Quotes About Contagion

No one knew why some people were superspreaders:

There was no vaccine in sight; and the number of infections required to achieve herd immunity could be calculated, as it was a simple function of the reproductive rate. (The formula was 1 ? 1/R0, where R0 was the reproduction number.)

when each infected person infected more than three others, or when the society's rate of compliance fell below 30 percent.

As communicable disease spreads through social networks, Richard reasoned, you had to find ways to disrupt those networks.

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

The risk of policy contagion could be magnified if a new funding arrangement were agreed between Argentina and the IMF before a comprehensive policy framework is developed that addresses fundamental investor concerns.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion ...

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

Stupidity ain't a virus, but it's sure is spreadin' like one. - Sandy Cheeks

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Unfortunately, stupidity, like rust and weeds and lies and mould, tends to spread.

Insanity is catching.

a chain reaction of five-year-olds vomiting

Humans are social animals, highly susceptible to emotional contagion. Training, logic, and intelligence are often no match for the power of groupthink.

Research indicates unrealistic optimism and related traits—including the sense of invulnerability and the blunting cognitive style—may be associated with low levels of pandemic-related anxiety and nonadherence to hygiene and other health recommendations. People who score highly on such traits would be particularly likely to spread contagion during a pandemic.

Superspreading is especially likely to occur for diseases that have substantial incubation periods

everyone at that time still believed you could infect everyone else 'asymptomatically

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

No one has developed active tuberculosis.