All the pandemic closures are CYA, starting from the whitehouse on down.

Anonymous wrote:OP, come on. This isn’t hard. We need the kids spread out. Not all living in the same small area. There is no way the hospital in most college towns could handle that many cases.

Except those kids are at low risk to themselves and each other. It is their role as carrier to adults that is a problem. I agree with PP that this was a liability CYA. This did nothing to help the United States fight a pandemic.

A dorm is like a cruise ship. Not stupid. My kid came home for during break and just never went back to school. It was the right call.

Dorm communal bathrooms. Ugh.

I was going to suggest that his university rename the dorms Imperial Princess 1, Imperial Princess 2 and so on because that’s what they would become: cruise ships that allow the spread of COVID-19 to rage. They finally got the sense to close the dorms.

OP, come on. This isn’t hard. We need the kids spread out. Not all living in the same small area. There is no way the hospital in most college towns could handle that many cases.

It’s imbeciles like the OP that got us in this fix......so much stupid.

Anonymous wrote:
No, colleges cannot police thousands of youngsters sharing rooms, socializing and falling sick. Better they go home to their families where social distancing might be better.

College dorms are a worst case coronavirus spreading scenario. Imagine if a few kids in a dorm got it. The whole dorm would.

That said, the reason the colleges closed was because the college faces major in loco parentis liability if kids were to get it. Businesses wouldn't get sued by their employees parents if their workers got sick. But colleges would get sued, successfully, by their students' parents.

The overwhelming majority of college students are adults. It is not the colleges' fault they can't behave like it.

No, it is not stupid. It's impossible to practice social distancing on a college campus where they sleep, eat, bathe, and study in communal spaces.

No, colleges cannot police thousands of youngsters sharing rooms, socializing and falling sick. Better they go home to their families where social distancing might be better.

Most college just either extended spring break or let them out a week early.

Keeping those students on campus would have had the same effect as the 10% infection rate on the cruise ships.

Better that they go home to their local communities. I know my city is less congested without the population of an extra 30,000 people who were enrolled in universities and colleges.

Can you imagine if Texas A&M had stayed open? They have 70,000 students by themselves!

Spring break happens either way?

It was spring break. They would have been there anyway.

Rather than “stay in place” we released millions of kids (hello Florida!) on the rest of the population. We should have kept them on campus.