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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colgate University in upstate NY has an interesting plan. All kids--regardless of whether they stayed on campus over the summer or live in New York--began a 14-day quarantine in their dorm rooms / off-campus housing yesterday for 14 days. They were tested before the quarantine, and then will be tested twice during quarantine. They must mask when outside of their rooms, and can't leave their floor (their "extended family") other than for specific times for exercise, in specific areas. Meals are delivered to the rooms / off-campus residences by staff. The President, smartly, is actually doing the quarantine in a freshman dorm room. We shall see. There's a good chance, given this is in New York which essentially has no community transmission, that this all works and they have a "relatively" normal fall. Even with the quarantine, there will be restrictions after (Phase 1, 2, etc.) but my guess is that kids won't follow those too closely. These are 18-22 Y.O.s we're talking about. If, even after all this, the school has an outbreak, that'll also be interesting. It'll show that even the strictest quarantines can't create a true bubble. This is what New Zealand learned--and they're an island.[/quote]

I think what New Zealand learned is that you can't let your guard down. They stopped wearing masks, had movie theaters back open, and were essentially back to normal. If they'd continued with social distancing and mask wearing, things might have played out differently when, inevitably, the virus slipped in.[/quote]

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