As professors started a fresh semester, most added one new line their syllabuses - I dub it "The Mandatory, Worst-Case-Scenario Swine Flu Mention." It was the same lecture in every class - "If you think you have Swine Flu, stay home. No really, we can't penalize you."
But really, is this Swine Flu, or H1N1 Virus a real concern?
It appears so. According to a New York Times article, Students at Washinton State University, about 2,000 of them to be more precise, have confirmed cases of Swine Flu. Lovely.
May 8 was case No. 1 of the Swine Flu in Gainesville, and the numbers have increased since then. I must think, if it were to break out anywhere, crowding 88,000 sweaty people into the Swamp on Saturday seemed like the prime germfest.
My advice: take advantage of the antibacterial hand sanitizer placed throughout campus that the University is spending our ever-decreasing dollars on.
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I actually just made a post on this same topic. It's scary to think that 2,000 students had the swine flu in one college campus. On the positive side, most of those students said the flu only lasted about three days.
ReplyDelete"It" happens to me once a semester too. I always go to the infirmary and most times they offer me no help. But, I've been taking vitamin-c and washing my hands like never before. Swine 09 will not defeat me!
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