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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is happening at all colleges and no one is getting tested because they don’t want to miss class and fail out. [/quote]

+1 [b]This is not unique to UVA. And it happened last year wherever in-person classes went on, too.[/b] [/quote]

NP. Nope, you're misinformed, PP. This did [u]not[/u] happen "last year wherever in-person classes went on." Some small colleges did very well. My DC is at a small college that had two full semesters on campus last year. More than 50 percent of DC's classes were in person and DC had friends in other majors who had even more in-person classes. Regular testing, masking and distancing protocols (which were relaxed as time went on and the students' cooperation paid off with low infection rates) all meant that the restricions could be a bit relaxed in the spring. Now DC is back at college, 99 percent of the student body is fully vaccinated, 97 percent of staff and faculty are fully vaccinated, classes are all in person except for a few taught by professors with health issues, and there will still be regular testing, just not as frequently as last year pre-vaccines.

Making grossly generalized statements like "it happened last year wherever in-person classes went on" is just a way to let UVA off the hook, as if it's OK for the university to say "we can't help it if there's an outbreak! No one can control it in a college setting!" Yes, small colleges can. DC didn't choose a small college with this in mind (no one could have) but frankly I would advise anyone concerned about issues like student health and safety to consider small colleges after this experience. I know--apples and oranges to compare UVA with a small college But it's just not correct to pretend that all in-person schools were tanked by the virus last year. [/quote]

My bad. I should have been more clear that I meant large universities. But cool story.[/quote]

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