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“No mask no entry, but when you get inside you can remove your mask, you are a #COVIDIOT. There is no doubt about it.”
― Olawale Daniel

“...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of serious rupture from the past - social, political, economic and ideological.... Coronavirus has brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi: the Free virus that has made nonsense of international borders, incarcerated whole populations and brought the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. It casts a different light on the lives we have lived so far. It forces us to question the values we have built modern societies on - what we have chosen to worship and what to cast aside. As we pass through this portal into another kind of world, we will have to ask ourselves what we want to take with us and what we will leave behind. We may not always have a choice - but not thinking about it will not be an option. And in order to think about it, we need an even deeper understanding of the world gone by, of the devastation we have caused to our planet and the deep injustice between fellow human beings that we have come to accept.”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

“A person in public without a mask during a pandemic is a walking septic tank.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Profiteers were taking a hand and purveying at enormous prices essential foodstuffs not available in the shops. The result was that poor families were in great straits, while the rich went short of practically nothing. Thus, whereas plague by its impartial ministrations should have promoted equality among our townsfolk, it now had the opposite effect and, thanks to the habitual conflict of cupidities, exacerbated the sense of injustice rankling in men’s hearts. They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“None of us seem to have a purpose anymore but my search has become my purpose.”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, There is Us

“My intuition is on point. If something feels off, it’s off. If you’re not as nice as you pretend to be, you better believe I’ll sense it. I’m like a human lie detector. My no bullshit tolerance level is high. If 2020 has taught me anything it’s acceptance, patience and survival.”
― JefaWild

“Ateista imadijaše da prizna veliko ništa od svega svojega: krvi, misli i mesa. Htio je živjeti i vjerovaše da živi. I u klicanju životu zaboravi na smrt. Ponašaše se kao zaborav bluda, kao ekstaza mase. Ne bijaše dubok; bijaše širok. Plovio je površinom, plovio po sebi i rijetko, na mahove, od slučaja zaronjivao bi u sebe i odmah izmiljio na vrh. A sada mu postane jasno, da je zaražen; da ima u njemu nešto, što se ne da prosuditi iz njegovih pjesama, iz njegova smijeha i njegovih lakih razgovora. Bacil je u njemu, razorni bacil, što se baca blatom na rimu njegovu i ideju njegovu. On već nije pristupačan društvu, ne smije pljuvati na pod, ni piti ne smije iz druge čaše.”
― Janko Polić Kamov, Isušena kaljuža

“The human race was ill-prepared for such a calamity of events to unfold.”
― Asa Don Brown

“It is not only my heart that is heavy-laden, but the hearts and minds of so many who have been burdened by the tragedies, bloodshed, and woes of our time.”
― Asa Don Brown

“The reserves of emotion pent up during those many months when for everybody the flame of life burned low were being recklessly squandered to celebrate this, the red-letter day of their survival. Tomorrow real life would begin again, with its restrictions. But for the moment people in very different walks of life were rubbing shoulders, fraternizing. The leveling-out that death’s imminence had failed in practice to accomplish was realized at last, for a few gay hours, in the rapture of escape.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Here is a COVID-19 Commandment:

Greater love has no one than this, to lay on one's couch without friends.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“I want to die, because I want to live.”
― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“Some say that wearing a mask during the Covid pandemic will not prevent you from getting the virus nor giving it to someone else. If this is true, then why are doctors and nurses required to wear masks during surgical procedures?”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“No nos equivoquemos: estos brotes de enfermedad que se suceden uno tras otro están relacionados entre sí. Y no solo nos ocurren; constituyen las consecuencias imprevistas de todo aquello que hacemos.”
― David Quammen, Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“Dicho de la manera más tajante: las presiones y disrupciones ecológicas de origen humano sitúan a los patógenos animales en contacto creciente con las poblaciones humanas, al tiempo que nuestra tecnología y comportamiento diseminan esos patógenos cada vez más amplia y más rápidamente.”
― David Quammen, Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“¿Estará la próxima gran pandemia causada por un virus?
¿Saldrá de un bosque tropical o de un mercado en el sur de China?
¿Matará a treinta o cuarenta millones de personas?”
― David Quammen, Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“Vivimos en un planeta complicado, rico en organismos de una vasta variedad, incluyendo los virus, todos interactuando de forma oportunista, y aunque existen 7.000 millones de personas, el lugar no se ha hecho a nuestra conveniencia y para nuestro placer.”
― David Quammen, Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“Cualquiera que defienda el diseño inteligente en lugar de la evolución debería pararse a pensar en por qué Dios habría dedicado tal parte de Su inteligencia a diseñar los parásitos de la malaria.”
― David Quammen, Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“Desde luego, todo tiene un origen; y, dado que los seres humanos somos un primate relativamente nuevo, ha resultado lógico suponer que nuestras enfermedades infecciosas más antiguas han llegado a nosotros - transformadas, al menor ligeramente, por la evolución- procedentes de otros huéspedes animales.”
― 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

“Quando se sente de mais, o Tejo é Atlântico sem número, e Cacilhas outro continente, ou até outro universo.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego

“I have fever of comedyvirus.
I think thoughts.
I open eyes.
I'm not CIA, but I could be.
I'm not the Riddler, but I could be.”
― enlatia

“You know, girls, I was wondering how the end of the world will be.”
― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“Now you trigger me about the power of thinking.”
― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“I don't want to speak...”
― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“Smar: 'There is a common secret.' Angie: 'A common secret?' Smar: 'Yes, Angie, you may have psychic abilities, because the world is indeed ending.”
― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“Norma: 'It's a pandemic, Angie. It's serious.'

Angie: 'If it's not?'

Norma: 'What are you implying?'

Angie: 'We're not ancient humans, Norma. Humanity has evolved so much that nowadays nothing is impossible. Not even avoiding lethal infection from a virus.”
― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“El descubrimiento de la vacuna es uno de los sucesos más importantes no sólo en la historia de la medicina, sino también en la historia de las sociedades humanas.”
― Armando Aranda Anzaldo, En la frontera de la vida: Los virus

“The Covid pandemic could have been stopped within 90 days in America had we been fortunate enough to have a government that was in control of this country instead of corporations who did not want to lose money by shutting down the states and implementing a mandatory quarantine for everyone. This is why the pandemic affected the USA worse than other countries who do not allow corporations to control their politicians.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr