Is Notre Dame screwing up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://wsbt.com/news/operation-education/notre-dame-students-share-coronavirus-testing-struggles

I saw this article on reddit. What a disaster.

Wow.

This matches what is being said on Twitter and on campus. They are in over their heads.

Schools planned to handle SMALL outbreaks. They never counted on needing to test thousands of people daily.

[Anonymous]

Report front the parent page today:
Our junior girl just called and said they, as students, are getting good info and updates from ND. She said they (ND) are all over the tracing and cases and have pinpointed the 2 parties and basically the same group that went to both. I think there is more being done to address the uptick of cases than they may have time to communicate as they are in the midst of handling. It sounds like there is a small group, somewhat localized, not following the guidelines in place but that the rest of campus is complying and it’s not a super-spreader situation. She also said that many of the kids doing the problematic partying are freshman who are in their first moments of freedom.

When my DC was a freshman, they went to a lot of off-campus parties in that first month — “the lax house,” “the soccer house,” the residence hall “legacy house,” etc.

[Anonymous]

How long will they have to do in-person instruction to be sure they can have a football season this fall?

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame will be the next to close now that Carolina closed.


Now that most students are back, they will start closing several a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame will be the next to close now that Carolina closed.


Now that most students are back, they will start closing several a week.

Shall we take bets on the what the positive cases number is on the ND COVID dashboard when the announcement that they will go with online instruction comes?

I say 300. Or is that too high?

[Anonymous]

It needs to be kept in mind that the number of positives will not equal the number in quarantine/isolation at any given time. The positives will only be in quarantine for two weeks. So a month from now, if the dashboard shows "300", that's not how many would be in quarantine, as earlier folks would have long left.

I would find it helpful if there were a dashboard indicator of current quarantiners - I didn't see one

[Anonymous]

They should just do less testing. Fewer cases that way.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to be the devil's advocate here. First off, I full support wearing masks. That being said, is it terrible if the kids get mild cases of COVID? This would help us to achieve herd immunity, right? I don't want for the students to put their professors at risk. They can do online learning from their dorm rooms. Dorm workers should be given adequate PPE. If professors and dorm workers can be protected, is there any great harm done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to be the devil's advocate here. First off, I full support wearing masks. That being said, is it terrible if the kids get mild cases of COVID? This would help us to achieve herd immunity, right? I don't want for the students to put their professors at risk. They can do online learning from their dorm rooms. Dorm workers should be given adequate PPE. If professors and dorm workers can be protected, is there any great harm done?

No country has achieved her immunity.

It was take 80% infected. Do you know how many hundreds of thousands of people would die to get us to that proportion????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame will be the next to close now that Carolina closed.


Now that most students are back, they will start closing several a week.

Shall we take bets on the what the positive cases number is on the ND COVID dashboard when the announcement that they will go with online instruction comes?

I say 300. Or is that too high?

Carolina closed when the positive rate was at 10%

I just went to check their dashboard and the site says try back later due to heavy load.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to be the devil's advocate here. First off, I full support wearing masks. That being said, is it terrible if the kids get mild cases of COVID? This would help us to achieve herd immunity, right? I don't want for the students to put their professors at risk. They can do online learning from their dorm rooms. Dorm workers should be given adequate PPE. If professors and dorm workers can be protected, is there any great harm done?

This is the thinking that causes more issues. sure in a perfect world it makes sense but the workers at the school go home, the ones that work in facilities, dinning halls, support staff. etc.

I wear a mask I am protected, you don't have to. You drink and drive, I don't same thing oh wait... your behavior impacts others. We both don't drink and drive we are both protected, we both wear a mask we are both protected.

[Anonymous]

A disproportionate number of business majors are reported to be positive. No word yet on any major hall spread.

[Anonymous]

It's mostly an issue among off campus students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to be the devil's advocate here. First off, I full support wearing masks. That being said, is it terrible if the kids get mild cases of COVID? This would help us to achieve herd immunity, right? I don't want for the students to put their professors at risk. They can do online learning from their dorm rooms. Dorm workers should be given adequate PPE. If professors and dorm workers can be protected, is there any great harm done?

No country has achieved her immunity.

It was take 80% infected. Do you know how many hundreds of thousands of people would die to get us to that proportion????

The number for herd immunity is not known at this time, and is lowered by things like mask-wearing and social-distancing. A community that wears masks regularly will likely achieve herd immunity at a much lower level than 80%.

[Anonymous]

They are up to 147 cases! That's why the dashboard was down.