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Question to my colleagues and the twitterverse in general:
Looking back at these past 11 months, what are key quotes about #covid19, the pandemic and the response that have really stuck with you?
Any language will do (if you give a translation).
Looking back at these past 11 months, what are key quotes about #covid19, the pandemic and the response that have really stuck with you?
Any language will do (if you give a translation).
“Science is our exit strategy” from @JeremyFarrar is one of the sentences that my mind keeps circling back to.
"Be fast, have no regrets... If you need to be right before you move, you will never win” from @DrMikeRyan is another one. (He has said a lot of memorable things, but this one really struck a chord.)
The entire segment is worth watching:
The entire segment is worth watching:
Interesting to see so many other people mentioning that Ryan quote. He said that on 13 March. How different the world might look today, if people had really taken those words to heart.
“There’s no point in sugar-coating this. The U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic is a raging dumpster fire.”
These opening lines of a @HelenBranswell piece will also stay with me. They were all the more powerful if you know Helen.
These opening lines of a @HelenBranswell piece will also stay with me. They were all the more powerful if you know Helen.
And yes, if you listen to Helen you are usually ahead of the rest. Was true before this pandemic and it’s true now. https://twitter.com/jonathanmkaye/status/1329537350855233537
“The pandemic is a portal” from Arundhati Roy, particularly the last two paragraphs is something else that’s stuck in my mind.
https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
Would have been shocked if there were no @edyong209 quotes. No-one has chronicled the horror and tragedy of this year in more beautiful sentences, I’d argue.
And this one is a great example: Four simple words that tell a powerful truth about the pandemic. https://twitter.com/jordan_law21/status/1329533838654119940
And this one is a great example: Four simple words that tell a powerful truth about the pandemic. https://twitter.com/jordan_law21/status/1329533838654119940
And yes, for Germany @c_drosten’s “Ich habe besseres zu tun” (“I have better things to do”) is hard to beat.
It encapsulates a lot of the media/science/politics dynamic that has played out here. Plus, it just makes me smile every time I see it.
It encapsulates a lot of the media/science/politics dynamic that has played out here. Plus, it just makes me smile every time I see it.
Interesting how simple many of the sentences were that really resonated with people.
I remember not getting through to my friends in February until I started saying “The world will look very different in a few weeks” and for some reason that did the job. https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1329542823402737680
I remember not getting through to my friends in February until I started saying “The world will look very different in a few weeks” and for some reason that did the job. https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1329542823402737680
That’s sound advice from @BillHanage but it’s a bit of a shame to not have a quote with a simile or a metaphor from him. No one does those quite like him... https://twitter.com/harlingsbooks/status/1329535973076709377
“Disruption to everyday life might be severe” from @DrNancyM_CDC incl. her comments about talking to her children were mentioned by several people.
That was really powerful public health messaging. And the US had way too little of that afterwards.
That was really powerful public health messaging. And the US had way too little of that afterwards.
Yes!
(And the silence/silencing of the CDC has been one of the great tragedies of this pandemic in the US. This is what the agency was built for. So much expertise that went to waste...) https://twitter.com/drtomfrieden/status/1329551641708793856
(And the silence/silencing of the CDC has been one of the great tragedies of this pandemic in the US. This is what the agency was built for. So much expertise that went to waste...) https://twitter.com/drtomfrieden/status/1329551641708793856
