Quotes About Pandemic

No one has developed active tuberculosis.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.

Everyone is calling it the Spanish flu, even though it didn't originate in Spain. No one is sure where it came from. Spain has been the first to speak openly about it in its newspapers.

The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

This disease, called COVID 19, will be over much sooner than you think. Christian people all over this country, praying, have overwhelmed it.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

The world of contagion is so underestimated!

In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the Indians and the English in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, lost two daughters, Fear and Patience, now married to Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence, respectively.

Smallpox, polio, Ebola, anthrax

There were invisible killers called "diseases" that broke the body down.

The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever, and bacterial meningitis—by a quirk of evolutionary history, all were unknown in the Western Hemisphere.

what scientists call zoonotic disease was little known in the Americas.

Missouri nonprofits have been a lifeline for many Missourians throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

Psychologists point out that the pandemic, like most transformative events, has the ability to bring out the best and the worst in us.

We will see how contact tracing has an unequalled capacity and a quasi-essential place in the armoury needed to combat COVID-19, while at the same time being positioned to become an enabler of mass surveillance.

fighting a pandemic does not require a substantial change of the underlying socio-economic model and of our consumption habits. Fighting environmental risks does.

in June 2020, researchers Supriya Garikipati (University of Liverpool) and Uma Kambhampati (University of Reading) confirmed the finding statistically,12 arguing that female-led countries, such as Germany, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and indeed New Zealand, did better than most in responding to the pandemic.

Simply put, what we expose as facts or opinions are moral choices that the pandemic has laid bare. They are made in the name of what we think is right or wrong and therefore define us as who we are.

The year 2020 has been the 1918 Spanish Flu, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s all rolled into one.

Kids in the future will have to endure an entire school year of History class devoted just to the year 2020.

It's no longer 5:00 somewhere — it's 2020 everywhere. Drink up!

Hey 2020 — What the heck are murder hornets? And how much toilet paper do I need to buy?