Back to school?!

[The Germanator]

Originally Posted by ZebraRampage

I'm in my last semester of undergrad, so I'll be graduating in December. I'm taking my Civil Engineering Senior Design and the focus is on Transportation, Traffic Management and Operations, ArcGIS Mapping, and my writing class is Intro to Econometrics.

As for the swine flu, there have already been a few cases of it on my campus. The precautions so far are just to wash your hands a lot, and make sure you cover your mouth and nose when you cough and sneeze. I hope that they're taking other precautions than just that..

For young, healthy adults, Swine Flu isn't any worse than your run of the mill flu, so I wouldn't be all that worried on a campus filled of presumably young, healthy adults. I had some kind of wicked two day flu right around when the H1N1 hubbub started. I don't know if it was swine flu, but if it was it wasn't that bad.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by The Germanator

For young, healthy adults, Swine Flu isn't any worse than your run of the mill flu, so I wouldn't be all that worried on a campus filled of presumably young, healthy adults. I had some kind of wicked two day flu right around when the H1N1 hubbub started. I don't know if it was swine flu, but if it was it wasn't that bad.

I don't believe they're necessarily worried that it will harm young, healthy adults in the long run. Methinks they're more worried about it spreading like wildfire because nobody's built up any immunity to it.

And a college in which (oh, let's say) 75% of the students and faculty members are out sick for a week+ on end isn't going to operate very effectively.
Not to mention there are bound to be some students who aren't as healthy as most young adults...
And I'm not sure how it works at other colleges, but at least 2 of my instructors are decrepit old men. So won't somebody please think of the decrepit old men?