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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please tell us how many college students, professors and faculty are in the hospitals. Not 80+ year old retirement home residents.[/quote]

Right, who cares who Notre Dame ends up killing with their recklessness as long as it’s not a student or faculty.[/quote]

Well if they keep kids on campus, they aren’t exactly going to be infecting hospice and nursing home patients.  Honestly, keeping all these young people in college campuses is probably the safest place for them![/quote]

It may well be the safest place for them, but that’s not the whole picture. I think people don’t realize just how many other people it takes to support all those students on campus. Faculty members are only a small part of it. Every university also employs food service workers, custodial staff, groundskeepers, residence hall staff, administrative staff, technical support staff, etc. Who do you think is coordinating and delivering food to all these quarantined students? (Or not, as the case may be!) Cleaning their rooms? Keeping their WiFi working? Many of these people are high risk themselves. Many have elderly parents or immune-compromised spouses, who live with them or in nursing homes. Universities are major employers and they are responsible for the well-being of a lot of people, not just students. The higher the positivity rate on campus, the more risk those employees and their families take on. That’s just the truth. We can argue about whether it’s fair to put that risk on them but we can’t just ignore it.   [/quote]

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