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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Covid, colds and flu's are going around and no one is masking and students are going to classes sick.  Read here how parents encourage their kids to go to class sick.  Not surprising at all.[/quote]

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DC graduated from college last year but hears from friends still there that covid is rampant, NO students are willing to test, and DC's friends' colleges have largely stopped handing out very low-cost/no-cost covid tests. No student wants to test anyway--they fear a positive test will mean they have to isolate for a week or more--which is totally not the case any more, per CDC guidance. But the kids are misinformed or not informed at all.

This is what happens when people decide a pandemic is magically "over" just because they want it to be. And the current dominant variant of covid is much more contagious than earlier variants. Generally the symptoms are not as bad but at the same time it is more highly transmissible. God help students with any tendencies to get sick or with any pre-existing conditions.

[b]If you want instructors back on the job those instructors should mask all the time. Oh, wait. Students will say they can't understand a masked lecturer yet students themselves won't mask so the instructor can go wtihout a mask while talking.

This could be curbed and instructors could get back to work if colleges stopped the "let it rip" hands-off nonsense and said instructors can require students to mask in their classes if the profs want. Go on, flame away, DCUM. Claim that it's no big deal. But if you do that, don't come back to complain that your kid is sick or your kid's professors are out sick "too often." [/b][/quote] totally agree. there's a lot they can do without shutting down, or sending everyone into isolation and should do it! The less chaos the better. We're paying a lot for these four years - it's expensive! [/quote]

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