Quotes by Norman Swan - Page 1

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic and it won't be the last.
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Pandemic
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You don't want your family to be another cluster of COVID-19.
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Cluster
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Most of us would be happy with one big idea implemented in our lifetimes.
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Big Idea
Implemented
Lifetimes
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Kids need other kids, they need school. But we also don't need an epidemic.
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Epidemic
Other Kids
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We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.
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Antibiotics
Hiv
Rid
Treatments
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You see, your nose is the respiratory front line. It's the warning beacon that invaders have overwhelmed your first response defenders.
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Defenders
Overwhelmed
Respiratory
Warning
Beacon
Front Line
Nose
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My role as a broadcast journalist is to analyse information and pass it on to the community. And also as a journalist to hold governments to account.
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Journalist
Account
Analyse
Broadcast
Governments
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I've been interested in pandemics for decades. I even made a four-part series for Channel 4 UK and SBS called 'Invisible Enemies' which screened in the early 90s.
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Decades
Invisible
Channel
Screened
Uk
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Ian Carroll grew up in Melbourne, went to Carey Grammar and then studied political science at Monash University during the turbulent years of anti-Vietnam rebellion.
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Grammar
Melbourne
Political Science
Rebellion
Turbulent
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I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the biology of the bug is the least of it.
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Arise
Biology
Always Where Me
Bug
Fascinates
Feature
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So chlorination, essentially bleaching, does work for SARS CoV-2, it does kill the virus. But the question is whether there's enough chlorine in the pool water to do that, and of course it's very diluted.
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Pool
Diluted
Essentially
Virus
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I have often wondered what it was like to be in the trenches during war, knowing that tomorrow morning you have got to go over the top and that you might die and what a surreal feeling, in addition to fear, that might be.
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Surreal
Trenches
Addition
Wondered
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I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.
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Bleeding
First Place
Staunch
Surgeon
Surgical
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When people hear the phrase 'risk-taker', two images come to mind. One is the negative idea of someone who's reckless and unpredictable, sometimes succeeding and at other times crashing out. The other is a more positive view of a fearless innovator who takes risks when others nervously stand back.
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Reckless
Unpredictable
Crashing
Images
Innovator
Phrase
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There's never been a pandemic which hasn't exploited a change in the way we live - politics, social structure, technological change, warfare, it's always something that we humans have done or are doing that's tilled the soil for the pandemic and the solution to it is usually social, behavioural and political.
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Soil
Technological
Warfare
Change Politics Always
Change Politics Political
Behavioural
Exploited
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