UVA sticking with Hybrid.. Welcoming first years to Campus next week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA hasn’t learned.

What I find interesting about this whole pandemic is that everyone thinks they can be the exception- until they aren’t.

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This, exactly. Everyone is so smug - until they find themselves in the same boat.

This. I dropped my first year off today. The number of kids not wearing masks is concerning.

We were there yesterday (Sunday, Sept. 6). I'd say about 40% were not wearing masks, were in pretty close proximity to one another, and didn't seem to be worried about it too much.

[Anonymous]

We also live in Charlottesville but not adjacent to UVa and students have been out and about on The Corner, on Rugby Rd, etc. mask usage is no where near as good as it should be for all of the messaging UVa has sent out to students.

[Anonymous]

UVA is way too confident in this. We’ll see how it turns out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How weird that you think it is acceptable to openly flaunt the rules, placing the entire college experience in jeopardy. I'll take assholes for 200, Alex


Okayyyy. So I guess you consider one of the country's top lawmakers - the Speaker of the House - an a-hole as well, for openly flaunting the rules? Or does this only apply to college students?

Both of you need to be quiet. It is "flout the rules" "Flaunt" means something entirely different and itsounds ridiculous when you say this. No one wants to read your uneducated bickering.

[Anonymous]

Why is UvA not enforcing masking? If kids are starting out wandering around with no masks, there is no hope they avoid off campus parties, and they are about two weeks behind JMU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is UvA not enforcing masking? If kids are starting out wandering around with no masks, there is no hope they avoid off campus parties, and they are about two weeks behind JMU.

More like 3-4 weeks, because they are starting with testing all students. More like Radford than JMU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA hasn’t learned.

What I find interesting about this whole pandemic is that everyone thinks they can be the exception- until they aren’t.

+100
This, exactly. Everyone is so smug - until they find themselves in the same boat.

This. I dropped my first year off today. The number of kids not wearing masks is concerning.

We were there yesterday (Sunday, Sept. 6). I'd say about 40% were not wearing masks, were in pretty close proximity to one another, and didn't seem to be worried about it too much.

We were there too but saw very high mask compliance on-grounds. When students are outside eating which many have to do now, they can't wear masks.
Where we saw your 40% number was in the greater Charlottesville community and across all ages. They can't pin community spread entirely on students and would do well to lead by example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA hasn’t learned.

What I find interesting about this whole pandemic is that everyone thinks they can be the exception- until they aren’t.

+100
This, exactly. Everyone is so smug - until they find themselves in the same boat.

This. I dropped my first year off today. The number of kids not wearing masks is concerning.

We were there yesterday (Sunday, Sept. 6). I'd say about 40% were not wearing masks, were in pretty close proximity to one another, and didn't seem to be worried about it too much.

We were there too but saw very high mask compliance on-grounds. When students are outside eating which many have to do now, they can't wear masks.
Where we saw your 40% number was in the greater Charlottesville community and across all ages. They can't pin community spread entirely on students and would do well to lead by example.

I'm not sure how useful anonymous anecdotal reports are, but I also dropped my kid off and also saw high adherence to mask wearing.

[Anonymous]

I dropped off my D this weekend and saw 100% mask compliance on Grounds. We did see some kids sitting outside off Grounds eating without masks but how else can you eat??? My other D is at Davidson and they are doing very well after 3 weeks on campus though with many restrictions. It may be more difficult to replicate Davidson's success at UVA because of the sheer numbers but I think UVA has decent chance of making this work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dropped off my D this weekend and saw 100% mask compliance on Grounds. We did see some kids sitting outside off Grounds eating without masks but how else can you eat??? My other D is at Davidson and they are doing very well after 3 weeks on campus though with many restrictions. It may be more difficult to replicate Davidson's success at UVA because of the sheer numbers but I think UVA has decent chance of making this work.

I don't think it is sheer numbers per se. Davidson has a much higher percentage of students on campus. Easier to monitor. UVA has evidence of community spread already, which is troubling. They really need the numbers for the next few days to go down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dropped off my D this weekend and saw 100% mask compliance on Grounds. We did see some kids sitting outside off Grounds eating without masks but how else can you eat??? My other D is at Davidson and they are doing very well after 3 weeks on campus though with many restrictions. It may be more difficult to replicate Davidson's success at UVA because of the sheer numbers but I think UVA has decent chance of making this work.

I don't think it is sheer numbers per se. Davidson has a much higher percentage of students on campus. Easier to monitor. UVA has evidence of community spread already, which is troubling. They really need the numbers for the next few days to go down.

Seriously? I'd say 2,000 students is easier to control than 16,000 students. Then add in that Davidson N.C. is a really small town, where Charlottesville is much larger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dropped off my D this weekend and saw 100% mask compliance on Grounds. We did see some kids sitting outside off Grounds eating without masks but how else can you eat??? My other D is at Davidson and they are doing very well after 3 weeks on campus though with many restrictions. It may be more difficult to replicate Davidson's success at UVA because of the sheer numbers but I think UVA has decent chance of making this work.

I don't think it is sheer numbers per se. Davidson has a much higher percentage of students on campus. Easier to monitor. UVA has evidence of community spread already, which is troubling. They really need the numbers for the next few days to go down.

Seriously? I'd say 2,000 students is easier to control than 16,000 students. Then add in that Davidson N.C. is a really small town, where Charlottesville is much larger.

Well, UVA has more of everything compared to Davidson, including its own health system it can use in support. It isn't as if UVA is trying to mange 16,000 students with the same staffing as Davidson. Davidson has 95% of students living on campus. UVA has 38%. I just think the lack of oversight on the off campus students is going to be the deciding factor.