Cover thy mouth, heathen!

So I’m walking to lunch one day, and coming down the stairs toward me is another Rose student. All of a sudden, he looks me straight in the eye, opens his mouth, and coughs like he was barfing up his lung. His mutated strains of Streptococcal pharyngitis came hurtling at me at a bajillion miles an hour. There was no way I could get out of their path. I was shot down like K-Fed when Brittany decided to deny him the poontang. Thanks.

Okay; giving this unnamed dude the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was one of those “oh-my-God-I’m-going-to-cough-in-the-next-1.5-milliseconds” coughs and there just wasn’t time to get the mouth to the sleeve. Maybe.

Or maybe this guy is an idiot and has never been enlightened about the benefits of preventing the spread of an infectious disease. Dunno. I know plenty of people here at Rose, and while some can be a touch inconsiderate, none strike me as the kind of person who would struggle with a concept this simple.

But then again, I’ve been wrong before.

Here’s the scoop, kiddies: cover your mouth! Whether you cough into your shoulder, elbow (better) or your hand (not as good), doesn’t matter; just don’t spray your contagious, disgusting, viral infection on to everybody else who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Yeah, it’s that time of year, when people get sick. Get over it. When you’re sick there are things that you need to do to care for yourself and those around you. Before break, that flu bug stormed through campus, hitting people in the stomach like a raging-mad pitbull bent on tearing out your intestines. Now the sore-throat-cold-thing epidemic has started. Be aware! Care for your fellow Rose-Hulmanites! Spreading a disease is like shaking somebody’s hand then immediately whipping out a Sharpie and writing “butthole” on their face. Not a nice thing to do.

You don’t want your germs, and I definitely don’t want your germs. Keep them to yourself, man. That’s just gross.