I can say from experience that some people, if they hear you're writing a book about such things -- about scary emerging diseases, about killer viruses, about pandemics -- want you to cut to the chase. So they ask: "Are we all gonna die?" I have made it my little policy to say: Yes.
Yes, we are all gonna die. Yes. We are all gonna pay taxes and we are all gonna die. Most of us, though, will probably die of something much more mundane than a new virus lately emerged from a duck or a chimpanzee or a bat.
- David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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