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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why my DD applied to colleges in the south[/quote]

Why?

Because the virus only attacks in states that aren't in the south? Wow, all those reports about hospitals closing in some southern states due to covid-caused overcrowding must have been false!

Or because you assume colleges in the south are...not very good at taking a pandemic seriously? So you can be assured your kid will go to class in person even if a virus is tearing through campus?

Either way, you're pretty ignorant and allowed your child to continue that tradition. Congrats. [/quote]

DP.  Also glad my DC is only applying in the South.

Because the schools in the South actually believed in and followed science. Interesting that you’re not citing data about Covid hospitalizations and severe illness (or lack thereof) on college campuses in the South. That would be because the schools did just fine, and avoided the epidemic of depression on northern campuses that locked students in their rooms.  Not to mention that they actually educated their students. The students were better off on campus, socializing with kids their own age, who were all at low risk for Covid, rather than hanging out at home, spreading the virus to their elders.

Interesting how, now that Covid is rampant in the NE and DC, Covid spread is no longer caused by moral failure (And don’t say “but Omicron!” — Delta is still around in the North, and that is the cause of most of the hospitalizations).  [/quote]

So true.

I have family in Florida and it is a much different world than here in the DMV.  And comparing Florida to NY, it’s clear the heavy-handed policies of New York haven’t made enough of a difference to justify the disruptions. [/quote]

about the bold -- Covid spread is definitely caused by moral failure, no matter what part of the country you're talking about. The moral failure is not on the part of the vaccinated who are getting breakthroughs of omicron. It's a failure on the parts of the unvaxxed who shrugged and let Covid mutate and spread into a version that breaks through and infects those who did everything right -- not just for themselves but for public health.

So strange that some of you are turning this into a weird South vs. North issue. If you want to send your kids to schools in the South based on how you feel specific schools handled Covid, great, but this nonsensical "North bad, South good" talk has nothing to do with colleges and everything to do with pretending that certain Southern states are now somehow vindicated because people in Northern states are getting Covid. 
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Yes. this. Also, I would add failing to take precautions like wearing masks in public during this new strain which is highly contagious. It's so easy to look out for one another this way. I don't understand why some people make this so hard.[/quote]

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