Until Proven Safe Quotes

“Researchers have found that you can calculate the rise in a European country’s GDP based solely on increases in the detection rate of newly arrived, nonnative spiders.”
― Geoff Manaugh, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, from the Black Death to the Space Age

“Today’s world is structured by the ghosts of quarantines past; tomorrow’s is now taking shape all around us, built out of expedience and fear.”
― Geoff Manaugh, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, from the Black Death to the Space Age