“Whether plagues are managed quickly doesn't just depend on hardworking doctors and scientists. It depends on people who like to sleep in on weekends and watch movies and eat French fries and do the fantastic common things in life, which is to say, it depends on all of us. Whether a civilization fares well during a crisis has a great deal to do with how the ordinary, nonscientist citizen responds. A lot of the measures taken against plagues discussed in this book will seem stunningly obvious. You should not, for instance, decide diseased people are sinners and burn them at a literal or metaphorical stake, because it is both morally monstrous and entirely ineffective. But them a new plague crops up, and we make precisely the same mistakes we should have learned from three hundred years ago.” ScientistsSinnersPlaguesBurned At The Stake Book:Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them Source: Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All who worship him are abominable idolaters and Christ did not rise again from death to life nor did he ascend into heaven.” BurnedHeresyBlasphemyHereticAscensionKilledUnitarianExecutedBurned At The Stake Author:Matthew Hammond