Going to the University of Queensland has a lot of perks. We have cool pub crawls, and faculty balls. We have a nice looking campus at St. Lucia with lots open space and half decent buildings (except for you, Hartley Teakle. Except. For. You.). Even some of our education is somewhat decent, which is a nice surprise. However, at this very point in time, there is one solid reason that going to UQ is an issue, and that reason is Disease.

For the past six days, I have been sitting at home nigh debilitated by the flu. Think of what you're missing out on with your fully functioning immune systems, people. You don't get the joys of feverous hot and cold patches, where you'll happily be rugged up in a doona one minute only to have to launch it all off before your skin turns into the depths of Tartarus. You don't have the winter wonder of waking up with the Atacama desert in your throat, coughing up more than all your lunch money for the school bullies. You won't has glowing memories of piles of tissues held together with construction grade mucus around you at all times. Feel envious, people. Feel envious.

However, my flu isn't the the kind of disease that is tearing through the University; it is merely a poorly worked-in springboard to my next point. Unfortunately, what is tearing through the university is something a little more 19th century, Measles. The infectious version of a satellite image of the Mojave has popped up in 5 (as at time of writing) different cases over the past few weeks, showing that quarantine isn't doing its job entirely. The most recent case came about after the student was on the Journalism student society pub crawl (I'm a little proud that my faculty can change people's lives so vastly).

The measles is making a comeback recently, and not the Delta Riggs, 70s-fashion-for-hipsters kind of comeback. At the beginning of the year, in California Disneyland, nearly 200 cases of children falling sick from the disease were reported. Most of these cases can be pretty squarely blamed on the movement of 'anti-vaxxing' or, as its known in most circles, 'not making a single iota of logical sense'.

Anti-vaxxing is the poor decision to not get one's children vaccinated on the basis that... nothing, There is no real medical or scientific basis. The most commonly touted 'scientific' study, conducted by a bloke called Andrew Wakefield, which stated there was a link between vaccinations and autism, has since been entirely discredited, and Wakefield's medical license revoked.