We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill.

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.