Current Events > Corona moves off campus as colleges send sick kids back to their communities.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/briefing/astrazeneca-california-wildfires-justice-department-your-wednesday-briefing.html

In recent weeks, as students have returned to campus, thousands have become infected. And some colleges have responded by sending students home, including those known to have the virus. Last week, after hundreds of students came down with the virus, the State University of New York at Oneonta ended in-person classes and sent students home. Colorado College, North Carolina State, James Madison (in Virginia) and Chico State (in California) have taken similar steps. At Illinois State, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia, administrators have encouraged some students who have tested positive to leave campus, so they dont infect other students, and return home.

These decisions to scatter students rather than quarantine them on campus have led to widespread criticism. Its the worst thing you could do, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal governments leading infectious-disease expert, said on NBC. When you send them home, particularly when youre dealing with a university where people come from multiple different locations, you could be seeding the different places with infection. Zach Morin, a University of Georgia student, told WXIA, a local television station, Once it is open and people are there and spreading it, it doesnt make sense to send it across the nation. Susan Dynarski, a University of Michigan economist, wrote on Twitter that unloading students onto home communities was deeply unethical. There are no easy answers for colleges, because creating on-campus quarantines brings its own challenges. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, one student who tested positive Brianna Hayes said that no employee checked on her during her week in isolation. Feverish and exhausted from the virus, she made four trips up and down staircases to move her bedding and other belongings to her isolation room, The Timess Natasha Singer writes, in a story about campus quarantines. Still, many experts say that the colleges that chose to reopen their campuses despite the risks, often for financial reasons, have a moral responsibility to do better. Universities are not taking responsibility for the risks they are creating, Sarah Cobey, an epidemiologist at the University of Chicago, said. Last spring, the meatpacking industry became a vector for spreading the disease, when it quickly reopened and caused hundreds of new infections. This fall, higher education may end up being a similar vector.



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Colleges are being super scummy and just care about getting tuition money this semester

Scary thing is majority of young people who catch it are asymptomatic. So they more likely to act like nothing is wrong with them while spreading it. US is so fucked.

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DarthAragorn posted...

Colleges are being super scummy and just care about getting tuition money this semester

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Scumbag colleges just had to wait until the tuition and housing checks cleared.

lmao "Make sure you get a dorm on campus! We're not going to allow classes from home!"

*2 weeks later*

"Please don't come in! Please attend all classes from home!"

no point in the dorm at all - unless - you guessed it! They wanted people to get the dorms and apartments just for the sake of $$

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Surprised Pikachu should be an emoji

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