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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will you feel better when more colleges go back and quickly close after the virus rapidly spreads like it did at UNC?

All it takes is one frat party or night at the bar for college students from across the country to get sick and then be forced to return to their home states...which will prompt new spikes.

There's no way public schools could avoid the spread. So we're doing DL. This is the new normal until we have a vaccine that can be administered on demand. Accept it.[/quote]]

Once again all of you fail at statistics.  The news media focuses on the handful of schools and colleges that have closed.  Never mind the vast majority are open and fine.[/quote]

It's only been about two weeks and we already have all of these.  The majority of colleges are doing on-line only learning and you still have this many?  And you think this is just a small statistical event that will go away?  Sorry, but if you look at when this virus was introduced to new communities, it doesn't just taper off and go away without active changing behavior and active battling.  I don't think the college kids who are attending large mass fraternity and sorority events or having off-campus parties really plan to change their behavior and actively battle the disease without an actual outbreak occurring.  By the time an outbreak is discovered, it's already been days or weeks into the transmission pattern.  This is just the tip of the iceberg and problem is that problems like this get worse, not better unless you start following health and safety guidelines, but it's very hard to get the kids to effectively follow the guidelines.

But okay, you keep fooling yourself into believing that things will get better.

[url]https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html[/url]
[quote]About a dozen colleges have reported cases on campus, with more than 100 students testing positive at University of Notre Dame, Iowa State University, UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Kentucky.

Outbreaks have been traced to off-campus gatherings, sororities, fraternities and dorms, leaving schools to reassess how to proceed with the fall semester.

North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, Northeast Mississippi Community College, Western Kentucky University and East Carolina University have all reported significant numbers of cases as well.[/quote]

[url]https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/512824-school-reopenings-with-covid-19-offer-preview-of[/url]
[quote]Thousands of students and teachers across the country are quarantining just days into the new school year, highlighting the challenges of resuming in-person instruction during a pandemic.

While many schools aren’t scheduled to reopen until later this month or September, those that have are offering a preview of the chaos that awaits districts this fall, particularly in hot spots in the South and Midwest where the virus is spreading uncontrollably.

In Georgia’s Cherokee County School District, where students are not required to wear masks, nearly 2,200 students — mostly high schoolers — are quarantining after coming into contact with one of 116 students or 25 teachers and staff members with COVID-19. Another 53 teachers and staff members are also quarantining.

Those numbers are expected to increase with more test results. In the meantime, three of the district’s six high schools have moved classes online, at least until September.

Experts have warned for weeks that it will be extremely difficult to safely reopen schools in hot spots, but some districts are still charging ahead — some willingly, others after some prodding from state and national leaders.

The results, health officials say, are not surprising, though they are preventable.

“You go in, people get infected — boom, you close them down. So it’s better to ease in, perhaps with virtual, until you see what’s going on when you’re in a really hot zone,” Anthony Fauci said during a livestreamed event Tuesday, referring to schools that have already closed after reopening this year.

“When you're in a red zone … you really better think twice before you do that because what might happen, is what you've seen,” Fauci added.

Schools in states like Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Tennessee have shut down, at least temporarily, after finding COVID-19 in their hallways and classrooms.[/quote][/quote]

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