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[quote=Anonymous]There is some good creative thinking on here, but speaking from the college world most of it is simply not possible to implement, at most schools, under most circumstances. It requires a complete rethinking of infrastructure in a context where most responsibilities cannot just be exchanged. Staff at every level and in every division are specialized, from union electricians to certified food-service employees. Faculty cannot just teach extra class sessions to shrink groups to social-distancing levels, especially since their own children may end up on staggered school schedules at home. And hiring additional staff is probably not feasible in many places after the millions of dollars that were already lost this spring. (No "oh poor us" here, btw, just mathematics.)

Perhaps most fundamentally, in-person college this fall requires a critical mass of the faculty to be willing to endanger themselves. That goes for everyone from the adjuncts to the tenured to, perhaps most disturbingly, the graduate students.

All of this aside, though, just a simple thought experiment: will all college undergraduates around the country agree to stay 6 feet away from all other college undergraduates at all times? If they will not, they stand a good chance of accidentally harming others, especially the older faculty whose teaching is in theory part of the reason why they are going to school in the first place.[/quote]

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