Covid 19 Quotes

“The history of epidemics in human populations has always been closely connected to cities. From the Great Plague of Athens (430 BC) to the COVID-19 pandemic, cities have played a unique role in the lives of epidemics that affect human populations. The increased population density provides the pathogen with a vastly increased likelihood that during a given infectious period, an infected individual will make contact with a susceptible individual. Overcrowding and urban poverty also directly affect other epidemic processes, e.g. attracting vectors who thrive on the byproducts of urban human existence.”
― Chris von Csefalvay, Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python

“It is possible that we are already living through the twilight of democracy; that our civilization may already be heading for anarchy or tyranny, as the ancient philosophers and America's founders once feared; that a new generation of clercs, the advocates of illiberal or authoritarian ideas, will come to power in the twenty-first century, just as they did in the twentieth; that their visions of the world, born of resentment, anger, or deep, messianic dreams, could triumph. Maybe new information technology will continue to undermine consensus, divide people further, and increase polarization until only violence can determine who rules. Maybe fear of disease will create fear of freedom.

Or maybe the coronavirus will inspire a new sense of global solidarity. Maybe we will renew and modernize our institutions. Maybe international cooperation will expand after the entire world has had the same set of experiences at the same time: lockdown, quarantine, fear of infection, fear of death. Maybe scientists around the world will find new ways to collaborate, above and beyond politics. Maybe the reality of illness and death will teach people to be suspicious of hucksters, liars, and purveyors of disinformation.

Maddeningly, we have to accept that both futures are possible. No political victory is ever permanent, no definition of "the nation" is guaranteed to last, and no elite of any kind, whether so-called "populist" or so-called "liberal" or so called "aristocratic," rules forever.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

“A man, perhaps an inch shorter than Andrei, sensing the height comparison, slowly passed him. The stranger still wore an N-95 mask. The pandemic ended three years ago, but Andrei identified why masks were still worn by others. While millions had died from COVID-19, others silently and ashamedly rejoiced in the virus’ demands. The requirement of face masks made it mandatory for everyone to cover more than half of their face. And for those who disliked their face, they, for nearly two years, had the chance to go out in the world and not be ugly for once. Suddenly, while they were not beautiful, they were not hideous. Neutrality can do so much for someone. This period was like a gift for those with horrid teeth, large features, cystic acne, injuries, scarring, and discoloration. Never before were so many people looked straight in the eyes. Masks were some people’s only chance to show who they were. And now, when the pandemic had ended, they were back in the shadows. Large groups of people, however, as Andrei had seen, still wore them, beneath the excuse that the virus could still return. "I would love to kiss one of you on the cheek, he thought.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“If COVID-19 was the first pandemic, Monkeypox the second, what is the third pandemic going to be?”
― Steven Magee

“I suspect COVID-19 hypoxia research will bring about the closure of the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“The connection between [work] effort and reward got broken during the pandemic.”
― Julia Pollak

“Florida has a history of reclassifying death data.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida has a history of disappearing the dead.”
― Steven Magee

“Come to Florida...and lose everything!”
― Steven Magee

“Florida: Bad at COVID-19, hurricane evacuations and health and safety.”
― Steven Magee

“Due to my work in high altitude professional astronomy, the COVID-19 shutdown was not an issue for me as I was used to social isolation.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 increased during the Hurricane Ian aftermath in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“The covid regimes were popularized in present day democracies and were most dystopian and oppressive in places that once believed themselves "free and democratic." If there is indeed a reckoning to be had, democracy must not be spared from the conversation.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“It is wholly justified to label vaccine passports as draconian, coercive, and one of the most dangerous government interventions in human history; an intervention that undermined voluntary consent to medical procedures and threatened the core principles of what it means to be an autonomous human being.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“Ammonia poisoning can cause fluid filled lungs.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“COVID-19 is very similar to high altitude diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“During the USA COVID-19 lock down, some landlords were rendered homeless because they could not legally evict the tenants from their own home.”
― Steven Magee

“Most people with COVID-19 pick up some damage from it. It may not be apparent, but it is there.”
― Steven Magee

“Morrison was acutely aware of the limitations of the country's constitutional power-sharing arrangements. For example, he was worried about the potential for massive civil disobedience against health orders, and he privately complained to Hunt that if he wanted to send in troops from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to marshal compliance, the states could order their police forces to arrest the soldiers for breaking state laws.”
― Simon Benson, Plagued

“A declaration under section 475 [of the Biosecurity Act would give] Hunt as Health minister exclusive and extraordinary powers. He, and only he, could personally make directives that overrode any other law and were not disallowable by parliament. He [would have] authority to direct any citizen in the country to do something, or not do something, to prevent spread of the disease. One of the only things he couldn't do would be to give directions to a state or territory government official.
Morrison knew that if he asked the Governor-General to invoke section 475, he effectively would be handing Hunt control of the country.”
― Simon Benson, Plagued

“These [swift COVID responses to health resourcing and homelessness] and other examples are important reminders of the power of government. There is an opportunity for parties like ours to argue that big problems shouldn't be consigned to the too-hard basket. Imagine if the same force of will was applied to Indigenous disadvantage, domestic violence or any of the myriad other social ills on which precious little progress has been made for decades. Imagine if governments applied the same 'fierce urgency of now' approach to difficult issues that have previously been relegated to the realm of the intractable. (pp.103-104)”
― Chris Bowen, On Charlatans

“So please... put down your smartphones, turn off your TVs... Spend time with your family. Call a loved one. Just take a break. Focus on the good things that you have in your life---the blessings...A threat like this can break us down, or it can make us truly appreciate the many blessings that we do have... It's okay to be uncertain, but at the same time, we can also pour ourselves into our families, into our neighbors, and into our communities. People are afraid, and they're worried. And some may be losing hope. But my message to you is hang in there. We will get through this, and we will persevere...If there's anything that we all can rally around today, it's that we all have a common enemy---and that's this virus.”
― Kristi Noem, Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland

“During the pandemic, I couldn’t bring myself to leave the house, terrified I would find myself standing in the doorway of an ICU room, watching the doctors press their whole weight on the chest of my mother, my sisters, my children, terrified of the lurch of their feet, the lurch that accompanies each press that restarts the heart, the jerk of their pale, tender soles, terrified of the frantic prayer without intention that keens through the mind, the prayer for life that one says in the doorway, the prayer I never want to say again, the prayer that dissolves midair when the hush-click-hush-click of the ventilator drowns it, terrified of the terrible commitment at the heart of me that reasons that if the person I love has to endure this, then the least I can do is stand there, the least I can do is witness, the least I can do is tell them over and over again, aloud, I love you. We love you. We ain’t going nowhere.”
― Jesmyn Ward

“L-Carnitine L-Tartrate is linked to improved outcomes in COVID-19 infections.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“I have had red liver spots on my skin for many years now.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Maggie knew she was a Boomer. Born 1950. A life bookended by World War 2 and Covid-19. Seventy years and now this damnable scythe of death.”
― Anne Schlebusch, Bloomer

“We must come to the table knowing that there is no barangay, city, province, government, or country that can solve the COVID-19 crisis alone. More than ever, human collectivism is key. We have prepared for wars even before they happened. Maybe this time, we ought to work together, collectively and purposively, regardless of race, ethnicity, political affiliation, and religion, in finding a solution to a threat that has shaken our very definition of civilization.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“Friends have asked me how I felt about not being able to wear the “Sablay.” At first, it was frustrating. However, I realized that graduation was not diminished by the absence of celebration or custom. It is momentous for the value it espouses. To me, it was the fulfilment of a promise and an opportunity to aid in rebuilding a country slowed down by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“When white people catch a cold, they say, black people get pneumonia.”
― Michael K. Williams, Scenes from My Life: A Memoir

“Boosting up the nutritional status of the body during a pandemic is common sense.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements