Infection Quotes

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“It is obvious that human (and non-human) diseases are evolving with an unusual rapidity simply because changes in our behaviour facilitate cross-fertilization of different strains of germs as never before, while an unending flow of new medicines (and pesticides) also present infectious organisms with rigorous, changing challenges to their survival.”
― William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples

“Once upon a time there was much talk of the apathy of the masses. Their silence was the crucial fact for an earlier generation. Today, however, the masses act not by deflection but by infection, tainting opinion polls and forecasts with their multifarious phantasies. Their abstention and their silence are no longer determining factors (that stage was still nihilistic); what counts now is their use of the cogs in the workings of uncertainty. Where the masses once sported with their voluntary servitude, they now sport with their involuntary incertitude. Unbeknownst to the experts who scrutinize them and the manipulators who believe they can influence them, they have grasped the fact that politics is virtually dead, and that they now have a new game to play, just as exciting as the ups and downs of the stock market. This game enables them to make audiences, charismas, levels of prestige and the market prices of images dance up and down with an intolerable facility. The masses had been deliberately demoralized and de-ideologized in order that they might become the live prey of probability theory, but now it is they who destabilize all images and play games with political truth.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“...if human numbers increase, the rate of infection also increases.”
― William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples

“Here also I ought to leave a further remark for the use of posterity, concerning the manner of people’s infecting one another; namely, that it was not the sick people only from whom the plague was immediately received by others that were sound, but the well. To explain myself: by the sick people I mean those who were known to be sick, had taken their beds, had been under cure, or had swellings and tumours upon them, and the like; these everybody could beware of; they were either in their beds or in such condition as could not be concealed.

By the well I mean such as had received the contagion, and had it really upon them, and in their blood, yet did not show the consequences of it in their countenances: nay, even were not sensible of it themselves, as many were not for several days. These breathed death in every place, and upon everybody who came near them; nay, their very clothes retained the infection, their hands would infect the things they touched, especially if they were warm and sweaty, and they were generally apt to sweat too.”
― DEFOE, DANIEL

“Given President Trump’s extensive history of lies, it is unlikely the public will ever get to know how serious his COVID-19 infection was unless he dies.”
― Steven Magee

“You may be attached only to your family members but what's the guarantee that they are not attached to people outside the family? And those outsiders are attached to even more outsiders. This chain of Karmic infection goes on and on. So your fate is linked with an entire beehive. Detach!”
― Shunya

“There only needed to be a few words spoken for them to behave like an infection, tainting a person's mind.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Communities have their own stories, and those stories are contagious.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

“The ignorant hope they never get COVID-19 and the wise prepare for a possible future infection.”
― Steven Magee

“Keep calm and isolate.”
― Steven Magee

“If you feel that your employer is putting your health at serious risk of COVID-19 infection, you should file an OSHA complaint and consider resigning your job.”
― Steven Magee

“2020 was the year the medical profession conveniently ignored over a century of cross infection techniques.”
― Steven Magee

“My body is ready for COVID-19 infection, is yours?”
― Steven Magee

“Lung ventilators are the COVID-19 treatment and isolation combined with taking supplements prior to infection is the prevention.”
― Steven Magee

“Cities pour forth a virus. Humans are infected and told to build cages that no one should want to live in. Or cities are a pyramid scheme: everyone is supposed to be there, I am an everybody, so I will move there and bring two others, who will bring two more.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“COVID-19 infection was karma for President Trump.”
― Steven Magee

“The first wave of COVID-19 infection tends to be mild, it is the second wave that happens several days later that can be fatal.”
― Steven Magee

“After President Trump announced his ‘China Virus’ infection, I had quotes written for his possible death by COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee

“You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' ... 'Yes, but you hae it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor

“Are you taking an old vaccine for a new mutant of COVID-19, or are you optimizing your body for infection?”
― Steven Magee

“Do you want to know the best, most effective transmitter of contagion known to man?'

Edgerton asks me this with a pinprick of mad light dancing in each iris.

'It's love. Love is the absolute killer. Care. The milk of human kindness. People try so hard to save the people they love that they end up catching the contagion themselves. They give comfort, deliver aid, and in doing so they acquire the infection. Then those people are cared for by others and they get infected. On and on it goes.' He shrugs, 'But that's people. People care too much. They love at all costs. And so they pay the ultimate price.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“Folic acid deficiency is associated with viral infection vulnerability.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“Fish oil supplements appear to reduce the risks from COVID-19 infection.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“Long term malnutrition can be the outcome of a viral infection.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“If you use sex whenever you want with whomever you want, you’re treating it like trash, like it means nothing. Imagine a piece of duct tape. It’s got a purpose, it’s designed to stick to something, but if you stick it to the dog and rip it off, then the floor, the wall, the toilet, the neighbor’s pit, after that, it just won’t work right anymore. When you finally find your spouse and try to connect with them, there will be all sorts of crud in the way. It might be a physical STD, or it could be an emotional one that spreads through your relationship and life like an infection.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Are your bites infectious? A stray cat bit a servant at the Agam estate when I was young. She lost her whole arm."

Quinton's face rises, something like indignation flushing over him. "I am a prince of Massa'eve, not a stray cat, Kitterny.”
― Alex Lidell, Dragons' Bride

“I developed the nutritional supplements in the book ‘COVID Supplements’ to enable me to have a milder COVID-19 infection. When I was eventually infected with COVID-19, it was the mildest flu-like sickness I ever had!”
― Steven Magee

“After a few years of fearing a COVID-19 infection, I was eventually infected and it was the mildest flu-like sickness I have experienced! I was taking the nutritional supplements in the book ‘COVID Supplements’ at the time.”
― Steven Magee