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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm genuinely not sure why people are skeptical about colleges announcing they'll reopen. They'd take such a huge financial hit if they didn't it seems inevitable.[/quote]

Perhaps because they will take an even bigger hit if they bring everyone back and then they have to shut again four weeks later .....[/quote]

And students, faculty and staff being hospitalized, and possibly dying, is not a good look. Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in families about the safety of the campus environment. [/quote]

They have a greater risk of death and serious illness from suicide, alcohol, and drugs than they do from CV, but yet that doesn't stop them from opening to students year after year. Most every college will lose more students and faculty to every other cause of death than CV--some of them directly related to being a college campus. They make rational decisions based on calculated risk. That's why you are not running a university. You are not a rational person.[/quote]

None of the other causes of death you mentioned are infectious diseases against which the general population has no natural immunity, and which have no cure and only very limited treatments available. Pretty hard to take a calculated risk when it is impossible to know what the infection rate will be in their area in the fall. Have these university officials checked with local hospitals to see what they predict about their capacity to handle sick patients from the college or university? [/quote]

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