Flu Quotes

“She murmured, We could always blame the stars. I beg your pardon, Doctor? That's what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed. I pictured that, the celestial bodies trying to fly us like upsidedown kites. Or perhaps just yanking on us for their obscure amusement.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

“COVID-19, are you going to be naughty or nice to me?”
― Steven Magee

“The Spanish Influenza did not originate in Spain. In fact the first recorded case was in the United States, in Kansas, on March 9th, 1918. Beware the Ides of March. But because Spain was neutral in World War I, it did not sensor reports of the disease to the public. To tell the truth then, is to risk being remembered by its fiction. Countless countries laid blame to one another. What the US called the Spanish Influenza, Spain called the French Flu, or the Naples Soldier. What Germans dubbed the Russian Pest, the Russians called Chinese Flu.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“I have been laid up with intentional flu.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“Behave like there is a pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“There's no such thing as flu and cold season.
There's only vitamin D deficiency season.”
― Gruff Davies

“25th December 2020 will go down in history as the Christmas of death.”
― Steven Magee

“One virus away from having your life wrecked!”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to sicken your population, you isolate them.”
― Steven Magee

“2020 was the year of hoarding.”
― Steven Magee

“There were lots of dead people on Halloween 2020.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello Seattle, hello COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 is the killer of the elderly and the obese.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 plays ‘Russian Roulette’ with healthy people.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 is the caring virus, as it spares the children.”
― Steven Magee

“A different narrative structure is needed, and a new language. Piqued by their humiliation, scientists went on to furnish us with a vocabulary of flu – with concepts such as immune memory, genetic susceptibility and post viral fatigue. Couched in this new language – not a poetic language, perhaps, but one that allowed tou to make predictions, and to test them against the historical reports – disparate events began to appear connected, with other, once obvious links atrophied and died (no, it wasn’t the punishment of an angry god; yes, it was at least partly responsible for the subsequent wave of melancholy). The pandemic took on a radically new shape: the one we recognize today.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

“I had diarrhea and abdominal pain. It started in January 2018 after a strange non-contagious flu-like sickness during the new year. I was not the only one to get this sickness, it was one of the worst flu seasons in modern history.”
― Steven Magee

“The USA was not prepared for a pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“I think the government is going to keep the country open regardless of how many people COVID-19 puts in hospital. It seems they have lost the battle with the mutants!”
― Steven Magee

“Every day was like Halloween during the pandemic with everyone walking around like masked bandits!”
― Steven Magee

“It is a social duty to focus your expertise onto fixing a global pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Silence does not improve the world.”
― Steven Magee

“Summit Brain is comparable to Long COVID.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“Is Monkeypox the new COVID-19?”
― Steven Magee

“Is Monkeypox the second pandemic?”
― Steven Magee

“If COVID-19 was the first pandemic, Monkeypox the second, what is the third pandemic going to be?”
― Steven Magee

“After a nasty flu-like sickness went through my family in 2015, I developed chronic daily headaches. I had them for years until my brain was scanned with a CT X-Ray scanner. A few weeks later they disappeared and I have never seen them since!”
― Steven Magee

“It seems the government was marketing Coronavirus as the Flu for decades!”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 was the mildest flu-like sickness I have ever had. I was taking the supplements in the book ‘COVID Supplements’ during it.”
― Steven Magee

“It is clear in some people that COVID-19 is comparable to a lobotomy.”
― Steven Magee