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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JMU did not require students test before arriving, did not test them as soon as they arrived, and had no plan to do regular testing of everyone. It said it would only test symptomatic students. By the time you're symptomatic you have already been infectious possibly for quite s few days without knowing it so you've gone around spreading the virus.

Of course this was going to happen there.

Meanwhile my friend is a staffer at a college (not in VA) [b]where they are testing all students every 10 days all semester long, and all staff every 14 days. So far, so good. My own DC at a small college (also not VA) had to send a negative test result from home before coming on campus, was tested immediately on arrival and has been tested twice since that first campus test. Also so far, so good. If a student at either of the colleges tests positive they're immediately escorted to a quarantine dorm already set aside for this. [/b]

Smaller schools with the ability to test often and arrangements for quarantine may be able to manage this. Huge schools that decide just to "let it rip," like JMU apparently has, can't manage. At least some other large universities have tried with tests etc. JMU seems appallingly awful re: testing. [/quote]

Where would JMU get the money to pay for all this testing? They should have required a negative test before starting but there are also students who live year round off campus in Harrisonburg. Really only freshman live on campus. It would have been nearly impossible for them to stay on top of this with the state of testing in VA right now.[/quote]

That's the whole point of my post. Smaller schools that can afford testing will possibly be able to have on-campus life. Huge ones like JMU that can't afford enough testing (and that somehow didn't think to require families to pay extra so the colleges could test all semester long) are not going to make it. As JMU's decision to go virtual has shown.

And the idea is to test all students -- including and especially the ones living off campus.

JMU should have known that (to use your words) "it would have been nearly impossible for them to stay on top of this with the state of testing in VA right now." They never should have reopened in person at all.

As for the state of testing in VA -- an earlier PP said JMU was depending on tests done in the community. Is that accurate? Were students told just to go to whatever CVS or urgent care place they could find to get their own tests [i]once they were back at JMU[/i]? Were kids responsible for reporting results to JMU themselves, if tests were done not by the university but by any random testing place a student could locate? I'm asking seriously, someone please post how that was supposed to work. We had to get our DC a test here however we could , but that was for a single test before arriving on campus. All other tests are done by the campus health service. Did JMU have its own testiing or not? I'm not clear on that, I only know they were planning to test only if a student was symptomatic.

DC's college contracted with two different testing vendors back in midsummer to ensure it would have enough tests and swift processing and results return. Some other colleges have converted science department labs for covid testing so they can test on campus and process the tests right there. Was JMU doing nothing like any of this? [/quote]

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