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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well their numbers the week were better than they were the week before.  We'll give them another week but I'm not expecting all the drama everyone lashed out at them about.

I'm not a ND fan but I am so pulling for them to crush this year because everyone is squawking at them.  The kids are happy on campus and having classes far better than most colleges.  They are not killing off their professors and the neighboring townsfolk as was predicted.  They are diagnostic and surveillance testing responsibly and reacting appropriately as needed.  By having some semblance of a residential year the school is not hemorrhaging the millions and millions of dollars that other schools are.  Honestly - to be they are showing up a lot of other schools who couldn't be bothered to try to make it work and will be crying for funds [/b]next year. [/quote]

[b]+100 My son is there and he is having a blast...relatively speaking.  Being able to experience that game last week is going to be unforgetable.  He is working hard, spending time with his good friends in his bubble, and getting ready for exam week and to head home.  I couldn't be prouder of him and am grateful he is having some semblance of normal.  it is going to be a rough couple of months being stuck at home, but hoping he can get back again in February.[/quote][b]

Stop Notre Dame Mom! Listen to yourself:  “My son .. this and that” “Me me me”. Where is the concern for others and responsible behavior? I don’t care how happy your son are is at Notre Dame. How can you be so selfish? This has been awful for the community. First the football team gets it. Then Fr. John gets it at the mask-less White House party. Now this irresponsible surge into the field! Yes cases are up in Indiana. More cases on the football team were announced this past week. Fr. John called the surge onto the field “disappointing” last Friday. And three days ago Coach Kelly said Notre Dane “ wasn’t doing enough” to confront the virus. This is a PR disaster and is not helped by moms bragging how much fun their son is having -without any regard for anyone else - at Notre Dame. Button it.[/quote]

Why?  It is true.  He has classes in person (4 out of 5).  He is living with his roommates on campus (not sitting at a computer in the basement).  He is going to football games!!  He got to see ND beat Clemson.  He is independent and living college life.  Hey, he even can sit by a fire pit right outside his dorm.  All good.  Some people got sick.  We knew that was going to happen.  DS hasn't been contact traced or gotten the virus, so he is going to come home next week without having missed a beat during the semester.  COVID is not killing students.  Nobody at ND has died from COVID.  Why don't you "button it" PP.
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ND Alum and former South Bend resident here.  Glad things have gone well for your son and that he has been able to enjoy some of this weird college semester of Covid. But please get a clue!  Notre Dame has been the poster child for hypocrisy this fall. From its decision to reopen solely for football glory/money while pretending to care about its students/the larger community to Fr. Jenkins throwing self control out the window because he got to visit the White House, it's been a disgusting spectacle.

Covid cases from nearby Elkhart, IN, where hospitals are over capacity are already being transferred to St. Joseph Hospital not too far from Notre Dame. Meanwhile, the populations of South Bend, Mishawaka and Granger, as well as nearby Niles, MI are holding their collective breaths that students head for home for break before setting off another Covid explosion. I have two kids in colleges out east in places where cases are much lower than Indiana who have had all online classes. One is a Div 1 athlete who has not been allowed to do his sport since last February. Neither of these universities are Catholic schools that pretend to stand for something. But I'd argue that my kids are getting a better lesson in sacrificing for the common good than any student at ND. The school and its leaders should be ashamed. Most alums I know are.    [/quote]

I’m not affiliated with ND but I’m in South Bend near the university. Students are out and about all over the area without masks, masks under their chins, etc. to be fair, a lot of the general population is doing the same thing. Bars and restaurants are packed on the weekend. The parking lot for the mall was nearly full this afternoon when I drove by.

The hospital situation here is scary. For now they have beds in the county, but they don’t have staff.

Is this all attributable to ND? No. Is some of it? Yes. There’s no way college kids without masks at bars and restaurants and hanging out  in groups at CVS without masks is not contributing to signify the community spread.

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