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“The worst extreme existential risk for humanity is not a nuclear war, the impact of a mega killer cosmic rock, nor a catastrophic disaster or a pandemic. The worst existential risk is humanity loosing its attraction towards risk. Without it, the stimulation to innovate would disappear, along with the progress of our civilization.”

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Book:From Asteroids to Pandemics : Living a World of Spontaneous Risks
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“Zoonotics seem to be in the news for one reason or another of late. From coronavirus (covid-19), bird flu (H5N1) and now monkeypox. So called scientists say there is no connection. Yet, the bird flu followed covid 19 hotspots. Monkpox shows snd attacks some of the same human areas as covid-19 does. Coincidence? I don't think so. It's time that we looked more closely at how these zoonotics may interact and why yet share a passion for the same areas of human sickness. Sure. there may be no connection, but what if there is? Yesterday and tomorrow have a connection to today. It's the same thing. We need to look at the areas that these zoonotics attack. What they protein source (food) is. Where they have been predominately found and how would the map overlay plot their outbreaks. The connection is there. We just need to look.”

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Author:Anthony T. Hincks
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“For Marin, the city had an almost medieval look. The effect was belied by the swarms of hopjets, and Taxi-Airs, and other aircraft, large and small. But his training had sharpened his ability to shut out extraneous material and to see essentials; and so, he saw a city pattern that had a formal, oldfashioned beauty. The squares were too rigid, but their widely varying sizes provided some of the randomness so necessary to achieve what was timeless in true art. The numerous parks, perpetually green and rich with orderly growth, gave an overall air of graceful elegance. The city of the Great Judge looked prosperous and long-enduring. Ahead, the scene changed, darkened, became alien. The machine glided forward over a vast, low-built, rambling gray mass of suburb that steamed and smoked, and here and there hid itself in its own rancorous mists. Pripp City! Actually, the word was Pripps: Preliminary Restriction Indicated Pending Permanent Segregation. It was one of those alphabetical designations, and an emotional nightmare to have all other identification removed and to find yourself handed a card which advised officials that you were under the care of the Pripps organization. The crisis had been long ago now, more than a quarter of a century, but there was a line in fine print at the bottom of each card. A line that still made the identification a potent thing, a line that stated: Bearer of this card is subject to the death penalty if found outside restricted area. In the beginning it had seemed necessary. There had been a disease, virulent and deadly, perhaps too readily and too directly attributed to radiation. The psychological effects of the desperate terror of thousands of people seemed not to have been considered as a cause. The disease swept over an apathetic world and produced merciless reaction: permanent segregation, death to transgressors, and what seemed final evidence of the rightness of what had been done: people who survived the disease . . . changed.”

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Book:The Mind Cage
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“Matheson instituía assim uma espécie de distopia vampiresca — sua obra servindo, inclusive, como modelo para muitos cenários de “apocalipse zumbi” que surgiriam na segunda metade do século 20, como o clássico A Noite dos Mortos-vivos (1968) de George A. Romero —, fazendo uso desse modo narrativo que se apropria de tensões do presente para imaginar os mais variados cenários de desastre alternativos ou futuros, bem como da figura do vampiro como agente propagador de doenças, o veículo para o apocalipse.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“Para um indivíduo em 2020, todavia, o vislumbre de uma pandemia como essa era fundamentalmente de ordem estética, experienciado com o distanciamento seguro oferecido pela arte — que não deixou de povoar o imaginário das últimas décadas com toda sorte de desastres biológicos e epidêmicos, não raramente fabricando cenários de epidemias vampirescas. Certamente, nosso olhar para essas narrativas ganha complexidade no que atravessamos coletivamente o momento de crise. Uma questão, porém, inevitavelmente se assoma: do que nos fala essa — nada sutil — insistência?”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“Tanto na arte como no real, a negação parece funcionar como desesperada, ainda que ineficaz, estratégia de tentar dissimular força e estabilidade, postergando até o último momento possível, inevitável, o enfrentamento real e direto da ameaça. Muitas vezes, porém, nesse ponto, as ações de contenção já não são eficazes ou suficientes. Aos olhos dessas figuras, agências ou instituições governamentais que insistentemente negam ou relativizam as evidências empíricas e/ou científicas, sua admissão pública e transparente parece significar também uma aceitação de submissão à ameaça, um dobrar de joelhos metafórico que simultaneamente veicularia vulnerabilidade — não só à ameaça, como também aos olhos de todos os que de fora veem. Agem como se a negação contínua da realidade fosse, em si, força suficiente capaz de deter o curso de eventos que independem totalmente de seu poder ou vontade. Pergunto-vos: quando é?”

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Author:Thiago Sardenberg
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“Na era da (des)informação e da globalização, espalhando-se em progressão geométrica tal como o compartilhamento instantâneo das notícias falsas em um mundo intrinsecamente conectado, os próprios patógenos podem percorrer, em poucas horas, o globo; já não mais se deslocam lentamente, pegando carona com os passageiros de caravelas ou caravanas, meses a viajar por mares, rios ou estradas. As pandemias do século 21 — reais e ficcionais— são intrinsecamente subjugadas ao lado perverso da era da internet e dos aviões a jato.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“A condição do vampirismo, pensada alegoricamente como doença infecciosa, seria de fato uma calamidade pública: tem alta infectividade, pois o contato direto com o vampiro é extremamente bem-sucedido em produzir novos vampiros, caso as vítimas venham a óbito; alta patogenicidade, pois sempre produz sintomas graves e sinais da doença, tais como os experienciados por Danny Glick; e alta virulência, sendo sua taxa de letalidade extremamente elevada.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“Se pensarmos na Europa Oriental e na Ocidental como corpos-organismos distintos, o Deméter poderia ser então o vetor que carrega o patógeno-vampiro e o introduz no corpo deste novo hospedeiro suscetível, sem qualquer imunidade. Nem mesmo o vetor, entretanto, resiste à virulência do patógeno; ele próprio sucumbe à doença que inocularia, funcionando também como uma espécie de microcosmo do que poderia vir a acontecer caso o vampiro obtivesse sucesso em sua replicação: um cenário de desastre apocalíptico.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“É possível verificar que conforme a doença-vampirismo se espalha pela narrativa, ela progressivamente a contamina com um discurso viral, que acaba permeando toda a ação: as pessoas se sentem “doentes”, “um lixo”, mas “deve ser só gripe”; se Mike está doente, “alguns acham que ele pegou alguma doença do Danny Glick”; quando a mãe de Danny Glick começa a ter sonhos estranhos com o filho morto, seu marido nota como “ela estava pálida [...] os lábios haviam perdido a cor natural, e ela ganhara olheiras escuras”; se a Casa Marsten fede, o odor “lembrava lágrimas, vômito e trevas”; se a indústria dos trailers cresce, ela cresce “como uma epidemia”; se o medo de uma doença indizível se espalha, “fantasias paranoicas podem ser contagiosas”; se o vampiro logra atacar-me, “não encosta em mim, fui contaminado”.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“Narrativas como Apocalipse V e The Passage evidenciam o papel da humanidade na perturbação e desintegração de ecossistemas, fatores que acabam por favorecer a criação de cenários pandêmicos, no que somos expostos a novos patógenos que se encontravam placidamente contidos, e que podem ser responsáveis pela emergência (ou reemergência) de doenças infecciosas potencialmente perigosas.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“The issue of reimbursement by payers is an important factor that should be discussed. Is it possible that if radiologists use AI to read scans, they’ll receive less reimbursement? Or to approach this from the other angle, if payers are reimbursing for the use of AI, will they pay radiologists less as a result? My discussions with insurance executives have shown that they don’t think this is likely. If the use of these technologies will improve patient outcomes and lead to fewer errors, there are benefits to them that will motivate executives to pay for them in addition to radiologists’ reading fees.”

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Book:AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
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“The revolutionary idea of contemporary art was that any object, any detail or fragment of the material world, could exert the same strange attraction and pose the same insoluble questions as were reserved in the past for a few rare aristocratic forms known as works of art. That is where true democracy lay: not in the accession of everyone to aesthetic enjoyment, but in the transaesthetic advent of a world in which every object would, without distinction, have its fifteen minutes of fame (particularly objects without distinction). All objects are equivalent, everything is a work of genius. With, as a corollary, the transformation of art and of the work itself into an object, without illusion or transcendence, a purely conceptual acting-out, generative of deconstructed objects which deconstruct us in their turn. No longer any face, any gaze, any human countenance or body in all this - organs without bodies, flows, molecules, the fractal. The relation to the 'artwork' is of the order of contamination, of contagion: you hook up to it, absorb or immerse yourself in it, exactly as in flows and networks. Metonymic sequence, chain reaction. No longer any real object in all this: in the ready-made it is no longer the object that's there, but the idea of the object, and we no longer find pleasure here in art, but in the idea of art. We are wholly in ideology. And, ultimately, the twofold curse of modem and contemporary art is summed up in the 'ready-made': the curse of an immersion in the real and banality, and that of a conceptual absorption in the idea of art.”

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Book:The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
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“Tal como a pandemia da covid-19, em sua lúgubre asserção das fragilidades e incertezas que nos cercam, essas narrativas vampirescas com viés epidêmico-apocalíptico convidam reflexões acerca do papel da humanidade na construção desses cruéis cenários de desastre; inevitavelmente, rumamos a um futuro pelo qual teremos de nos responsabilizar.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“Quammem afirma que vírus transmitidos pelo sangue precisam, em geral, de um vetor - frequentemente um inseto hematófago; aqui, uma capillaria — que deve “chegar em busca de uma refeição”: fica estabelecida uma intencionalidade. Tal como o inseto, o próprio verme é atraído pelo sangue humano, ampliando assim as condições possíveis de transmissão da síndrome vampiresca. Os resultados desse quadro de alta transmissibilidade e infectividade são imediatos, logo começando a ser sentidos sob a superfície da cidade.”

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Book:À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
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“In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.”

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Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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“There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.”

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Author:Annie Lennox
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“In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.”

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Author:Annalee Newitz
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“When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.”

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Author:Bill Gates
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“Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We're now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky
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“In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.”

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Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
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