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Mumps in the modern First World.
So, nine students at Northeastern University have mumps. At LEAST nine students. One of whom has been hospitalized.
I seem to remember that, when I went to college, I had to present proof that I'd had my measles-mumps-rubella shots. Do they no longer require that? When did they stop?
If all nine of these students are from third-world countries where childhood vaccinations are unavailable, then I have deep sympathy for them.
If any of them are from odd religious cults that forbid modern medicine, then I'm weirded out, but somewhat tolerant.
If any of them are from normal, middle-to-upper-class American backgrounds and their parents chose not to have them vaccinated, well, I kind of hope that this results in sterility for them. It's not fair to THEM that they have moronic parents, but their genetic line needs to be truncated, anyway.
EDITED TO ADD: According to what people are saying, I forgot the actual most likely situation.
If the mumps vaccine doesn't take in 5% of cases, well, shit happens. Looks like I was being all angry and hostile at PEOPLE when I should have been angry and hostile at STATISTICS. Could well be that all those people DID have all their shots. And that 95% of the people who were exposed to the mumps were immune. And that those nine people who got sick are just that other 5%.
Now I feel kinda bad at ill-thinking people who were most likely just the victims of statistics.
I seem to remember that, when I went to college, I had to present proof that I'd had my measles-mumps-rubella shots. Do they no longer require that? When did they stop?
If all nine of these students are from third-world countries where childhood vaccinations are unavailable, then I have deep sympathy for them.
If any of them are from odd religious cults that forbid modern medicine, then I'm weirded out, but somewhat tolerant.
If any of them are from normal, middle-to-upper-class American backgrounds and their parents chose not to have them vaccinated, well, I kind of hope that this results in sterility for them. It's not fair to THEM that they have moronic parents, but their genetic line needs to be truncated, anyway.
EDITED TO ADD: According to what people are saying, I forgot the actual most likely situation.
If the mumps vaccine doesn't take in 5% of cases, well, shit happens. Looks like I was being all angry and hostile at PEOPLE when I should have been angry and hostile at STATISTICS. Could well be that all those people DID have all their shots. And that 95% of the people who were exposed to the mumps were immune. And that those nine people who got sick are just that other 5%.
Now I feel kinda bad at ill-thinking people who were most likely just the victims of statistics.