If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.
Atul GawandeOur reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.
Atul GawandeThis is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
Atul GawandeNo travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.
Atul Gawande