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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to be the devil's advocate here. First off, I full support wearing masks.  That being said, is it terrible if the kids get mild cases of COVID?  This would help us to achieve herd immunity, right?  I don't want for the students to put their professors at risk.  They can do online learning from their dorm rooms.  Dorm workers should be given adequate PPE.  If professors and dorm workers can be protected, is there any great harm done?[/quote]

With a disease this infectious, the problem is there is no way to protect the rest of the community once spread gets too high.  The idea is to contain outbreaks and stop the spread, so the whole community (and town and county) doesn't need to go back to shelter in place orders.

Colleges reopened with the expectation from the college town and county that they would be able to contain spread and not have COVID percolate on campus, then explode into the off campus community.

If the college campus has a major outbreak and it is left to spread, the students will infect custodians, health care workers, res life staff, people who work at the post office, people who work at the drug store; and anyone asymptomatic and not quarantined will spread it to employees at the library, the bookstore, Starbucks; to their parents and grandparents and cousins and sisters and brothers if they live near campus and visit -- then those people will spread it in the rest oft he town.[/quote]

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