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"You know, your face really is kinda close. And you could have COVID, or something."
— Dragona Joestar, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The JOJOLands
Music
"If you'd have told me a year ago
That I'd be locked inside of my home
I woulda told you, a year ago,
'Interesting, now leave me alone.'
Sorry that I look like a mess
I booked a haircut but it got rescheduled
Robert's been a little depressed
And so today, I'm gonna try just
Getting up, sitting down, going back to work
Might not help, but still, it couldn't hurt."
That I'd be locked inside of my home
I woulda told you, a year ago,
'Interesting, now leave me alone.'
Sorry that I look like a mess
I booked a haircut but it got rescheduled
Robert's been a little depressed
And so today, I'm gonna try just
Getting up, sitting down, going back to work
Might not help, but still, it couldn't hurt."
"Bunch of halfwits up in office
Half of us walkin' around like a zombie apocalypse
Other half are just pissed off and don't wanna wear a mask and they're just scoffin'
And that's how you end up catchin' the shit off 'em
I just used the same basket as you shoppin'; now I'm in a fuckin' casket from you coughin'"
Half of us walkin' around like a zombie apocalypse
Other half are just pissed off and don't wanna wear a mask and they're just scoffin'
And that's how you end up catchin' the shit off 'em
I just used the same basket as you shoppin'; now I'm in a fuckin' casket from you coughin'"
— Eminem, "The Adventures of Moon Man and Slim Shady"
"Quarantine, fuck this disease
I'd rather be on Star Tours or stuck at the DMV
Quarantine, nah, not for me
I thought that things were fucked up in 2019
Fuck quarantine!"
I'd rather be on Star Tours or stuck at the DMV
Quarantine, nah, not for me
I thought that things were fucked up in 2019
Fuck quarantine!"
— blink-182, "Quarantine"
"When we forget the infection, will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will"
If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will"
— Bring Me the Horizon, "Parasite Eve"
"Won't you be my little quarantine
Or is this the way it ends?"
Or is this the way it ends?"
— Twenty One Pilots, "Level of Concern"
"I say: Hey you!!
The vision will come true
We are the one for sure
The virus of a modern life
I say: Hey you!!
The world is insecure
Sickness will break through
When I'm dominating You!"
The vision will come true
We are the one for sure
The virus of a modern life
I say: Hey you!!
The world is insecure
Sickness will break through
When I'm dominating You!"
— Axxis, "Virus of a Modern Time"
"She said she'd been inside for too long
Well, no shit, could you tell us something new?"
Well, no shit, could you tell us something new?"
— Lovejoy, "You'll Understand When You're Older"
Web Animation
"It's the end of 2020, and I think I speak for everyone and their clenched sphincters when I say, "Thank fuck that's over with!" Let's hope, in 2021, we can start rolling things back to the previous, more stable state of Hell on Earth. We might've been living in constant fear of climate disaster and financial ruin under leaders that could barely display the minimum pretence of caring, but at least we could still hug our elderly relatives as they died gurgling on their flooded lungs."
Real Life
"We're going to need to look out for one another — not just in terms of containing the transmission of this virus, but also in terms of the economic impact that this is going to have on people who may well not be able to weather it."
"You wanna hear a funny story? So, uh, five years ago, I quit performing live comedy, because I was beginning to have, uh, severe panic attacks while on stage... which is not a great place to have them. So I, I quit, and I didn't perform for five years. And I spent that time trying to improve myself mentally. And you know what? I did! I got better. I got so much better, in fact, that in January of 2020, I thought, "You know what? I should start performing again. I've been hiding from the world and I need to re-enter." And then... the funniest thing happened..."
— Bo Burnham, Inside
"With the symptoms, [coronavirus] was kind of miserable, just the body aches and chills, that's not ever fun, but I guess I just really tried to keep my mind occupied."
— Jrue Holiday
"And I remember on the way home stopping in an Ace Hardware store. Sold out. Then I go to Home Depot. Sold out. And that's when I thought, like, 'Oh, my God, this is really happening right now.'"
"I had a friend of mine and he's one of these guys that spends a lot of time on the Net. He said, 'This is what’s happening in China and I want you to know it's on its way here.' And then [there was] that one doctor who sounded the alarm in China and was silenced and died of Covid-19. I was like, this is it."
— Susannah Melvoinnote
"I know I'm going to do the right thing just like I said before the bubble, so the question is, "Is everybody else going to do the right thing?" I hope everybody does the right thing and doesn't put anybody at risk, and I hope then we also have guidelines to make sure that doesn't happen. But it's definitely very concerning and I just hope everybody stays safe and I stay safe."
— Joel Embiid
"Don't shake hands, don't hug, keep your distance. … It was this weird pas de deux where we are maneuvering around each other to give each other room [to work]. I realized that I'm not an epidemiologist, but I am curious. I had been working 6½ years on Humboldt. I started digging into the 1918 pandemic, and I wasn't convinced that we were ever going to open this show."
— Eleanor Jones Harvey
"I have a friend who's a musician in Italy, and I was getting emails from him. And he was saying, 'You guys don't get it. All of this [entertaining] is going to stop.' And I said, 'Bro, it sounds like you're overreacting.' But the more I read, the more I realized this was going to be a real thing."
— Rhett Miller
"We long to return to normal, but normal led to this. To avert the future pandemics we know are coming, we must grapple with all the ways normal failed us. We have to build something better. I hope this piece, in showing what went wrong, helps."
— Ed Yong
"In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries climb even higher. Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death."
— Dr. Pedros
"These are the five stages of coronavirus. First, you have denial: 'I'm not going to get the coronavirus. Only old people, Chinese people, and people on cruise ships get that.' Second, anger: 'Why isn't there any toilet paper at Target? Is everybody nuts?' Then bargaining: 'All right, there's no Purell. Maybe I'll make my own hand sanitizer with Jergens and vodka.' But next comes depression: 'I can't believe they canceled Coachella. I'm not gonna get to see Carly Rae Jepsen for a year now!' And finally, acceptance, which is, 'Hey, you know what? If I die, maybe I'll get to meet Prince.'"
"A few months ago was great. It was the holidays, I was drunk on eggnog, I was watching 'Cheer.' I was falling in love with Baby Yoda! I was looking — I was looking forward. I was looking forward to impeaching the president. Remember that feeling? We're going to get Trump! Bolton's going to testify, and the Senate's going to do the right thing! It's only March, and 2020 has done the impossible: made me nostalgic for 2019."
"First, the World Health Organization has officially just declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Which yes, is scary for us humans, but from corona's perspective, it’s pretty cool, yeah? Because for a virus this is like going platinum, you know? It is a big day. Started from the Wuhan, now we're here."
"Coronavirus! Coronavirus! I'm telling you, shit is real! Shit is getting real!"
— Cardi B
"Now we have something that indeed turned out to be my worst nightmare."
— Dr. Anthony Fauci
"(clears throat) Fuck. (smiles with eyes rolled over sarcastically as credits roll)"
