Melissa Shepherd

“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Imogen Lloyd Webber, The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime

“Epidemics afflict societies through the specific vulnerabilities people have created by their relationships with the environment, other species, and each other.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“In case you’re inclined to dismiss such obstacles as a vanished feature of the remote past, in the state of Florida in the year 2000 about 100,000 potential voters, the vast majority of them Democrats, were pruned off the list of registered voters. That pruning had an enormous effect on tipping the Florida 2000 presidential vote, hence the U.S. presidency,”
― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

“Echoing Fleming’s warning, theorists of emerging diseases argue that antibiotics are a “nonrenewable resource” whose duration of efficacy is biologically limited.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present