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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what will happen: most or all schools will open under some new operational scheme and with certain limitation and restrictions in place. Most or all will utterly fail to implement said restrictions because they will be impossible to implement (quarantine students in hotels, are you f'ing kidding me???). Utter chaos ensues and COVID cases spike again (which happens whether or not schools re-open). All the open schools exacerbate the spike and are either forced to close again or just carry on and infect everybody on campus and in their town and city. Will not be pretty.[/quote]

I'm PP at 23:46 above you and I agree completely with this assessment.

It's part of the larger pattern that is coming for the rest of 2020 and into next year: A "return to normalcy" far too early, followed by spikes and more closures not only of colleges but also of businesses and schools. The open and close cycle is going to be devastating. My college freshman is home and finishing the semester online right now (thank God, sincerely, for the Internet, not just academically but socially). She would far rather be at her college which she loves and which we love and value too, and I believe the college administration at her very caring college is really working to figure out what to do that's best for the students more than anything else. But the whole structure of ALL residential colleges and universities of any size is that people are studying, working and living together, and the living together component simply cannot work without things colleges cannot provide, like all single rooms with individual bathrooms and food delivery and, and, and....
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