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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Umm, no.  There's another virus going around at UVA as well as other colleges.  The vast majority of students who are getting tested are testing negative, my son is one of them as well as his roommate.  This alarmist mentality without any sort of supporting evidence other than someone is coughing is ridiculous.  Even if Covid were spreading, what doe sit matter - I think something like 98% of UVA students and a like majority of faculty are vaccinated.  You're not going to stop the spread, but can stop the seriousness of the symptoms, which is what the vaccine does very well.

Wanting to shut down everything is unrealistic and isn't going to happen.  We have to learn to live with and manage this disease.  If you're so worried about your kid catching Covid at school, you shouldn't have enrolled them in the first place.  Better to lock them in your basement.[/quote]

Exactly, my vaccinated first year started getting sick Friday, went and got tested immediately, negative with the rapid and confirmed with the PCR .  A good amount of other students are getting the same thing.  Bottom line is kids have been sequestered for 18 months, now they're all living in a communal dorm, normal crud is taking its course in kids that haven't had a lot of contact.  I mean C'mon people, there are viruses in the world other than Covid, stop with the hyperbolic rhetoric about FB games, Trumpers or whatever else you scream about.  Either the vaccinations work or not, get a frigging life and realize sickness is a thing in life and other diseases exist beyond Covid.  Life must continue.[/quote]

As we are seeing with RSV and children, there are definitely consequences to sequestering these students for 18 months. They haven’t been exposed to covid, but they also haven’t been exposed to anything else. It’s not surprising that they’d see a bump in the usual college crud.

Besides, the vast majority of the covid positives at Duke were asymptomatic, and if the positivity rate at UVA is 5%, it’s not likely that they’re missing a ton of cases. [/quote]

I'm the PP, my kid was back up and running in two days.  Sleep, water vitamin C and Zinc, it's going around like wildfire.  Hopefully people start to realize that the vaccines are doing their jobs and we need to be much more measured in our actions moving forward.[/quote]

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