Sars Quotes

“When a disease insinuates itself so potently into the imagination of an era, it is often because it impinges on an anxiety latent within that imagination. AIDS loomed so large on the 1980s in part because this was a generation inherently haunted by its sexuality and freedom; SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion at a time when globalism and social contagion were issues simmering nervously in the West. Every era casts illness in its own image. Society, like the ultimate psychosomatic patient, matches its medical afflictions to its psychological crises; when a disease touches such a visceral chord, it is often because that chord is already resonating.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“When your daily mission involves scouring destruction trying to find anybody alive, a friendly snout and a soul who will do nothing but sit by your side is more powerful than any medicine. The dogs provided hope and a return to normalcy.”
― Wilma Melville, Hero Dogs: How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners

“Hello SARS, goodbye world.”
― Steven Magee

“La gente celebró el final del brote, pero los más informados lo celebraron con cautela. El SARS-CoV no se había ido, solo estaba escondido.
Podía volver.”
― David Quammen, Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“Invadimos los bosques tropicales y otros espacios salvajes, que albergan una enorme cantidad de especies de animales y plantas; y en el seno de estas criaturas, multitud de virus desconocidos. Talamos árboles; matamos animales o los enjaulamos para enviarlos a los mercados. Alteramos ecosistemas y provocamos que los virus escapen de sus huéspedes naturales. Cuando esto ocurre, los virus necesitan un nuevo huésped. A menudo, ese huésped somos nosotros.”
― David Quammen, Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“We know the hypocrites amongst us...it is either you Ṣòro Sókè or stay mute ”
― Olawale Daniel

“We know the hypocrites amongst us...it is either you Soro Soke or stay mute in the name of looking and sounding sane. Na vendor wey use their platform to voice out against injustice we go patronize when everything settles down.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Na vendor wey use their platform to voice out against injustice we go patronize when everything settles down.”
― Olawale Daniel

“An idle hand is not just the devil's workshop, it is the devil's abode. He lives rent free there. When you don't provide job opportunities, intentionally deprived them of quality education and steal their future opportunities, they will come for your peace of minds. The earlier our leaders understand that these people are not just agitating for an end to SARS but everything that surround deepening state of corruptions in the country, the better they act up and effect the change. This is just the beginning of a very long journey that will reshape the state of our nation.”
― Olawale Daniel

“The government never wanted to end the SARS injustice, that wasn't the agenda. The goal was to curb the spread of the protest across the country which they had achieved. But at what cost?”
― Olawale Daniel

“Aunque es un -acto de la naturaleza-, una pandemia se asemeja más a una guerra que cualquier otro desastre natural. Como en una guerra, cada día que pasa la destrucción es mayor, sin que exista la oportunidad de recuperarse.”
― Michael T. Osterholm, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

“Irónicamente, el modo en que hemos organizado el mundo para mejorar la eficiencia, el desarrollo económico y nuestro estilo de vida - los esfuerzos generalmente útiles para transformar el planeta en una aldea global- nos ha hecho más susceptibles que en 1918 a los efectos de las enfermedades infecciosas.”
― Michael T. Osterholm, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs