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“The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.”
― Neil Pasricha, The Book of Awesome

“I had to stop him from arresting an old lady who let her dog urinate against the fire hydrant that was in front of Burgerville headquarters.
"You'll blow our cover."
"But what if there is a fire?"
"The fire department will come and put it out," I said.
"With what?"
"Water," I said.
"Not from that hydrant," Monk said. "It's inoperable."
"No, it's not," I said. "It can still be used."
"There is urine all over it," Monk said. "no fireman would dare touch it, nor would any other human being."
"Firefighters run into burning buildings," I said."They aren't going to care about some dog pee on a fire hydrant."
"They would if they knew," Monk said. "We should call and warn them. Call Joe right now. He can get the word out faster than we can."
"Every fire hydrant in the city has dog pee on it, Mr. Monk. It's how dogs mark their territory. I can guarantee you that every male dog that has passed that hydrant has pissed on it."
He looked at me, wide eyed, "No."
"It's what dogs do," I said. "The firefighters knows this."
Monk swallowed hard. "And they still use the hydrants?"
"Of course they do."
"They are the bravest men on earth," Monk said solemnly.”
― Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk in Outer Space

“Carlos, your mysophobia does affect my health. I feel freer 鈥� more alive, more vivacious and, ironically enough, healthier 鈥� if I鈥檓 not constantly made to worry about germs and unhealthy choices. Whether it鈥檚 for a moment of spontaneous kissing in a phone booth or eating an occasional hamburger鈥bsessing about your health doesn鈥檛 actually make you healthier. The fact of the matter is, Carlos, our bodies are decaying at every moment, regardless of what we do. Living is bad for your health.鈥�

鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 have to be.鈥�

鈥淢aybe if you live in an antiseptic bubble specially designed by the CDC it doesn鈥檛. But in a place like New York City, you鈥檙e fighting a pointless battle. You can either embrace the dirt and the germs as part of the risky joy of living in an exciting, overpopulated metropolis, or you can spend lots of mental real estate obsessing over whether you touched a few extra microbes when you got on the subway.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“Frowning, she warmed up the scone she鈥檇 saved for Callum. 鈥淚 could get a pop-up camper to pull behind my truck. When I get a truck, of course. That way, I could move my house every few days and experience different views.鈥�

鈥淵ou鈥檙e not living in a camper.鈥� He bit into the scone and chewed angrily.

鈥淓xcuse me.鈥� The female half of the eavesdropping couple took a step closer to the counter. 鈥淎re there any more of those scones?鈥�

Lou pasted a regretful smile on her face. 鈥淪orry, no. This was the last one.鈥�

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 see it in the display.鈥� The woman scowled. 鈥淚 specifically asked if you had any scones, and you said you were out.鈥�

鈥淚 had to hold this one back. It was defective.鈥�

鈥淒efective?鈥� Her eyes darted between Lou鈥檚 expression of fake sympathy and the small bite of scone Callum hadn鈥檛 eaten yet. 鈥淚t looked fine.鈥�

鈥淚 licked it.鈥� Lou heard Callum choke on the last piece of scone, but she couldn鈥檛 look at him or she would start laughing. If his airway was blocked, he was going to have to give himself the Heimlich.

The woman鈥檚 suspicious expression didn鈥檛 ease. 鈥淲hy did you let him eat it then?鈥�

鈥淥h, his tongue is in my mouth all the time,鈥� Lou said sweetly, and Callum鈥檚 coughing increased. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 think he鈥檇 mind my germs.鈥�

With a sound of frustration, the woman stormed out of the shop, followed closely by the male half of the couple. The bells rang merrily as the door closed behind them, as if celebrating their absence.

鈥淪parks,鈥� Callum rasped once his coughing died down. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e going to kill me.鈥�

鈥淏ut what a way to go.鈥�

鈥淭rue.鈥� Grabbing her hand, he pulled her closer and leaned across the counter. 鈥淣ow give me some of those germs.”
― Katie Ruggle, Hold Your Breath

“The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that.
Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“New Rule: Instead of killing 99.9 percent of germs, Lysol has to just go ahead and kill them all. Why spare the remaining 0.1 percent? So they can return to their villages and tell the other germs, "Dude, do not mess with Lysol"?”
― Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.”
― James Clerk Maxwell

“Also I could hear Amanda鈥檚 voice: Why are you being so weak? Love鈥檚 never a fair trade. So Jimmy鈥檚 tired of you, so what, there鈥檚 guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they鈥檙e wilted. But you have to act like you鈥檙e having a spectacular time and every day鈥檚 a party.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.”
― James Coburn

“I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into their cars. I went to doctors鈥� offices and touched magazines that had been touched by sick people.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.”
― Warder C. Allee, Social Life of Animals

“But germs are the most common snowflake starters and lie at the heart of 85 percent of all flakes.2
So next time you gaze at a lovely snowstorm, inform your favorite germophobe or hypochondriac that living bacteria sit shivering in most of those untold billions of flakes. Then hand him or her a snow cone or organize a catch-a-snowflake-on-your-tongue party.
Once the ice-forming process is started, more molecules join the party, and the crystal grows. It can ultimately become either a snowflake or a rough granule of ice called by the odd name graupel. A snowflake contains ten quintillion water molecules. That鈥檚 ten million trillion. Ten snowflakes鈥攚hich can fit on your thumb tip鈥攈ave the same number of molecules as there are grains of sand on the earth. Or stars in the visible universe. How many flakes, how many molecules fashioned the snowy landscape I was observing as I drove east? It numbed the brain.”
― Bob Berman

“Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs.”
― James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

“I was afraid of anyone in a costume. A trip to see Santa might as well have been a trip to sit on Hitler's lap for all the trauma it would cause me. Once, when I was four, my mother and I were in a Sears and someone wearing an enormous Easter Bunny costume headed my way to present me with a chocolate Easter egg. I was petrified by this nightmarish six-foot-tall bipedal pink fake-fur monster with human-sized arms and legs and a soulless, impassive face heading toward me. It waved halfheartedly as it held a piece of candy out in an evil attempt to lure me into its clutches. Fearing for my life, I pulled open the bottom drawer of a display case and stuck my head inside, the same way an ostrich buries its head in the sand. This caused much hilarity among the surrounding adults, and the chorus of grown-up laughter I heard echoing from within that drawer only added to the horror of the moment. Over the next several years, I would run away in terror from a guy in a gorilla suit whose job it was to wave customers into a car wash, a giant Uncle Sam on stilts, a midget dressed like a leprechaun, an astronaut, the Detroit Tigers mascot, Ronald McDonald, Big Bird, Bozo the Clown, and every Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, Chip and Dale, Uncle Scrooge, and Goofy who walked the streets at Disneyland. Add to this an irrational fear of small dogs that saw me on more than one occasion fleeing in terror from our neighbor's four-inch-high miniature dachschund as if I were being chased by the Hound of the Baskervilles and a chronic case of germ phobia, and it's pretty apparent that I was--what some of the less politically correct among us might call--a first-class pussy.”
― Paul Feig, Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence

“I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.”
― Arthur Kornberg

“Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps on the hour. Our devoted mother would pass them for us, after first running them in a hot oven to kill the germs. They came into our hands curled up and warm, sometimes scorched like toast.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“They sat on fold-up beach chairs and were talking about polio. The older ones, like his grandmother, had lived through the city's 1916 epidemic and were lamenting the fact that in the intervening years science had been unable to find a cure for the disease or come up with an idea of how to prevent it. Look at Weequahic, they said, as clean and sanitary as any section in the city, and it's the worst hit. There was talk, somebody said, of keeping the colored cleaning women from coming to the neighborhood for fear that they carried the polio germs up from the slums. Somebody else said that in his estimation the disease was spread by money, by paper money passing from hand to hand. The important thing, he said, was always to wash your hands after you handled paper money or coins. What about the mail, someone else said, you don't think it could be spread by the mail? What are you going to do, somebody retorted, suspend delivering the mail? The whole city would come to a halt.”
― Philip Roth, Nemesis

“If virulent germs were normal in the atmosphere, how numerous would be the occasions for their penetration independently by way of the lungs and intestinal mucus! There would not be a wound, however slight, the prick even of a pin, that would not be the occasion for infecting us with smallpox, typhus, syphilis, gonorrhoea.”
― Pierre Jacques Antoine B茅champ

“The general public, however intelligent, are struck only by that which it takes little trouble to understand. They have been told that the interior of the body is something more or less like the contents of a vessel filled with wine, and that this interior is not injured 鈥� that we do not become ill, except when germs, originally created morbid, penetrate into it from without, and then become microbes.

鈥淭he public do not know whether this is true; they do not even know what a microbe is, but they take it on the word of the master; they believe it because it is simple and easy to understand; they believe and they repeat that the microbe makes us ill without inquiring further, because they have not the leisure 鈥� nor, perhaps, the capacity 鈥� to probe to the depths that which they are asked to believe.

鈥揚reface to La Th茅orie du Microzyma, as quoted in B茅champ or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology By Ethel D. Hume on page 304 [prefaced by Pasteur: Plagiarist, Imposter: The Germ Theory Exploded By R. B. Pearson], ISBN# 978-1-46790-012-6, 2011”
― Pierre Jacques Antoine B茅champ

“Paige claimed my toothbrush!鈥� I complained to no one in particular.
鈥淚 forgot to pack my own,鈥� Paige replied defensively, 鈥渘ot that I have one. I haven鈥檛 brushed my teeth in months, Tess, I ran away, remember? So I deserve it.鈥�
鈥淵ou could use mine,鈥� Jayden called, only half sarcastic.
鈥淲hat makes you think that has any potential to be a solution? And just because we鈥檙e dating now doesn鈥檛 mean there鈥檚 no such thing as germs!鈥� I called back.”
― Maya Bode, Tess Embers

“The bacterium Escherichia coli (E. Coli) takes about twenty minutes to divide. So after one hour, one E. Coli cell has turned into eight. After only six and a half hours, there will be over a million bacteria!”
― Jennifer Gardy

“The word antimicrobrial is a sales feature in soaps, skin lotions, cleaning supplies, food perspectives, plastics, and even fabrics. However, only about one hundred species of microbes are known to actually cause diseases in humans; the vast majority of the thousands of species that inhabit us do not cause any problems, and, in fact, seem to come with serious benefits.”
― B. Brett Finlay, Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World

“Beyond the cultural differences that must be bridged in any international effort, combined with factors of national politics, priorities, and values, we continue to grapple with the essential paradox of public health that began our discussion: when the system is working effectively, it is a silent venture and there are relatively few outbreaks of disease. These very successes lead most of us down a complacent path of false confidence, apathy, and assumptions that the endless dance is over. To complicate matters further, microbes themselves are hardly monolithic or permanently settled beings. For every attempt we make to destroy or weaken them, they respond with an equal and opposite force. The goal of both sides is to assume leadership of the evolutionary waltz ever in progress.”
― Howard Markel, When Germs Travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed

“The COVID-19 world is on its way back to the 1800鈥檚, when people were fearful of germs and viruses.”
― Steven Magee

“If virulent germs were normal in the atmosphere, how numerous would be the occasions for their penetration independently by way of the lungs and intestinal mucus! There would not be a wound, however slight, the prick even of a pin, that would not be the occasion for infecting us with smallpox, typhus, syphilis, gonorrhoea.

--as quoted in B茅champ or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology By Ethel D. Hume on page 308 [prefaced by Pasteur: Plagiarist, Imposter: The Germ Theory Exploded By R. B. Pearson], ISBN# 978-1-46790-012-6, 2011”
― Pierre Jacques Antoine B茅champ

“He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as disease, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims. The bacteria are results of disease. In the course of time we will be able to show perfectly that the microscopical little fellows are not the disease cause, but that they come after, that they are scavengers accompanying the disease, and that they are perfectly harmless in every respect. They are the outcome of the disease, are present wherever the disease is, and by the microscope it has been discovered that every pathological result has its corresponding bacteria. The Old School consider these the cause, but we will be able to show that disease cause is much more subtle than anything that can be shown by a microscope. We will be able to show you by a process of reasoning, step by step, the folly of hunting for disease cause by the implements of the senses.

鈥揟he Art and Science of Homeopathic Medicine, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., Page 22, 2002. [Originally published as Lectures on Hom艙opathic Philosophy in 1900.]”
― James Tyler Kent, A.M., M.D.

“This world lives on lies
Feeding itself with flesh
that denies and dies
and decayed into the loam: fresh

This terror preys upon earth
Saving itself with human-worms
that creep inside weapons鈥� mirth
in the name of curing demonic germs

From the poem "Covid...”
― Munia Khan

“As long as we remain a planet of 7-plus billion, close-packed and widely traveled, with a love for meat, eggs, and milk, infections will be a force in our lives.”
― Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

“Trade and collaboration, the transfer of goods, people and ideas, are central to supporting health systems as well as developing and rolling out tests, treatments, and cures. We cannot respond effectively alone. We have to respond collectively.”
― Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease