Infectious Disease Quotes

“It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,” but here’s an epidemiological question: if you’re talking about outbreaks of infectious disease, isn’t fairly well contained essentially the same thing as not contained at all?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“What if you could start allowing your sensuality to permeate every aspect of whatever you're doing on a daily basis instead of compartmentalizing and isolating it from a majority of your daily affairs like it's some kind of an infectious disease?”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“[Europeans lived] in dense, settled populations- cities- where human & animal waste breeds vermin, like mice and rats and roaches. Most of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, though, didn't live in dense settlements, and even those who lived in villages tended to move with the seasons, taking apart their towns and rebuilding them somewhere else. They didn't accumulate filth, and they didn't live crowds. They suffered from very few infectious diseases.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“Due to the earned sick time policy of the USA, it is likely you are working with COVID-19 infected workers that do not have sufficient earned sick time to stay home and recover from their highly infectious disease!”
― Steven Magee