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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT is the same, but I am literally laughing at their 56 reported cases on their dashboard. Everyone my daughter knows is sick and they are refusing to test.[/quote]

Yeah,  it sucks that they are not testing but do we not recall that kids always get sick when they go to college? Like clockwork?[/quote]

DP and not tbe person to whom youre responding but -- this isnt like what "kids always get" in normal times. Vaccinated students who get infected might not get very ill and might not even have symptoms at all, but can transmit the virus to others who may be unvaccinated or unable to be vaccinated and for whom the outcome can be serious. Not just other students but family members and people in the community. The idea that this is no big deal, just another virus to run its course in the student population, is very short-sighted and shows no concern for the ideas of breakthrough infection, asymptomatic transmission and community health beyond the student population. Some parents are telling themselves these "it's just another college virus!" tales now because they're desperate to get kids back to college (or theyve dismissed the virus as "hysteria" all along).

Yes, covid will become an endemic and controllable part of life on and off campuses but we are not there yet. If students responsibly get vaccinated, limit activities, mask and distance appropriately, we'll get there sooner. But college football stadiums full of spectators will only keep delaying that day. So will shrugging and claiming, let it rip, it's just another virus. No, not yet. Certainly not in the wider community of which colleges are a part-- whether students and parents want to believe that or not.[/quote]

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