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Harvard Dental School Gets Swine Flu, Lampoon Zombie Castle Celebrates 100 Years, Coincidence?
Posted By Adam Clark Estes On May 4, 2009 @ 2:02 pm In Uncategorized | 10 Comments
After Harvard Dental School closed last week when students started showing symptoms, reports came in yesterday that the number of Harvard-inspired cases has risen to eight. As the future career-related suicide risks enjoy no class while waiting for final word from the CDC, we’re making the final call that the Dental School is officially the diseased red-headed step child of Harvard, trumping last year’s scabies scare at the College.
Speaking of those Crimson Crazies, the Harvard Lampoon celebrated the hundred-year anniversay of the contruction of their funny little castle. The Lampoon semi-secret Sorrento Square Social organization that used to occassinally publish a so-called humor magazine—Yeah, I used to write for the Crimson, what about it?—exploded things and pissed of their neighbors per tradition. Nobody really knows what goes on inside the castle, but it definitely involved a confetti canon and a shitload of pyrotechnics.
Something strange is going on at Harvard, though. Amidst the apocalytpic ‘Poon thang, a section of balcony from an adjacent building fell from the heavens to injure two repentent smokers (probably) hanging out below. On top of the female orgasm seminar and events we can’t joke about, there might be a 28 Weeks Later sequel in the making in Cambridge.
The mild self-indulgence above could be read as a eulogy. To myself. If I get swine flu from the dentists. After the jump, a zombie movie about Marcel Proust made by Harvard kids, just because.
And because you know this graphic is cute:
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10 Comments To "Harvard Dental School Gets Swine Flu, Lampoon Zombie Castle Celebrates 100 Years, Coincidence?"
#1 Comment By H On May 5, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
So, take two posts from flybyblog.com, combine them, and TADA! Ivygate post!
Well done Adam Clark Estes. Well done.
#2 Comment By H On May 5, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
So, take two posts from flybyblog.com, combine them, and TADA! Ivygate post!
Well done Adam Clark Estes. Well done.
#3 Comment By yayylie On May 6, 2009 @ 2:26 am
Harvard has a dental school? What else does it have? An electrician’s school?
#4 Comment By yayylie On May 5, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
Harvard has a dental school? What else does it have? An electrician’s school?
#5 Comment By Bill On May 6, 2009 @ 2:40 am
“Harvard has a dental school? What else does it have? An electrician’s school?”
Clever. And by that I mean “elitist.” It’s just as valid at the Yale School of Forestry.
#6 Comment By Bill On May 5, 2009 @ 10:40 pm
“Harvard has a dental school? What else does it have? An electrician’s school?”
Clever. And by that I mean “elitist.” It’s just as valid at the Yale School of Forestry.
#7 Comment By Reason On May 6, 2009 @ 3:23 am
The Science in Society blog has posted a response to recent swine flu news, putting it in perspective with previous flu pandemics. Here is a piece comparing flu intervention in 1918 and today. An excerpt:
Just how important is starting countermeasures early, and what kind of interventions work? The tragedy of the Spanish flu provides a natural laboratory for public health measures, as cities throughout the US differed both in scale and timing of their interventions.
Medical science in 1918 was still getting on its feet. The majority of older physicians of the time were not educated under the scientific regimen of the Flexnerian revolution. The leading bacteriologists of the day mistakenly believed that influenza was a bacterial disease, and it was not until 1943 when it was recognized that a virus was responsible. As a result, medical intervention in the pandemic was of questionable value, not least because most of the best doctors had been drafted to serve in the military for WWI.
However, nonmedical interventions were also employed. These included quarantines, isolation of the sick in makeshift wards, closure of public gathering places such as churches and schools. Quick action (as measured by when flu cases rose to double the baseline number of cases) had a strong correlation with reduced mortality, and that maintaining the measures was important to keep the disease from spreading.
St. Louis, for example, closed schools and canceled public gatherings early, and maintained quarantines for over ten weeks, leading to a significantly lower mortality rate. However, not all cities were as proactive; the median duration of these interventions was only four weeks, insufficient to protect the population. Some cities were even counterproductive: Philadelphia hosted a military parade to promote war bonds, over the objections of numerous doctors and public health officials. Soon afterwards, it became one of the hardest-hit cities in the US.
#8 Comment By Reason On May 5, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
The Science in Society blog has posted a response to recent swine flu news, putting it in perspective with previous flu pandemics. Here is a piece comparing flu intervention in 1918 and today. An excerpt:
Just how important is starting countermeasures early, and what kind of interventions work? The tragedy of the Spanish flu provides a natural laboratory for public health measures, as cities throughout the US differed both in scale and timing of their interventions.
Medical science in 1918 was still getting on its feet. The majority of older physicians of the time were not educated under the scientific regimen of the Flexnerian revolution. The leading bacteriologists of the day mistakenly believed that influenza was a bacterial disease, and it was not until 1943 when it was recognized that a virus was responsible. As a result, medical intervention in the pandemic was of questionable value, not least because most of the best doctors had been drafted to serve in the military for WWI.
However, nonmedical interventions were also employed. These included quarantines, isolation of the sick in makeshift wards, closure of public gathering places such as churches and schools. Quick action (as measured by when flu cases rose to double the baseline number of cases) had a strong correlation with reduced mortality, and that maintaining the measures was important to keep the disease from spreading.
St. Louis, for example, closed schools and canceled public gatherings early, and maintained quarantines for over ten weeks, leading to a significantly lower mortality rate. However, not all cities were as proactive; the median duration of these interventions was only four weeks, insufficient to protect the population. Some cities were even counterproductive: Philadelphia hosted a military parade to promote war bonds, over the objections of numerous doctors and public health officials. Soon afterwards, it became one of the hardest-hit cities in the US.
#9 Comment By KEGGY On May 6, 2009 @ 6:49 am
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#10 Comment By KEGGY On May 6, 2009 @ 2:49 am
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