Status Updates From Crisis in the Red Zone: The...

Chilling from 2019 - “The people in this story have been largely unnoticed by the world. Yet, for me at least, their actions and choices, their lives and deaths, seem to loom at the center of the most destructive rapid epidemic in anyone’s lifetime…Though this story focuses on a few people at certain moments in time, I hope it can be thought of as a window that looks at the future of everyone.”

dr. fauci being involved in both the ebola outbreaks of the mid-2010s and the covid-19 pandemic is insane. what a long and exhausting career that man has had.

it's very hard not to read this and think about the similarities to the original covid-19 pandemic.

what a humane and thought provoking way to explain how a virus can spread. preston uses key terms and phrases to show that love and humanity are exploited by disease by accident and cause harm in ways people did not dream of or mean to. what a kind way to should the blame solely on the soulless virus, not the people who are just trying to show love to those around them.

"ebola virus moves from one person to the next by following the deepest and most personal ties of love, care, and duty that join people to one another and most clearly define us as human. the virus exploits the best parts of human nature as a means of travel from one person to the next. in this sense the virus is a true monster."

"a liter of seawater contains more virus particles than any other form of life." thank you once again to richard preston for sentences that keep me up at night.