Julie Gerberding quotes

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.
-- Julie Gerberding

#Common Sense #Pandemics #Able

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.
-- Julie Gerberding

#Thinking #Epidemics #Common Sense

People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.
-- Julie Gerberding

#Cancer #People #Healthy

Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked.
-- Julie Gerberding

#Needs #Over 50

There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.