Time to break it off with your undergrad piece with the sniffles.
Main campus has been sending emails today warning of a mumps outbreak on the Cal campus. I'm sorry, but WTF? Don't you have to prove you got an MMR vaccine to be enrolled? And am I so old that the children of the Jenny McCarthy vaccines-give-you-autism generation are in college?
Luckily the symptoms of mumps are really distinct:
Fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and loss of appetite, swollen or tender salivary glands under the ears, jaw or under the tongue, on one or both sides of the face.
Oh so it's exactly like having the flu or a cold or allergies or any other mundane illness? Awesome.
Like most viral infections at U.C., I'm betting this originated at Kips.
Luckily the symptoms of mumps are really distinct:
Fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and loss of appetite, swollen or tender salivary glands under the ears, jaw or under the tongue, on one or both sides of the face.
Oh so it's exactly like having the flu or a cold or allergies or any other mundane illness? Awesome.
Like most viral infections at U.C., I'm betting this originated at Kips.
posted by Jackie O at 1:05 PM
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"On one or both sides of the face, of one or both faces of your body if you have two heads."
Can we talk for a minute about the undergrad invasion in Zeb? I'm really sick of sitting outside on the benches in the rain because undergrads are (singularly) occupying the booths or saving a table for a sorority/fraternity meeting that they maybe just made up to keep me from sitting with them.
haha funny title to your post, Jackie O. We should treat Zeb like a frat party on the first week of the school year. Only freshmen girls get in.
Yeah, I've been wondering how this can be addressed. Literally watched a dude sit at a four person table for three hours and then remark to his friend who finally joined him, "Yeah, this is the first time I've been here, do you know where the bathrooms are?"
There's not enough room for all of the law students. However, I'd doubt the administration can do anything about it (like ID check during the day) because that seems against policy. Maybe have 3/4ths of the place reserved for law students/faculty? Ideas?
Something needs to be done. They're bringing the mumps in here to infect all of our beaten-down immune systems.
Whenever I see someone with a graphing calculator I almost lose it. Maybe the mumps outbreak is a good excuse to restrict undergrad access.
That, or the fact that left side stall #2 in the main floor girl's bathroom currently looks to be the scene of a massacre, a birth, or both. Bloody footprint and all.
No, Jackie O, you did not have to prove you got an MMR vaccine to enroll.
You know who does have that requirement? HARVARD.
Suckers.
We all know Boston's a pit, so it makes sense for Harvard to take greater precautions.
Don't MMR vaccines cause mental retardation?
Now people are reserving tables in Zeb with pieces of paper.
WHAT NEXT????
Hint: What paper?
Just for clarification, research hasn't debunked any relationship between vaccines and autism, just the doomsday claims of a clear-cut link between the two. The most plausible theory is that toxins are an environmental trigger for autism, including many ingredients in vaccines and just about everything else we're exposed to.
". . . research hasn't debunked . . ."
Well, since we are being clear, I think now might be a good time to bone up on how burdens of proof work. It isn't the role of research to debunk an unproven conjecture; it's the conjecturer's role to prove it in the first place.
To argue otherwise is to put yourself in a camp with the intelligent design folks.
So, are you saying the Flying Spaghetti Monster didn't design us all in his noodley image, Patrick? Because prove it.
Hey Patrick, 5:47 here. Thank god science doesn't adhere to an adversarial system. My second sentence below refers to "the most plausible theory" because that is what many autism experts have found during their research and is currently (of course, might change tomorrow) the theory most experts support. While autism research isn't nearly far enough along to be "proving" anything, the autism-toxin link isn't a baseless conjecture. The research is out there, for the happy debunking by burden of proof snobs everywhere. Unless you want to wait until science "proves" what causes autism. You might be waiting awhile.
I bet undergrads would move if you asked them to.
I'd take that bet, McTwo. Because I have. And they won't.
Did you follow it up with "Fuck you, yes you wil1!"?
Anyway, It always irritate me when my allergies continues a couple of days. It makes me want to stay at home until weekends.
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