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Quarantine, March 1927

It was diptheria this time but this certainly has a contemporary feel:

I’m sure you’ll all be as shocked as I was at the dorm dwellers’ reaction to the quarantine order:

I realize that there have been numerous posts about 1927 recently but it can’t be helped. Prepare yourselves for more because I found something wonderful but it’s going to take a bit of work to get there.

Trust me. Really, you can.

Bonus: I was on campus this afternoon and it’s so oddly quiet–not completely deserted like earlier but nothing at all like the bustle and excitement of a normal fall semester. There are a lot of signs around issuing all kinds of orders but the most explicit directions come from the architects, who are not fooling around about hand washing.

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