Anne Applebaum Quotes

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

If you really want to isolate a disease, then you have to isolate the people who carry it.

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

Pandemics happen. They have happened three times in the last 100 years…. They change the politics, the culture, the society. Pandemics do that …. Pandemics reshape history …. The likelihood of a pandemic is almost certain…. The consequences are worldwide.

If any [news]paper should print in gigantic type, "The cholera has come," I believe half its readers would be in collapse before tea time.

The Health Commissioner has given us good advice. It's smarter to keep the COVID patients separate. You don't want a person who goes into a hospital with one situation developing COVID because they happened to be exposed.

I don't want to be in the clubhouse, if I have the coronavirus or something like that, coming into the clubhouse and spread to everybody, that's not good, right?

As the COVID-19 situation evolves, we need to make sure we have enough medical professionals to care for people in need.

Covid-19 may be here for a long time.

The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.

Every ounce of resources in our state should be focused on defeating the hidden enemy we all have in common: COVID-19.

In the face of Covid-19, everything else seems a side-issue.

We must remember that coronavirus is a new disease, which presents new challenges.

Public health officials, researchers and states rely on CDC data to track the coronavirus and make quite literally life and death decisions.

I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I think to doubt Golding's view of human nature.

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

State and local governments in New Jersey are a critical line of defense in the effort to respond to COVID-19.

If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people.

Coronavirus has challenged daily life in Britain in a way not seen for generations.

Confronting a dangerous pandemic requires containing spread wherever it is reasonably possible. Sensible measures such as universal masking, testing and widespread and rapid contact tracing can help. The best way to protect the vulnerable is to try to protect everyone.

I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can't do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I'm buying.

Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature - for yes, to me, such a thing exists, and history indeed proves it.

When there's a revolution in Egypt, you can't really get depressed about not knowing what happens after you die. When there are millions out on the streets, that's not the time to start panicking about contracting swine flu.