This metaphor is often used with SOCIETY IS A BODY
- 1 an infectious idea
- 2 the contagion of democratic ideas
Conveying The Belief Is Spreading The Disease
- 1 the children were infected with ideas about socialism
- 2 they quarantined the Japanese
Note: There are two ways of looking at the believers: they can be eitherinfected victims or dangerous spreaders of infection.
Controlling The Belief Is Containing The Spread Of The Disease
- 1 we have to take extreme measures and amputate the gangrenouslimb before it kills our nation
Tony Moy, Susan Sontag