Dr. Erin Mears: Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat.
Dr. Ian Sussman: [Disparagingly to Alan] Blogging is not writing. It's graffiti with punctuation.
Dave: My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage. Then she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap. And then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. I mean, she's overreacting, right?
Dr. Erin Mears: Not really. And stop touching your face, Dave.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: But right now, our best defense has been social distancing. No hand-shaking, staying home when you're sick washing your hands frequently.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: When was the last time you ate something that didn't come from a vending machine?
Dr. Erin Mears: [Hesitantly] Taco Bell
Jory Emhoff: [Rhetorically] Why can't they invent a shot that keeps time from passing?
Dr. Ellis Cheever: You know where this comes from, shaking hands? It was a way of showing a stranger you weren't carrying a weapon in the old days. You offered your empty right hand to show that you meant no harm.
Alan Krumwiede: It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.
First Haz-Mat: [Putting a body in a mass grave] When did we run out of body bags?
Second Haz-Mat: Two days ago.
Dr. Erin Mears: The average person touches their face 2- or 3000 times a day. Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs water fountains, elevator buttons and each other. Those things become fomites.
Alan Krumwiede: Godzilla, King Kong, Frankenstein all in one.
Dr. Erin Mears: How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms.
Dr. Ellis Cheever: How are you?
Dr. Erin Mears: It's good, we just finished setting up the...
Dr. Ellis Cheever: I didn't ask what you're doing, Beth, I asked how you are. So... how are you?
