Is Notre Dame screwing up?

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes, ND stopped updating their dashboard. WTF!

It doesn't update until noon CDT, two hours from now. Was there some sort of announcement?

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes, ND stopped updating their dashboard. WTF!

It doesn't update until noon CDT, two hours from now. Was there some sort of announcement?

Actually I forgot it's east coast time. Still, they have an hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes, ND stopped updating their dashboard. WTF!

They updated it yesterday. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yikes, ND stopped updating their dashboard. WTF!

It doesn't update until noon CDT, two hours from now. Was there some sort of announcement?

They didn’t update yesterday!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that some people have an outsized notion of the importance of beer drinking revelry amongst children. These kids are fortunate: they get to have a college education. They have these years to do nothing but study and maybe have a job if they really need one.

What exactly are they missing by staying 6 feet apart with masks on for a year while getting an education? In many ways, there are better off without the premarital sex and drunken debauchery. Imagine the value of learning the art of keeping your distance and having conversations, and basking in the anticipation of a long awaited first kiss in the sweetness of a post-Covid Spring. Ah, youth!

Why can't you drink beer 6 feet apart?

After how many beers does six feet stop being six feet? I think we just invented a new, dangerous drinking game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is from the ND student paper and has a lot more details about the new restrictions.

Honestly it sounds miserable for the kids. There is no good answer, but I think most of the students would be happier at home with their families. This has to be especially hard for the freshmen who don't even know one another yet.

https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/08/nd-classes-to-switch-online-for-next-two-weeks-to-halt-the-spread-of-virus/

My DD is a freshman at ND and is miserable. The restrictions that they've had in place have not made it a anything remotely close to a college-like experience. Grab-n-go food is terrible, no sports, no clubs, difficult to connect with masks, etc. She was ready to come home before yesterday's announcement. Now with the new restrictions, it'll be even worse.

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Anonymous wrote:All of this is proof we have raised a generation of selfish partiers who care nothing for others if it means delaying any gratification for themselves.

Possibly a tangent, but the collective sacrifice the younger generation is currently making for a much older generation is massive and rarely acknowledged.

+1000
They experience the cost of social distancing harder (they are at an age when they are trying to form lifelong bonds with people they've never met before) and the cost of not social distancing weaker (they rarely get seriously ill). All that can motivate them is an interest in the collective well-being of society and their elders. And they've been given inconsistent information about what to do, what works etc. They will be bearing the economic costs of this through taxes in their futures. I've been impressed.

I disagree. Unless you want to start looking at collective sacrifices that other generations made before this one -- in WW II, for example. Or the collective sacrifices medical professionals are making to treat overwhelming volumes of sick people in a pandemic. To sacrifice is part of being human, or a least a good human as Christ demonstrated (and this is a Catholic school, btw). I know as parents we want to protect our kids and I'm not discounting the horrible impact this is having on college-age kids. I've got two college kids myself. But anyone who doesn't think this generation has been pampered, and as unfortunate as the timing may be, could benefit from a wake up call that sometimes things just happen and you have to adapt -- as opposed to getting your parents to buy your way out of the problem.

The point being their collective sacrifice needs to be acknowledged. Most kids are complying despite not having direct threats to themselves and people--including you and earlier PP-- are still disparaging them as being pampered and selfish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes, ND stopped updating their dashboard. WTF!

It doesn't update until noon CDT, two hours from now. Was there some sort of announcement?

They didn’t update yesterday!

Relax everyone! They did update yesterday...it is always one day behind (so today will show yesterday's data). It is updated everyday at noon EST.

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73 new cases. Total of 222 since August 3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is from the ND student paper and has a lot more details about the new restrictions.

Honestly it sounds miserable for the kids. There is no good answer, but I think most of the students would be happier at home with their families. This has to be especially hard for the freshmen who don't even know one another yet.

https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/08/nd-classes-to-switch-online-for-next-two-weeks-to-halt-the-spread-of-virus/

Most kids would not be "happier" at home. My daughter's college was already 100% online learning and her and all of her rich friends still all moved into campus.

Did you actually read the article? The new rules (as in, the ones instituted yesterday) really make for what sounds like a miserable experience. Most facilities are closed. Food via grub hub in your dorm. No going into other dorms or using dorm common facilities.
Yes, I do believe that most of the kids at Notre Dame - especially the freshmen who don't know lots of people and are probably already homesick and dealing with adjustment - would be happier if they were home for the next two weeks. It may be worth the effort if these two weeks allow things to proceed on campus for the rest of the year, but it's oblivious to pretend that their experience is going to be a fun introduction to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from the ND student paper and has a lot more details about the new restrictions.

Honestly it sounds miserable for the kids. There is no good answer, but I think most of the students would be happier at home with their families. This has to be especially hard for the freshmen who don't even know one another yet.

https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/08/nd-classes-to-switch-online-for-next-two-weeks-to-halt-the-spread-of-virus/

My DD is a freshman at ND and is miserable. The restrictions that they've had in place have not made it a anything remotely close to a college-like experience. Grab-n-go food is terrible, no sports, no clubs, difficult to connect with masks, etc. She was ready to come home before yesterday's announcement. Now with the new restrictions, it'll be even worse.

I feel so badly for the freshmen. I hope she can hang in there and ends up having an amazing time at ND over the next four years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from the ND student paper and has a lot more details about the new restrictions.

Honestly it sounds miserable for the kids. There is no good answer, but I think most of the students would be happier at home with their families. This has to be especially hard for the freshmen who don't even know one another yet.

https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/08/nd-classes-to-switch-online-for-next-two-weeks-to-halt-the-spread-of-virus/

Most kids would not be "happier" at home. My daughter's college was already 100% online learning and her and all of her rich friends still all moved into campus.

I think freshmen would be happier at home.


Did you actually read the article? The new rules (as in, the ones instituted yesterday) really make for what sounds like a miserable experience. Most facilities are closed. Food via grub hub in your dorm. No going into other dorms or using dorm common facilities.
Yes, I do believe that most of the kids at Notre Dame - especially the freshmen who don't know lots of people and are probably already homesick and dealing with adjustment - would be happier if they were home for the next two weeks. It may be worth the effort if these two weeks allow things to proceed on campus for the rest of the year, but it's oblivious to pretend that their experience is going to be a fun introduction to college.

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222 positive

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-covid-cases-222-off-campus-party/

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Let me know when kids actually move out of South Bend en masse. Until then, this just seems like phony hysteria driven by anti-Catholic media and atheists.

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Anonymous wrote:222 positive

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-covid-cases-222-off-campus-party/

How many in hospital? Safe bet 0. How many are even showing symptoms? Safe bet <5, if not 0 as well. Otherwise we'd know both of these and they'd be the lede. "Hospitals in South Bend overrun with Catholic college students!"