Julie

“Whereas a benign, seasonal virus produced a transient cytokine response and localised, superficial damage to the lung, the 1918 variety produced a strong, prolonged cytokine response and damage that was severe and deep.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

“It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“Cordon sanitaire. Isolation. Quarantine. These are age-old concepts that human beings have been putting into practice since long before they understood the nature of the agents of contagion, long before they even considered epidemics to be acts of God. In fact, we may have had strategies for distancing ourselves from sources of infection since before we were strictly human.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

“Most of the death occurred in the thirteen weeks between mid-September and mid-December 1918. It was broad in space and shallow in time, compared to a narrow, deep war.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World