Thirteen cases of mumps have now been confirmed at the State University of New York at New Paltz, an increase of four since last week.
At least eight members of the school’s intercollegiate swim team, along with one athletics staff member, are among the sick. Swim practices and workouts were suspended as a precaution at the onset of the initial outbreak.
Kinda scary – if the vaccine is out-moded, how will they sterilize our children?
The mumps, a highly contagious infection, appears to be spreading through Long Beach, Long Island. 36 cases have already been confirmed. Roseanne Colletti found out what might be causing it.
Authorities have said that the outbreak is most likely attributable to a new strain of the virus that is resistant to vaccines. Most of the people who contracted the virus had already been vaccinated.
Replace mumps with smallpox. Then put it in a college, right before winter recess sends everybody home.
One thing about colleges today – many are lazy when it comes to running undergraduate programs, especially STEM programs. Rather than assign work, and grade based on whether you met the standard, they throw ten times as much work at everyone as any human could handle. Scores on tests can be between ten and twenty out of a hundred, in classes with hundreds of students. Then they slap a bell curve on the accumulated scores at the end of the semester, and that is your grade. It is very stressful, as you always have work to do all of the time, and you never know what your grade will be until the last test is over, as a few outliers on the last test can throw the curve one way or anther. In essence you work constantly, and never know how you are doing.
When you cram together thousands of kids in that stressful an environment, with no sleep, endless work, poor eating habits, poor fitness habits, and all sorts of strange diseases from foreign lands to which they are immunologically naive, you have the makings of a pandemic.
Add to that the fact that we are importing every strain of every disease from all over the most disgusting parts of the third world and we are throwing them at our population again and again, until something interesting crops up. All it takes is one strain that is “interesting” enough. It is coming.
I am not an expert in virology, but I would imagine a virus, infecting a vaccinated population regularly, could easily be selected for a strain that either mutated or shed the gene for a surface antigen the vaccine is targeting. Given the high mutation rate common to viral DNA polymerases, that is really what viruses are designed to do.
I never thought about the return of viruses we defeated, but it is not impossible that an old enemy could re-emerge, and be totally unstoppable. If you lose the vaccine, you lose the ability to contain it, and every other aspect of the plan would be useless until a new vaccine was developed.
I think it a 90-95% chance the Apocalypse will have a pandemic phase, and it will be brutal. If it does, I would guess it is a 60% chance it will start in a university, and it is only that low because of our present immigration policy.
Trump is giving us some breathing room. Make use of it, and become self-sufficient enough that you could, if you had to, cut off contact with the outside world for an extended period.
Your life may depend upon it.
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My wife reports that Melania TRUMP will support Donald’s anti-vaccine stance as her advocacy as First Lady. There is a Huffington Post article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-gray/trump-autism-vaccine-_b_1424116.html reporting TRUMP’s anti-vaccination stance.
I am pretty sure the next pandemic will start in a gay bath house. So many are taking TRUVADA Prep (at a cost to taxpayers or others on their insurance plans of over $1000 per month per person) instead of using condoms, and PREP only protects against non drug resistant HIV. Of course that doesn’t rule out college students going to them.
Holy crap. That would jack up insurance premiums, especially as the healthy stop buying in, and all that are left are the gays, and a few dumb suckers who still get policies.