As expected, the number of suspected cases continues to rise, essentially doubling since before the weekend.
Gannett Health Services seems to be taking the stance that students should remain in their rooms and take care of themselves, unless they are either (a) uncomfortable with doing this, or (b) have serious symptoms or other conditions which require some sort of medical attention.
I'm sure beer pong, the most popular drinking game at Cornell, hasn't been helping to slow the spread of H1N1:
A Cornell student wishing to remain anonymous was diagnosed with probable swine flu on Sunday at Cayuga Medical Center. She suspects that she contracted the flu by drinking out of the wrong cup at a party.It seems like this student was doing her best to only drink out of one cup, but there are plenty of students who are still happy to chug some Keystone Light out of a Solo cup which may have been sitting on a table for a couple of hours, with 5-10 other people having drank from it previously.
We look back on the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages with some sense of modern superiority (Of course the plague spread to so many people! They had poor sanitation!), but given everything we know about the spread of illness, the game of beer pong looks mighty stupid these days.
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