“Photos look better without masks” – Lungs look better without COVID.”

Janis Irwin, 09.11.22

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“The Pandemic has broken people into two groups. Those who are right most of the time but wish they were wrong, and those who have been wrong most of the time but think they’re always right.”

Keith Muise, Oktober 2022

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“It drives me nuts. At no point in medical school did they ever teach us that “pathogens make you stronger”. It’s wild and horrifying for me watching how easy it is for pseudoscientific nonsense to go mainstream these days.”

Dermatologin Dr. Lisa Iannattone, 11.10.22

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“I think its BS. I do not know who came up with the stupid idea that infections are good for you. (Except for very special cases, where infection with a specific mild pathogen may prevent infection with a related specific severe pathogen.)”

Virologe Florian Krammer, 04.10.22

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“Wien hat die Hochquellleitung gebaut, um uns gegen Pandemien zu schützen, die im Wasser übertragen wurden. Gegen absurde Argumente haben sich visionäre Geister durchgesetzt und wir alle sind dankbar. Niemand von uns trinkt aus dem Donaukanal, wenn Durchfall gerade selten ist.”

Molekularbiologe Ulrich Elling, 10.10.22

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“People minimize Covid because they don’t think they will be the ones suffering irreversible harm from it, and they don’t give a shit about people who are harmed by.

Molekularbiologin Denise Dewald, 08.10.22

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“I’m still astonished at the fact that, despite the wealth of evidence showing the long-term health risks from even ‘mild’ cases of Covid, as a country we have just shrugged, accepted mass infection, and acted as if the still-cautious among us are the odd ones. It’s madness.”

Mehdi Hasan, 19.08.22 (NBC)

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„The entire pandemic response has been shaped around accommodating the distress intolerance of privileged people.“

Hannah Davis, eine LongCOVID-Forscherin und selbst Betroffene, 07.05.22

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“The blame lies far less with individual scientists who were wrong than with an administration that sought out fringe viewpoints that echoed its own wishes, and elevated these above the overwhelming consensus of the public health community.”

Carl T. Bergstrom, Biologieprofessor, 17.12.20

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“Some lessons from around the world: the most successful global leaders in fighting coronavirus have communicated clearly, displayed empathy, and always favored science over politics.”

Christiane Amanpour, CNN, 05.05.2020

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“It is very hard to tell people what they need to hear based on facts. Not what they want to hear based on emotion.”

Devi Sridhar, Public-Health-Professor, Universität Edinburgh, 22.11.2020

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"There is a growing sense, fuelled by both the administration & the media, that we have vaccines, we have Paxlovid, so the crisis is over. But Long Covid doesn't fit that convenient narrative."

My commentary tonight on #longcovid & the millions suffering:pic.twitter.com/wCPez9Cwy0

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 23, 2022

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“people are tired and they just want to get back to the happy normality of 2019, which is very appealing. I want that too—I’m just not willing to step away from science to find comfort.”

Colin Furness, Epidemiologe in Kanada, 17.01.23