Lockdown Quotes

“But you don’t have to be very smart to figure that it only takes one infected individual from Vietnam, or Thailand, or Cambodia, to fly into London, New York or Paris, and you’ve sewn the seed. In this modern age of air travel, we really do live in a global village. And we’ve created the perfect incubators for breeding and passing on infection, in the buses and planes and underground trains we travel on. We were a human disaster waiting to happen.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“And if we don’t live life while we can, then we’ll die without ever having lived.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“In this modern age of air travel, we really live in a global village. and we have created ´the perfect Inkubators for breeding and passing on infection, in the buses and planes and underground trains we travel on. we were a human disaster waiting to happen.”
― Peter May, Lockdown i London

“If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“How sad that so much is judged on appearance, rather than substance.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“forever. Life might be hard. But death was so frighteningly easy.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.”
― Peter May, Lockdown

“With genetic manipulation you could quite easily create an efficiently transmittable version of H5N1. Swap a human receptor binding domain from a human flu virus into an H5 backbone and you’d improve transmission efficiency enormously. The last couple of years, they’ve been doing that in labs all over the world to try to anticipate what a human transmissible H5N1 would look like.”
― Peter May, Lockdown