Northwestern Goes Remote 1st 2 Weeks of Jan. Any others?

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U of Michigan is NOT delaying. Winter semester begins Monday January 3rd.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

I love how people think that there are no “elders” on college campuses. Forget professors. Who do you suppose is working in the dining halls making sure your kid has food three times a day or cleaning your kid’s dorm bathroom? Plenty of universities just threw their frontline staff under the bus during this pandemic and you won’t see that on any of their Covid dashboards.

I don’t disagree with you about the importance of in-person education, especially given the dire state of mental health among college students right now. But you’re deceiving yourself if you think that it’s actually reducing overall risk instead of just offloading it onto people you never think about.

Can’t the elders receive vaccines and boosters? Don’t they work? If not, then why is the university forcing all students to receive one? Sorry but none of this is making any sense, especially the all-boosted campuses going virtual. This is clown world.

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WashU. Argh!!!!! No classes in person until end of Jan. MAKE IT STOP!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why my DD applied to colleges in the south

Why?

Because the virus only attacks in states that aren't in the south? Wow, all those reports about hospitals closing in some southern states due to covid-caused overcrowding must have been false!

Or because you assume colleges in the south are...not very good at taking a pandemic seriously? So you can be assured your kid will go to class in person even if a virus is tearing through campus?

Either way, you're pretty ignorant and allowed your child to continue that tradition. Congrats.

DP. Also glad my DC is only applying in the South.

Because the schools in the South actually believed in and followed science. Interesting that you’re not citing data about Covid hospitalizations and severe illness (or lack thereof) on college campuses in the South. That would be because the schools did just fine, and avoided the epidemic of depression on northern campuses that locked students in their rooms. Not to mention that they actually educated their students. The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

Interesting how, now that Covid is rampant in the NE and DC, Covid spread is no longer caused by moral failure (And don’t say “but Omicron!” — Delta is still around in the North, and that is the cause of most of the hospitalizations).

So true.

I have family in Florida and it is a much different world than here in the DMV. And comparing Florida to NY, it’s clear the heavy-handed policies of New York haven’t made enough of a difference to justify the disruptions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

I love how people think that there are no “elders” on college campuses. Forget professors. Who do you suppose is working in the dining halls making sure your kid has food three times a day or cleaning your kid’s dorm bathroom? Plenty of universities just threw their frontline staff under the bus during this pandemic and you won’t see that on any of their Covid dashboards.

I don’t disagree with you about the importance of in-person education, especially given the dire state of mental health among college students right now. But you’re deceiving yourself if you think that it’s actually reducing overall risk instead of just offloading it onto people you never think about.

Can’t the elders receive vaccines and boosters? Don’t they work? If not, then why is the university forcing all students to receive one? Sorry but none of this is making any sense, especially the all-boosted campuses going virtual. This is clown world.

Agreed.

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Georgetown. No in-person classes until Jan 31.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

I love how people think that there are no “elders” on college campuses. Forget professors. Who do you suppose is working in the dining halls making sure your kid has food three times a day or cleaning your kid’s dorm bathroom? Plenty of universities just threw their frontline staff under the bus during this pandemic and you won’t see that on any of their Covid dashboards.

I don’t disagree with you about the importance of in-person education, especially given the dire state of mental health among college students right now. But you’re deceiving yourself if you think that it’s actually reducing overall risk instead of just offloading it onto people you never think about.

Can’t the elders receive vaccines and boosters? Don’t they work? If not, then why is the university forcing all students to receive one? Sorry but none of this is making any sense, especially the all-boosted campuses going virtual. This is clown world.

You really don't understand pandemics and disease transmission. Yes, vaccines and boosters work. But, with this latest omicron mutation (thanks unvaccinated, non-distanced, unmasked folk for letting it breed and mutate) is not as deterred by the vaccine. Thankfully, it is not as deadly, and the vaccines to give some protection and help mitigate symptoms and severity. But, omicron is highly contagious, hospitals are filling up, and people are still at risk. Also, it looks like it will move on quickly, so if we can just batten down the hatches for a bit, that will help.

It stinks but will hopefully be short-lived.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why my DD applied to colleges in the south

Why?

Because the virus only attacks in states that aren't in the south? Wow, all those reports about hospitals closing in some southern states due to covid-caused overcrowding must have been false!

Or because you assume colleges in the south are...not very good at taking a pandemic seriously? So you can be assured your kid will go to class in person even if a virus is tearing through campus?

Either way, you're pretty ignorant and allowed your child to continue that tradition. Congrats.

DP. Also glad my DC is only applying in the South.

Because the schools in the South actually believed in and followed science. Interesting that you’re not citing data about Covid hospitalizations and severe illness (or lack thereof) on college campuses in the South. That would be because the schools did just fine, and avoided the epidemic of depression on northern campuses that locked students in their rooms. Not to mention that they actually educated their students. The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

Interesting how, now that Covid is rampant in the NE and DC, Covid spread is no longer caused by moral failure (And don’t say “but Omicron!” — Delta is still around in the North, and that is the cause of most of the hospitalizations).

So true.

I have family in Florida and it is a much different world than here in the DMV. And comparing Florida to NY, it’s clear the heavy-handed policies of New York haven’t made enough of a difference to justify the disruptions.

about the bold -- Covid spread is definitely caused by moral failure, no matter what part of the country you're talking about. The moral failure is not on the part of the vaccinated who are getting breakthroughs of omicron. It's a failure on the parts of the unvaxxed who shrugged and let Covid mutate and spread into a version that breaks through and infects those who did everything right -- not just for themselves but for public health.

So strange that some of you are turning this into a weird South vs. North issue. If you want to send your kids to schools in the South based on how you feel specific schools handled Covid, great, but this nonsensical "North bad, South good" talk has nothing to do with colleges and everything to do with pretending that certain Southern states are now somehow vindicated because people in Northern states are getting Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why my DD applied to colleges in the south

Why?

Because the virus only attacks in states that aren't in the south? Wow, all those reports about hospitals closing in some southern states due to covid-caused overcrowding must have been false!

Or because you assume colleges in the south are...not very good at taking a pandemic seriously? So you can be assured your kid will go to class in person even if a virus is tearing through campus?

Either way, you're pretty ignorant and allowed your child to continue that tradition. Congrats.

DP. Also glad my DC is only applying in the South.

Because the schools in the South actually believed in and followed science. Interesting that you’re not citing data about Covid hospitalizations and severe illness (or lack thereof) on college campuses in the South. That would be because the schools did just fine, and avoided the epidemic of depression on northern campuses that locked students in their rooms. Not to mention that they actually educated their students. The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

Interesting how, now that Covid is rampant in the NE and DC, Covid spread is no longer caused by moral failure (And don’t say “but Omicron!” — Delta is still around in the North, and that is the cause of most of the hospitalizations).

So true.

I have family in Florida and it is a much different world than here in the DMV. And comparing Florida to NY, it’s clear the heavy-handed policies of New York haven’t made enough of a difference to justify the disruptions.

Yes FL. Great example. My nephew is at school in FL and has gone through 2 rounds of covid. He's concerned the vaccine for "health reasons" but won't wear a mask. The college only tests upon request and don't require vaccines. Roommate was sick w/ it this Fall. Masks & vaccines are optional and classes are at full capacity. They also don't post covid stats. I wonder why. Also, my sibling lets them visit w/ my parents. They are boosted but old, and one parent is immuno compromised. So, yay FL. Not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why my DD applied to colleges in the south

Why?

Because the virus only attacks in states that aren't in the south? Wow, all those reports about hospitals closing in some southern states due to covid-caused overcrowding must have been false!

Or because you assume colleges in the south are...not very good at taking a pandemic seriously? So you can be assured your kid will go to class in person even if a virus is tearing through campus?

Either way, you're pretty ignorant and allowed your child to continue that tradition. Congrats.

DP. Also glad my DC is only applying in the South.

Because the schools in the South actually believed in and followed science. Interesting that you’re not citing data about Covid hospitalizations and severe illness (or lack thereof) on college campuses in the South. That would be because the schools did just fine, and avoided the epidemic of depression on northern campuses that locked students in their rooms. Not to mention that they actually educated their students. The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

Interesting how, now that Covid is rampant in the NE and DC, Covid spread is no longer caused by moral failure (And don’t say “but Omicron!” — Delta is still around in the North, and that is the cause of most of the hospitalizations).

So true.

I have family in Florida and it is a much different world than here in the DMV. And comparing Florida to NY, it’s clear the heavy-handed policies of New York haven’t made enough of a difference to justify the disruptions.

about the bold -- Covid spread is definitely caused by moral failure, no matter what part of the country you're talking about. The moral failure is not on the part of the vaccinated who are getting breakthroughs of omicron. It's a failure on the parts of the unvaxxed who shrugged and let Covid mutate and spread into a version that breaks through and infects those who did everything right -- not just for themselves but for public health.

So strange that some of you are turning this into a weird South vs. North issue. If you want to send your kids to schools in the South based on how you feel specific schools handled Covid, great, but this nonsensical "North bad, South good" talk has nothing to do with colleges and everything to do with pretending that certain Southern states are now somehow vindicated because people in Northern states are getting Covid.

Yes. this. Also, I would add failing to take precautions like wearing masks in public during this new strain which is highly contagious. It's so easy to look out for one another this way. I don't understand why some people make this so hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

I love how people think that there are no “elders” on college campuses. Forget professors. Who do you suppose is working in the dining halls making sure your kid has food three times a day or cleaning your kid’s dorm bathroom? Plenty of universities just threw their frontline staff under the bus during this pandemic and you won’t see that on any of their Covid dashboards.

I don’t disagree with you about the importance of in-person education, especially given the dire state of mental health among college students right now. But you’re deceiving yourself if you think that it’s actually reducing overall risk instead of just offloading it onto people you never think about.

Can’t the elders receive vaccines and boosters? Don’t they work? If not, then why is the university forcing all students to receive one? Sorry but none of this is making any sense, especially the all-boosted campuses going virtual. This is clown world.

PP here. I didn't say they didn't work, although it's obvious that it's not enough to stop omicron from spreading. My point was just that people like the poster I quoted talk like college students are alone on campus in some kind of 18-22 year-old bubble. Sure, we parents are safer when our college kids go back to school but that doesn't mean that they are somehow magically not spreading Covid to other middle-aged people elsewhere. It's just shifting the risks around.

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UMiami - about as far south as you can go - for the ‘my daughter is only applying in the south’ poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

I love how people think that there are no “elders” on college campuses. Forget professors. Who do you suppose is working in the dining halls making sure your kid has food three times a day or cleaning your kid’s dorm bathroom? Plenty of universities just threw their frontline staff under the bus during this pandemic and you won’t see that on any of their Covid dashboards.

I don’t disagree with you about the importance of in-person education, especially given the dire state of mental health among college students right now. But you’re deceiving yourself if you think that it’s actually reducing overall risk instead of just offloading it onto people you never think about.

Can’t the elders receive vaccines and boosters? Don’t they work? If not, then why is the university forcing all students to receive one? Sorry but none of this is making any sense, especially the all-boosted campuses going virtual. This is clown world.

You really don't understand pandemics and disease transmission. Yes, vaccines and boosters work. But, with this latest omicron mutation (thanks unvaccinated, non-distanced, unmasked folk for letting it breed and mutate) is not as deterred by the vaccine. Thankfully, it is not as deadly, and the vaccines to give some protection and help mitigate symptoms and severity. But, omicron is highly contagious, hospitals are filling up, and people are still at risk. Also, it looks like it will move on quickly, so if we can just batten down the hatches for a bit, that will help.

It stinks but will hopefully be short-lived.

Except that is not the case. No matter how much you say it, it doesn’t make it true. And no matter how much Pfizer wants to push that narrative, it is wrong to say that unvaccinated individuals are causing variants. Viruses naturally mutate.

Variants have been arising overseas, not from the pockets of unvaccinated individuals here in the US. Many experts have said that the variants are arising due to immune compromised individuals.

You are the one who clearly doesn’t understand how diseases work. You can mask forever and Covid will still be around. You can shut down everything, and Covid will be there when you reopen.

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Anonymous wrote:U of Michigan is NOT delaying. Winter semester begins Monday January 3rd.

I think they have to be in-person otherwise it would look hypocritical because they're playing national championship football games today and possibly another game on Jan. 10th in front of 100,000 fans.

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Notre Dame