What kind of grudge do British universities have against clapping? Roughly one year after the University of Manchester Student Union banned clapping at its events – choosing to instead ask audiences to use ‘jazz hands’ to show their appreciation for a performance – students at the University of Oxford are working to “replace clapping” because it could “trigger anxiety.”
Like their peers in Manchester, they will ask audiences to use silent hand-wave motion called “jazz hands”.
The motion to “mandate the encouragement of silent clapping” successfully passed in a vote taken by the school’s Student Union during their first meeting of the new school year….
UK “Immunization” Schedule from 2012. This is the oldest one I could find:
Note the current schedule targets a new category: the elderly.
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