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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still no one here can explain why this makes sense other than keeping kids from traveling more in Nov and Dec.?

Campuses are going to be experiments where we see if putting thousands of people into close quarters will result in outbreaks. There's no precedent to study before students return because colleges shut down before the pandemic really ramped up. Other than colleges needing to show they're open and parents and students desiring it, what is the medical position on doing this? Lots of talk here saying "great idea" and worrying about summer jobs and wedding plans but not a peep about potential spread. Anyone's kid's college give you an actual explanation beyond just "we'll test everyone and cross our fingers re: dorm living"? [/quote]

I agree. ND made this move and other colleges followed. There will be less outbreak if students don’t come back after Thanksgiving does nothing to stop a huge outbreak during September/October. It worries me that colleges are spending time with Congress so they won’t be held responsible. There is no unified state/country/world plan. Colleges want your money in August and they want the full tuition. They want to be held responsible for nothing. Will they be able to separate the infected from those that are exposed and waiting. It can’t be like the cruise ship and nursing home fiascos where a few people are infected and everyone else is locked up and ends up getting it. Do colleges really have all this extra space? Will they have doctors and nurses roaming the quarantined dorms 24 hours a day to make sure everyone is ok? [/quote]

Thank you. This is what concerns me. Colleges are not equipped to become health monitors in this situation. I also expect that if many colleges are opening in about eight weeks' time from now, and all are vowing to test, they're going to find they can't get all the tests they need. And testing at the start on arrival isn't the end. They'll need to do retesting and should not wait until symptoms show.

I also have yet to see any college issuing a truly detailed plan re: bathrooms in dorms and class buildings,  food service issues (from how to serve drinks without touch-button drink dispensers that have spigots open to splash back, to ongoing testing for employees etc etc) and so on. I cannot see how shared bathrooms, especially showers, plus sinks (where kids brush teeth and therefore spit into the sinks...) can even REMOTELY be made safer. What college has 100 percent single rooms with individual bathrooms? None I know.

It's a medical experiment. Students do need to go back but these colleges are bringing them back in just about eight weeks. No way they can alter dat to day dorm setups in that time. [/quote]

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