The newborns are coming.
MSNBC reports the “Twilight” craze has made a real biting impact with some of its most fervent fans. The book-turned-movie craze has impacted some teenagers so much that nationwide reports of teenagers biting the necks of their peers is disturbingly on the rise.
To the dismay of health officials who warn the trend could lead to HIV infection, hepatitis an army of other infections and, surprisingly, a lack of immortality, reports of American teens giddy with the taste of blood have now become an actual health concern.
We’re not going to lie. We’ve been swept up into the “Twilight” craze, too. We’ve read the books shamefully and secretly. We’ve seen the midnight showings of the movies.
But we also realize our pitfalls of mortality and the little there is to change that.
As much as some of us would love our future to involve a stone-cold brooding vegetarian, Volvo-driving vampire, we sadly realize this will never happen.
And Bella has nothing to do with this.
Biting each other’s necks won’t solve anything, kids. You’ll still be mortal. And you’ll probably have just contracted a nasty infection.
We are perhaps just as alarmed as national health officials with the apparent trend. We often scoff at parents’ unnecessary woes of teenage trends (remember Pogs?), but this is something we should all be worried about.
This is not like pretending you’re a Hufflepuff and drinking a vial of Felix Felicis. This is a serious public health concern. Kids, please just stop biting one another. It’s gross.
