“No disease any refugee might bring to America is as dangerous as the disease of fear, bigotry and hatred now being spread in America by Fox.”
Twitter post https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1056861868743188480 (29 October 2018) <br class="br">2010s, 2018
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Malik Peiris (1949) Sri Lankan scientist
Malik Peiris (2020) cited in " Number of Coronavirus Cases Passes SARS Outbreak https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/number-of-coronavirus-cases-passes-sars-outbreak/5265482.html" on Learning English, 29 January 2020.
Amira Roess researcher
Amira Roess (2020) cited in " The Wuhan coronavirus seems to have a low fatality rate, and most patients make full recoveries. Experts reveal why it's causing panic anyway. https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-unnecessary-panic-experts-say-2020-1?IR=T" on Business Insider, 31 January 2020.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Quarantine Speech (1937)
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”
Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
Remark (6 November 1605) as quoted in The Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 6 (1917); He is here invoking a version of a famous statement of Hippocrates, also translated as "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
1810s
“We've all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror.”
David Cronenberg (1943) Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor
on mortality
“This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.”
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
Context: The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain,—only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil.... This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Remarks by President Trump at MCCA Winter Conference https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/08/remarks-president-trump-mcca-winter-conference (8 February 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, February