Closing colleges - are we that stupid?
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Anonymous
| Rather than “stay in place” we released millions of kids (hello Florida!) on the rest of the population. We should have kept them on campus. |
Anonymous
| It was spring break. They would have been there anyway. |
Anonymous
| Spring break happens either way? |
Anonymous
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Most college just either extended spring break or let them out a week early.
Keeping those students on campus would have had the same effect as the 10% infection rate on the cruise ships. Better that they go home to their local communities. I know my city is less congested without the population of an extra 30,000 people who were enrolled in universities and colleges. Can you imagine if Texas A&M had stayed open? They have 70,000 students by themselves! |
Anonymous
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No, colleges cannot police thousands of youngsters sharing rooms, socializing and falling sick. Better they go home to their families where social distancing might be better. |
Anonymous
| No, it is not stupid. It's impossible to practice social distancing on a college campus where they sleep, eat, bathe, and study in communal spaces. |
Anonymous
| The overwhelming majority of college students are adults. It is not the colleges' fault they can't behave like it. |
Anonymous
College dorms are a worst case coronavirus spreading scenario. Imagine if a few kids in a dorm got it. The whole dorm would. That said, the reason the colleges closed was because the college faces major in loco parentis liability if kids were to get it. Businesses wouldn't get sued by their employees parents if their workers got sick. But colleges would get sued, successfully, by their students' parents. |
Anonymous
| It’s imbeciles like the OP that got us in this fix......so much stupid. |
Anonymous
| OP, come on. This isn’t hard. We need the kids spread out. Not all living in the same small area. There is no way the hospital in most college towns could handle that many cases. |
Anonymous
| I was going to suggest that his university rename the dorms Imperial Princess 1, Imperial Princess 2 and so on because that’s what they would become: cruise ships that allow the spread of COVID-19 to rage. They finally got the sense to close the dorms. |
Anonymous
| Dorm communal bathrooms. Ugh. |
Anonymous
| A dorm is like a cruise ship. Not stupid. My kid came home for during break and just never went back to school. It was the right call. |
Anonymous
Except those kids are at low risk to themselves and each other. It is their role as carrier to adults that is a problem. I agree with PP that this was a liability CYA. This did nothing to help the United States fight a pandemic. |
Anonymous
| All the pandemic closures are CYA, starting from the whitehouse on down. |