Is Notre Dame screwing up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is doing great. It is working on becoming the first University in the country to reach community immunity. About 25% of the on-campus students have or had covid. And, they are helping out currently by transmitting covid around the State and soon - the country. Thanks Notre Dame. The goal is to see how many people we can infect. Sure, many will suffer and some will die, but what more could you ask for? After all - didn’t the President of the school catch covid by being stupid enough to violate school rules in public?

Actually, 16% of the students have or had COVID. There are currently 186 active cases. So hundreds of return trips/flights home were cancelled and many students are spending Thanksgiving in quarantine and/or isolation on or near campus, some as many as up to 17 days. So there are some facts for you.

[Anonymous]

Being in the "top 20" is what matters? That's odd.

According to Notre Dame's own covid website it has had 373 positive cases in the last 14 days, though it lists 160 as an estimate of current active cases -- again very odd. So you test positive 8 days ago, and Notre Dame's position is "you're good to go"?

And, of course, Notre Dame will be back filling on the list for the recent days as more of the tests come back positive -- about a 3 day delay. Basically Notre Dame is hitting 20-30 positives a day at its on-campus testing facility. Each of those 20-30 cases are all going to have about 3-5 additional folks who must quarentine. So -- conservatively you would be looking at 40-60 people a day needing to quarentine.

With about 7,000 students on campus those are out of control epidemic numbers. No one should be leaving campus unless they can show they had a covid diagnosis within the last 3 months and now test negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being in the "top 20" is what matters? That's odd.

According to Notre Dame's own covid website it has had 373 positive cases in the last 14 days, though it lists 160 as an estimate of current active cases -- again very odd. So you test positive 8 days ago, and Notre Dame's position is "you're good to go"?

And, of course, Notre Dame will be back filling on the list for the recent days as more of the tests come back positive -- about a 3 day delay. Basically Notre Dame is hitting 20-30 positives a day at its on-campus testing facility. Each of those 20-30 cases are all going to have about 3-5 additional folks who must quarentine. So -- conservatively you would be looking at 40-60 people a day needing to quarentine.

With about 7,000 students on campus those are out of control epidemic numbers. No one should be leaving campus unless they can show they had a covid diagnosis within the last 3 months and now test negative.

Some positive students were allowed to leave campus with their parents via auto. That was allowed as long as they followed specific procedures.

[Anonymous]

Why are people so obsessed with Notre Dame? It’s an okay SLAC that serves as an “elite” safety for Catholic school kids. They have a decent football team that is consistently over ranked because of the way they game the conference system (and the inherently weird nature of college football). South Bend is cold and dull. Half the ND graduates I know are fine, if a little over-invested in being an ND grad, and half are dullards with little going on beyond being “Irish” (as an actual half-Irish person, I find the school’s bastardization of my heritage... weird, at best?).

There are schools that have handled Covid better than ND, and schools that have handled it worse. I don’t really blame the kids (they are doing what college kids do), but the school’s leadership is embarrassing.

But why are there over 70 pages of comments in this thread?! For real, how is this interesting to this many people for this long?

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame is now closed until February. Many other schools will return after Thanksgiving. You’ve got a two month hiatus until your vitriol and arm chair quarterbacking can begin again.

Here’s a nice article about Covid and universities, perhaps you’ll find another school of interest that you can direct your ire. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people so obsessed with Notre Dame? It’s an okay SLAC that serves as an “elite” safety for Catholic school kids. They have a decent football team that is consistently over ranked because of the way they game the conference system (and the inherently weird nature of college football). South Bend is cold and dull. Half the ND graduates I know are fine, if a little over-invested in being an ND grad, and half are dullards with little going on beyond being “Irish” (as an actual half-Irish person, I find the school’s bastardization of my heritage... weird, at best?).

There are schools that have handled Covid better than ND, and schools that have handled it worse. I don’t really blame the kids (they are doing what college kids do), but the school’s leadership is embarrassing.

But why are there over 70 pages of comments in this thread?! For real, how is this interesting to this many people for this long?

Let me guess - you're either a Kamala Harris fan because she bashes Knights of Columbus or a Dianne Feinstein fan who ridicules anyone who has "dogma living loudly in you"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is now closed until February. Many other schools will return after Thanksgiving. You’ve got a two month hiatus until your vitriol and arm chair quarterbacking can begin again.

Here’s a nice article about Covid and universities, perhaps you’ll find another school of interest that you can direct your ire. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html

Thanks PP. Now I'm going to turn my attention to the other colleges and universities whose presidents caught COVID at a White House superspreader event while doing all the things students were told not to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people so obsessed with Notre Dame? It’s an okay SLAC that serves as an “elite” safety for Catholic school kids. They have a decent football team that is consistently over ranked because of the way they game the conference system (and the inherently weird nature of college football). South Bend is cold and dull. Half the ND graduates I know are fine, if a little over-invested in being an ND grad, and half are dullards with little going on beyond being “Irish” (as an actual half-Irish person, I find the school’s bastardization of my heritage... weird, at best?).

There are schools that have handled Covid better than ND, and schools that have handled it worse. I don’t really blame the kids (they are doing what college kids do), but the school’s leadership is embarrassing.

But why are there over 70 pages of comments in this thread?! For real, how is this interesting to this many people for this long?

Agreed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people so obsessed with Notre Dame? It’s an okay SLAC that serves as an “elite” safety for Catholic school kids. They have a decent football team that is consistently over ranked because of the way they game the conference system (and the inherently weird nature of college football). South Bend is cold and dull. Half the ND graduates I know are fine, if a little over-invested in being an ND grad, and half are dullards with little going on beyond being “Irish” (as an actual half-Irish person, I find the school’s bastardization of my heritage... weird, at best?).

There are schools that have handled Covid better than ND, and schools that have handled it worse. I don’t really blame the kids (they are doing what college kids do), but the school’s leadership is embarrassing.

But why are there over 70 pages of comments in this thread?! For real, how is this interesting to this many people for this long?

Agree that people are over-obsessed with ND. Just a clarification, it's a mid-size university with undergrad enrollment >8k, not a SLAC.