Quotes About Pandemic

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

In the United States, influenza death rates were so high that the average life span fell by twelve years, from fifty-one in 1917 to thirty-nine in 1918. If you were a "doughboy"—slang for an American soldier—you had a better chance of dying in bed from flu or flu-related complications than from enemy action.

When the next pandemic comes, as it surely will someday, perhaps we will be ready to meet it. If we are not, the outcome will be very, very, very dreadful.

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A system that is amoral and imbecilic enough to compel selling Amazon's stock because it invested in protecting its workers during a pandemic is not one that we should trust to steward the overall health and well-being of our economy.

But other countries have gone the other way. Australia is now building internment camps for Covid quarantine. It calls them "centers for national resilience."14 George Orwell would be proud.

In August 2020, the Centers for Disease Control reported that 25 percent of adults ages eighteen to twenty-four said they had seriously considered suicide during the month of June. That figure was more than double the percentage who had reported doing so in a similar survey in 2018. These young adults are at essentially no risk from the coronavirus.

No, the reason we initially agreed to lockdowns was to "flatten the curve," which is a polite way of saying "to prevent coronavirus patients from collapsing our health-care system." But the system was never in danger of collapsing, lockdowns or no.

it's still listed as a COVID death.

Lockdowns have failed as badly as the experts warned us they would, for precisely the reasons those experts spent their careers predicting. But the hysterics have learned nothing from the last four months.

But a "case" of coronavirus refers only to a positive test result showing someone has been infected. It does not mean that a person will become sick – much less that he or she will be hospitalized, need intensive care, or die.

Worldwide, it is almost certain that more people over the age of 100 than under 30 have died of SARS-COV-2. Many more children die of influenza than coronavirus; in the 2019-20 flu season, the Centers for Disease Control received about 180 reports of pediatric flu deaths. It has received 19 reports of coronavirus deaths in children under 15 so far.

Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that were at the top of everyone's agenda in the wake of 9/11 and the brief anthrax scare. At the time, some very big investments were made into precisely those issues, especially into scientific research.

I think everybody during the pandemic has gone one of two ways: either you haven't paid attention to your fitness at all and you're at home and stuffing your face. Or, like a lot of people, you have become goal-oriented because you can focus on different things.

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

Our collective scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continues to grow.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.