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Hi. As a member of the young generation that will one day
lead this country, I am very concerned about catching a disease
like SARS or Mad Cow Disease or possibly gonorrhea and then
getting sick or possibly dying.
During the last few months, our social studies teacher, Miss
Krantz, explained that in certain parts of the world people
are getting SARS by coughing on each other and I think this
is very, very wrong and must stop immediately. If someone
has SARS they should stay home and not cough on other people
because it's unsanitary and disgusting. How would you feel
if somebody coughed on you and gave you SARS? That's exactly
my point. You wouldn't like it at all!
One time my ex-boyfriend Brian Lemming kissed me and I got
mono and had to miss almost three weeks of school. He told
me he never had mono, but I only kissed him and two other
boys and he's the only one who stuck his disgusting tongue
in my mouth. The doctor told me later that the mouth is the
dirtiest part of the human body. So that makes Brian Lemming's
mouth even more super filthy and gross.
There are lots of other diseases out there that people can
get if others aren't careful. Last year I thought my ex-boyfriend
Brian Lemming might have gonorrhea and I made sure to tell
everyone about it --not because I wanted to embarrass him,
but I just wanted to insure that no other girls would go near
his thingie and possibly get infected too. Luckily, he didn't
have gonorrhea, but as I told Brian, it's better to be safe
then sorry.
Anyway, there are lots of ways to prevent getting SARS or
other diseases. First, you should stay away people who you
think might have it. If there's someone in your class that
looks weird or has stuff coming out of their nose all the
time, you should stay far away from them and perhaps tell
others that they probably have some kind of infectious disease.
More importantly is that people with horrible diseases like
SARS or gonorrhea shouldn't pretend that they're healthy so
they can do all the fun kinds of things all of us healthy
people can do. They should stay home and read magazines and
only contaminate their family members, who have to take care
of them no matter how gross it might be.
In conclusion, getting a disease is always bad, but when
it happens to young people who haven't had a chance to live
out their lives and join a sorority in college and then travel
throughout Europe, it's really tragic and those people should
be protected more than old people who will die soon anyway.
Please let the children live!
Jen Gillis
Sophomore, Camden High School
P.S. GO CAMDEN CHIEFS!
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