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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, according to an op-ed in the NYT, large lectures will be online, kids will wear masks at all times and [b]move in and out of quarantine in hotel rooms if they are sick[/b] or are a contact of a case, social events will be online. Social distancing at all times. That's going to work. [/quote]

I'm going to look up that op-ed now. The idea (in bold) about quarantining kids? Wow. As if colleges will have the ability to test adequately to quarantine in that way. They won't have that ability, which means kids probably won't get quarantined until they are already showing symptoms -- and it's known that people are contagious early, when they do not show any symptoms at all. So kids will be in quarantine sick, not in quarantine waiting to see if they have the virus as is now largely the case. Some colleges might be able to do some contact tracing and quarantine those kids who aren't symptomatic yet. Maybe. Talk about adding a horrible new obligation (testing, contact tracing, overseeing quarantines, hoping some kid doesn't pass out or die while in a hotel quarantine, etc.)  for the colleges. Oh -- and are hotels really going to be up for hosting quarantines like this? In our DC's city the hotels are nowhere near campus and may not be very willing to become quarantine locations....

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