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[quote=Anonymous]The big unknown is whether mask wearing will make a dent in the transmission. The home made masks and bandanas are not very effective. If colleges were able to distribute the surgical masks that are closer to 75% effective and require students to wear them it would be better but the US does not have enough PPE to do this. Mask compliance is another issue. I can't tell you how many old men and young guys I see in the grocery stores with their masks on but pulled below their noses. Off tangent but what is with old and young dudes not being able to figure this out. Women and men in their 30s-50s seem to get it but the old guys and 20s-teenager guys seem not to be capable of this.

If masks are not that effective because of compliance or wrong materials then the implications of colleges returning are massive. Most colleges like to have representation from all 50 states so when everyone travels home if there is widely circulating COVID in any schools you have just introduced it back into all 50 states. Colleges located in rural areas present the risk of overwhelming small healthcare facilities or infecting the local population. Colleges in urban areas add to new transmission vectors in an already dense at risk environment. Colleges in cooler climates will have people spending more time indoors starting in October and transmission rates could skyrocket only to shut down and send the student back out to all 50 states. [/quote]

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