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Quotes About Quarantine

The word "lazaretto" used to refer to a quarantine station where infectious patients could be isolated, but over time it came to mean a leprosy hospital.
~ Abraham Verghese
Going through a breakup in the middle of a pandemic/quarantine has really put a crimp on dating.
~ Becca Kufrin
What killed them?" Hathaway said simply, "Chicken pox.
~ Ray Bradbury
They've already got a name for it, by the way. They're calling it the Flare.
~ James Dashner
They got inside somehow. They're taking me to live with the other Cranks. It's for the best. Thanks for being my friends. Goodbye.
~ James Dashner
Shortly after the Kaiserin dropped anchor at Quarantine, the revenue cutter Manhattan pulled alongside
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Although the possibility of an even more virulent return of SARS remains uncertain as of the writing of this book, it appears that containment measures have been relatively successful and have prevented this tragic outbreak from becoming a true catastrophe. Part of the response involved ancient, low-tech tools such as quarantine and face masks.
~ Ray Kurzweil
You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it's sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it's that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.
~ Megan Ganz
Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese.
~ Joe Lauzon
Another Colorado town, Ouray, in the San Juan Mountains, went further. Ouray's sheriff hired guards to enforce a "shotgun" quarantine against outsiders. No matter: influenza got in anyway, infecting 150 townspeople. St. Louis, Missouri, barred soldiers and sailors on leave from entering the city.15
~ Albert Marrin
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.
~ Alex Berenson
This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.
~ Ann Veneman
In my pre-quarantine life, I would watch maybe, like, TV here and there, but I would never really fully commit to an entire movie because I can't really sit still for that long.
~ Julia Fox
There was one case in which a man in Level 4 suddenly began screaming, "Get me out of here!"—and he tore off his space suit's helmet, taking great gasps of air from Level 4. (They dragged him into a chemical shower and kept him there for a while.)
~ Richard Preston
diphtheria.
~ Kate Klimo
Si os quedáis en casa, no podéis ir a la iglesia. La santidad es la mejor medicina.
~ Ken Follett
The significance of the concept, Lloyd-Smith and his coauthors noted, is that if superspreaders exist and can be identified during a disease outbreak, then control measures should be targeted at isolating those individuals, rather than applied more broadly and diffusely across an entire population. Conversely, if you quarantine forty-nine infectious patients but miss one, and that one is a superspreader, your control efforts have failed and you face an epidemic.
~ David Quammen
One animal died and, after it tested positive for Reston virus, forty-nine others housed in the same room were euthanized as a precaution. (Most of those, tested posthumously, were negative.) Ten employees who had helped unload and handle the monkeys were also screened for infection, and they also tested negative, but none of them were euthanized.
~ David Quammen
Her sadness was ceaseless, but she kept it quarantined in a governable little quarter of her heart. It was the best she could do.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
During the lockdown, I used to eat a lot. Shalini and I watched a lot of TV shows, web series, and films on OTT.
~ Nithiin
I definitely wanted to take advantage of that, actually wanted to cut some pounds during quarantine and being at home and training at home.
~ Aroldis Chapman
I tried my hardest to stay fit and active during quarantine. I went to my PT office four to five times a week. I did weights, a stationary bike, a rowing machine, and lots of abs.
~ Jessica Long
During this quarantine I've been dieting, getting my weight down, getting in shape.
~ Dion Waiters
Everyone would like to believe that anyone possibly exposed to a serious contagious disease would comply with self-quarantine requirements. But history teaches a different lesson.
~ Sharyl Attkisson