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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is horrible from the University of Iowa.

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2020/08/21/university-iowa-student-tests-positive-coronavirus/5621379002/[/quote]

The college was unprepared but the student sounds clueless and whiny. [/quote]

This is the risk every single student is taking when they move into a dorm or apartment right now. They might find themselves far away from home, gravely ill, and alone in a circumstance outside of their control.

Everyone has the choice, but the students want that first picture. They want the decorated dorm. They want new friends. They don’t want to miss out. Parents want them to be happy, so they pack the car and move them in.

I don’t know if people are blissfully unaware, in complete denial, or just plain dumb, but the situation in this article is already happening to thousandS of college students at this very moment, and will happen to tens of thousands more.

And yet today, they are still packing the cars, convinced that their college has a safer plan.
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And this poor girl, who handled it better than I would have as an 18-year-old, may have exposed dozens of people to the virus, including many beyond the university community. When she decided she couldn't stay in the quarantine housing and couldn't go back home, she took a bus and checked in to a hotel. (I understand that she was doing the best she could.). Who knows who else was on the bus or in the hotel, and interacted with her in either place. This is why the dummies who say "college kids will be fine if the get it" just don't  understand: when college students get it, they will almost certainly spread it to people who aren't college students, and who aren't even part of the college community. This is how you get rising levels of community spread.

So irresponsible -- not on her part, but on the part of the university for opening up without an adequate plan.[/quote]

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