Black Death at the Golden Gate Quotes

“Kinyoun believed in a future where scientists like him had rendered the concept of infectious disease moot, sparing the lives of innocent people. Instead, he had to face a present in which politics mattered more than honesty, and ignorance proved more powerful than medicine.”
― David K. Randall, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

“A man can no more be made into a rat-catcher by giving him a rat trap than he can become a soldier by being provided with a rifle.”
― David K. Randall, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague