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> [“It had long been assumed that school-age children represented ideal vectors of infection, because they are among the preferred victims of seasonal flu, they meet and mingle on a daily basis, and their snot control has a tendency to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/it-had-long-been-assumed-that-school-age-children-represented-ideal/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

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## More by Laura Spinney

> [“It had long been assumed that school-age children represented ideal vectors of infection, because they are among the preferred victims of seasonal flu, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/it-had-long-been-assumed-that-school-age-children-represented-ideal/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

> [“It was the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, perhaps in the whole of human history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/it-was-the-greatest-tidal-wave-of-death-since-the-black-death-perhaps/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

> [“historian Alfred Crosby, who told the story of the flu in America, argued that democracy was unhelpful in a pandemic.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/historian-alfred-crosby-who-told-the-story-of-the-flu-in-america/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

> [“The Swiss-born architect known as Le Corbusier retreated to his rooms in Paris and sipped cognac and smoked through the worst of the pandemic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/the-swiss-born-architect-known-as-le-corbusier-retreated-to-his-rooms/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

> [“Between the first case recorded on 4 March 1918, and the last sometime in March 1920, it killed 50–100 million people, or between 2.5…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/between-the-first-case-recorded-on-4-march-1918-and-the-last-sometime/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

> [“Your best chance of survival was to be utterly selfish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/your-best-chance-of-survival-was-to-be-utterly-selfish/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

> [“wake. Conflict makes people hungry and anxious; it uproots them, packs them into insanitary camps and requisitions their doctors. It makes them vulnerable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/wake-conflict-makes-people-hungry-and-anxious-it-uproots-them-packs/)

[Laura Spinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-spinney/)

> [“Blue darkened to black. The black first appeared at the extremities–the hands and feet, including the nails–stole up the limbs and eventually infused the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-spinney/blue-darkened-to-black-the-black-first-appeared-at-the-extremities/)

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