A mighty top 3 public college could not last 1 calendar week
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Fatalities is irrelevant on a college campus...its the likelyhood of transmission that is more concerning
Concerning perhaps but surprising? No, not at all. Totally disagree that fatalities are irrelevant -Fatalities is relevant for many reasons including if one of these young adults is your kid. We need to know about the severity of symptoms. These and other related questions are important and take the next step after we seemingly (at least in large part) fixed problem one, which was lack of testing.
Would you say fatalities on a college campus are irrelevant if 135 died? Fatalities are always relevant. Because it doesn't fit your agenda, fatalities are now irrelevant. LOL
I didnt want to diminish fatalities that are covid related. Yes deaths are relevant. Even a death on a campus is one too much. The issue is the student body lack of regard for others on the campus.
It's a virus. Viruses spread regardless of what we do. People are not actively spreading it to others because they want to or because they have "lack of regard." Stop the virtue signaling.
I agree it is a little concerning, but what is the long term solution? People are always concerned - but give few options to keep society moving.
Are we too live in a bubble for the rest of our lives, close down college campuses and all businesses permanently?
What if it never goes away or it pops back up every year or we never get a really effective vaccine?
Between 24 hour news cycle and social media, it is easy for people to go crazy and for everyone to be freaked out.
Unfortunately more people will get sick, some will end up in hospital and others will die, not in anyway trying to diminish these things, but just sticking with college campus idea what are the solutions?
If you look at the original post the so-called journalist with the article classifies the data as "horrifying".
That alone tells you that the article has an agenda and the agenda is not to inform people.
I'm always cautious when I see too many strong adjectives in any kind of report.
That alone tells you that the article has an agenda and the agenda is not to inform people.
I'm always cautious when I see too many strong adjectives in any kind of report.
Just to add further, I wouldn't classify 135 students out of 30,000 as horrifying, especially if they are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and there have been no hospitalizations let alone deaths.
The other magic word is quarantined. It's not like we're putting them in an isolated underground bunker. They are likely told to stay in their rooms.
One of my clients is a university and they went back to school yesterday with no issues.
The other magic word is quarantined. It's not like we're putting them in an isolated underground bunker. They are likely told to stay in their rooms.
One of my clients is a university and they went back to school yesterday with no issues.
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Agreed. I don't really see it as horrifying. As long as they are isolating from the general public, this might be the ideal situation if none of them get really sick.
Dorm living is going to cause the virus to spread. That is a given. They key is to only let it spread to those with little risk.
One caveat there for me is that some reports keep popping up about the long term effects of the virus. I have no idea of the validity of those claims.
Nobody knows. Can we continue to shut things down until we know? Maybe. But we won’t regardless of whether we should because this has become political. SAD
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