Auburn or Alabama-which one sends kids home first?
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Anonymous
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Auburn with it's 200 cases in 3 days is quickly gaining on Alabama's 310 cases
Roll tide or War Eagle? |
Anonymous
| Are your kids at either? If not, who cares, and if so, why do you think the rest of us care? This obsession with who will fail first - if at all - is really bizarre. Despite DCUM’s highest hopes, some schools will manage this just fine. My kids’ schools are. |
Anonymous
Do your kids go there? Why comment then if you are saying if someone's kids don't go there not to worry about it? |
Anonymous
| My friend works at Auburn and she said that back in March and April students were still partying and not taking things seriously. She also said that on May 1st, everything reopened in Alabama and it was not gradual. It was like a switch had been flipped. She was not happy about that in the least! I texted her earlier to ask how things are going at Auburn. Waiting to hear back...based off what she told me earlier this year, it's probably not going to be good. |
Anonymous
| Tuscaloosa mayor has shut down the bars for 14 days. |
Anonymous
| Neither - can't risk the football season. |
Anonymous
| When I saw they both ended online sorority rush with in person bid day, I knew it was all over. |
Anonymous
University of Alabama has 500 cases: https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html |
Anonymous
Sorry -- 531. Since 6 days ago.
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Anonymous
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Not a UA fan, but it's a huge school. That's about 1.5% of the student population (some of which showed up sick, despite entry testing). Auburn is about the same size, so their rate is about .5% of the student body.
According to this, less than 20% of their isolation rooms are occupied. https://uasystem.edu/covid-19-dashboard?0 Yes, they should have shut down the bars to begin with, but they have now. We'll see how it goes. Some of you seem awfully invested in not having students on campus. |
Anonymous
| Sorry OP. I know it doesn’t fit your agenda, but for those schools it’s all about what happens next. Shutting down the bars for both was a good step — especially since the article I read said the Alabama kids just came over to Auburn to party for the weekend with their hs friends when Alabama closed bars first. |
Anonymous
| Meh shutting the bars isn't going to matter much. You only capture the legal 21 and fake ID crowd. I went to Auburn for a couple years a while back (transferred out closer to hom but most students partied at frat houses, which can easily hold 200+ people or private apartment parties, which can easily hold 50+ people. These kids will get creative. They ain't going to be staying in their dorms on a Friday night that's for sure. |
Anonymous
Really because Alabama is not. 654 cases as of this evening and they are not reporting all cases. That's winning!!!!! |
Anonymous
The bars aren't going to do a damn thing. I follow kids from both schools and UNC on TikTok. This is what their evenings look like. 
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