If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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08/21/2020 15:47

Subject: If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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Anonymous

Yup, it’s all about testing. If we had a national plan for distributing and reading large quantities of efficient, rapid tests, our schools could all be open.

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08/21/2020 15:57

Subject: If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:Students as guinea pigs -- but I guess we'll learn a lot about how to monitor and contain the virus from the experience of various campuses this fall!

Students aren’t guinea pigs. We have plenty of data and examples from countries that have managed this far better.

We never did a full shutdown, what we did didn’t last long enough and testing has been a cluster f*ck. We also didn’t for e people to isolate outside their family.

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08/21/2020 18:32

Subject: If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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Anonymous

Tufts is doing testing 2 x's per week like Cornell and several other NE universities. That is in addition to a lot of restrictions on campus and a plan for isolation and contact tracing when someone tests positive. It's definitely going to be a different semester for my kid, but hopefully they will be able to stay open. Frankly, it will depend on how the students follow the restrictions. However, the constant testing is the only way to be able to open and stay open.

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08/21/2020 19:06

Subject: If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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Anonymous

It'll be Wuhan lockdown in a jiffy. Hope they have their welders on standby to seal the dorms shut.

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08/21/2020 23:40

Subject: Re:If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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Anonymous

So, here we go. Wasting limited testing supplies on populations not particularly vulnerable to COVID.

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08/22/2020 16:10

Subject: If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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Anonymous

Tell that to the schools in Georgia, Virginia, etc

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08/22/2020 16:13

Subject: Re:If your school is not doing massive, weekly testing, you're destined for online learning.

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:So, here we go. Wasting limited testing supplies on populations not particularly vulnerable to COVID.

Some of these institutions, like Yale and Illinois, are showing us the way forward as a society. The rest of them are just fumbling through the dark hoping to stumble upon a solution.