"Until you get burned, you don’t know how hot the fire is."- Dr. Jacob Lemieux, lead author of an early study that revealed how transmissible COVID-19 is, in regards to the early assumptions that COVID couldn't be airborne.
Quoted in Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid. Extracted from a longer quote: “It was received wisdom based on how previous respiratory viruses had behaved. The global public-health infrastructure has egg on its face. There’s a component of human nature that, until you get burned, you don’t know how hot the fire is.”
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