David Cornish > Quotes

“the Spanish press doesn’t have the same censorship that the French, German, and British governments have imposed on their newspapers.” “Correct again, Lilly,” said Noble. “You can add American government censorship of the press, also. As far as I can see, in A.I. Office communications regarding The War, there is no Spanish press censorship at all. There was even wide press coverage in the last week of Spanish King Alphonse XIII and his family’s serious illnesses with the grippe.” “Both the Allies and the Central Powers don’t want to let on there has been any reduction in fighting capacity. So, very little appears in their respective newspapers. The Spanish, however, are free to report all the various details of the influenza epidemic. It would be simple wrong to conclude the epidemic is ‘Spanish’ in origin.”
― David Cornish, 1918 The Great Pandemic

“Noble continued, “The administration’s new Sedition Act permits placement of a citizen in prison for twenty years if he or she ‘utters, prints, writes or publishes any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the government of the United States’. Just a simple criticism could land a citizen in jail for a very long time.”
― David Cornish, 1918 The Great Pandemic

“I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flu-enza.”
― David Cornish, 1918 The Great Pandemic

“President Lincoln had suggested in his second inaugural address. Referring to the American South, Lincoln said on March 4, 1865: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”
― David Cornish, 1918 The Great Pandemic

“They wondered if the end of The War had only set the stage for another future world catastrophe. Noble pondered if the dark “gifts” of influenza would continue for many decades to come.”
― David Cornish, 1918 The Great Pandemic