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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]
I love how people think that there are no “elders” on college campuses. Forget professors. Who do you suppose is working in the dining halls making sure your kid has food three times a day or cleaning your kid’s dorm bathroom? Plenty of universities just threw their frontline staff under the bus during this pandemic and you won’t see that on any of their Covid dashboards.

I don’t disagree with you about the importance of in-person education, especially given the dire state of mental health among college students right now. But you’re deceiving yourself if you think that it’s actually reducing overall risk instead of just offloading it onto people you never think about. [/quote]

Can’t the elders receive vaccines and boosters?  Don’t they work?  If not, then why is the university forcing all students to receive one?  Sorry but none of this is making any sense, especially the all-boosted campuses going virtual.  This is clown world. [/quote]

You really don't understand pandemics and disease transmission. Yes, vaccines and boosters work. But, with this latest omicron mutation (thanks unvaccinated, non-distanced, unmasked folk for letting it breed and mutate) is not as deterred by the vaccine. Thankfully, it is not as deadly, and the vaccines to give some protection and help mitigate symptoms and severity. But, omicron is highly contagious, hospitals are filling up, and people are still at risk.  Also, it looks like it will move on quickly, so if we can just batten down the hatches for a bit, that will help.

It stinks but will hopefully be short-lived.[/quote]

Except that is not the case.  No matter how much you say it, it doesn’t make it true.  And no matter how much Pfizer wants to push that narrative, it is wrong to say that unvaccinated individuals are causing variants.  Viruses naturally mutate.

Variants have been arising overseas, not from the pockets of unvaccinated individuals here in the US.  Many experts have said that the variants are arising due to immune compromised individuals.

You are the one who clearly doesn’t understand how diseases work.  You can mask forever and Covid will still be around.  You can shut down everything, and Covid will be there when you reopen.  [/quote]

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