Anonymous wrote:My friend tells me that Georgetown's Board keeps pushing for them to open ($$$$$), while DC (who has final word) keeps saying no, it's not safe (ie: since the pandemic is still happening and "leaders" are pushing for little or no change).

Seems the schools that are pushing to open are looking at the bottom line, trying to justify the students paying full tuition for online classes.

Maybe Georgetown and other DC privates are looking at DC’s low positivity rate and their own near unlimited funds to modify as necessary and think they could give it a safe go.

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Anonymous wrote:CDC is throwing in the towel.

I guess, at this point, the US deserves to be a failed state.

Isn’t this exactly what Donald’s wanted to do for months? Because, less testing, less cases.

+1

I’m surprised people are surprised at this insanity.

So sad that this Bozo is in charge at this time in history.

And that his corrupt minions were able to manipulate our formerly world class agencies: like the CDC.

This is just giving up to the pandemic.

Sends an awful message to exposed people, and will REALLY speed up spread. Feels so hopeless.

My friend tells me that Georgetown's Board keeps pushing for them to open ($$$$$), while DC (who has final word) keeps saying no, it's not safe (ie: since the pandemic is still happening and "leaders" are pushing for little or no change).

Seems the schools that are pushing to open are looking at the bottom line, trying to justify the students paying full tuition for online classes.

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Anonymous wrote:CDC is throwing in the towel.

I guess, at this point, the US deserves to be a failed state.

Isn’t this exactly what Donald’s wanted to do for months? Because, less testing, less cases.

+1

Anonymous wrote:CDC is throwing in the towel.

I guess, at this point, the US deserves to be a failed state.

They would literally rather have the virus spread around without knowing just so this administration can say that they brought the number of cases down.

Anonymous wrote:CDC is throwing in the towel.

I guess, at this point, the US deserves to be a failed state.

Isn’t this exactly what Donald’s wanted to do for months? Because, less testing, less cases.

Yep. I give up.

CDC is throwing in the towel.

I guess, at this point, the US deserves to be a failed state.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a little confused about the 7 people in the dorm room part of this story.

In my kid's school, you are not allowed to have guests/friends in your room.

At my kid's school, they had the same rule but parents were outraged and complained. Kids have been violating this right and left and have even had parents hanging out sleeping over last weekend.

WTF...helicopter parenting has gotten so bad that they are sleeping in their kids' dorm rooms?! Not only would I never consider this since it's time for those strings to be cut, but also my kids would never allow it! Bizarre!

Be nice. Some parents had a drive that was too long to do without an overnight.

At my kids large state university, it seemed to be a thing with moms of girls at the university. Moms post about it on the parents page. I'm coming to realize most of the parents who post pictures of things, other than complaints, are attention seekers.

What happened to getting a hotel room?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a little confused about the 7 people in the dorm room part of this story.

In my kid's school, you are not allowed to have guests/friends in your room.

At my kid's school, they had the same rule but parents were outraged and complained. Kids have been violating this right and left and have even had parents hanging out sleeping over last weekend.

WTF...helicopter parenting has gotten so bad that they are sleeping in their kids' dorm rooms?! Not only would I never consider this since it's time for those strings to be cut, but also my kids would never allow it! Bizarre!

Be nice. Some parents had a drive that was too long to do without an overnight.

At my kids large state university, it seemed to be a thing with moms of girls at the university. Moms post about it on the parents page. I'm coming to realize most of the parents who post pictures of things, other than complaints, are attention seekers.

Anonymous wrote:UMW delayed move-in and moved first three weeks almost exclusively online. Most classes are already online.

UVA doing similar delayed move-in.

This IMHO is playing it smart...waiting to see how it plays out at VaTech, JMU, VCU before moving students on campus.

W&M had freshman move in, but delayed everyone else until Sept 8 (and all classes are remote until Sept 8). They have had very few cases so far, though they had a few parties broken up like everywhere else. They started prevalence testing 8/24 so that may show different results, but they will know where things stand before the bigger wave of students come.

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Anonymous wrote:The schools should just stay open. They should have spent time expanding their on campus health centers for respond 24/7 and added some isolation rooms monitored by health staff for very sick patients to stay in until they could be transferred to a hospital. It appears by all accounts that college age students become ill with less severity and yes the illness seems in line with flu or pneumonia or mono - for this age group. Anyone of those illnesses just like Covid can be more severe and turn deadly but it’s the exception and not the rule.

For the 11 billionth time it isn’t about the students. It is about all the staff who work at those colleges - who the college is obligated to provide with a reasonably safe workplace. It is also about the health care workers. The US hospital system isn’t built for surges in severe respiratory cases. It would be economically stupid to maintain that — so now we have to try and manage the caseload.

As for campuses most people with COVId take care of themselves. At home. Schools don’t run infirmaries and don’t need to start running them for people with highly infectious respiratory diseases. Students need to isolate, use a pulse oximeter and have food dropped off. The student health center should do a telehealth visit dailyit escalates they head to the hospital.

If you or your student can’t handle that, take a leave.

For the 11 billionth time, one doesn't drop dead because they walked in the same room with someone with Covid. One actually has to have some pretty fair exposure. In a lecture hall, with everyone in masks, the exposure is low. I know - the ventilation! Because everyone is now some scientist because they "read an article" . Except even scientist don't have agreement and there isn't that much testing on a large scale going on.

This just in from UMW.....

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Here are some important aspects of student responsibility to note at this time:
• Today, August 24, is the deadline for students to complete the COVID training module. If you have not already done so, please complete your training, previously sent to you over email by Dean Rucker.
• Students are scheduled to begin returning to campus in less than three weeks. Our plan calls for students, faculty and staff to restrict their travel and any high-risk activities, and to limit their interaction with other people, for two weeks prior to arrival on campus.
• At all times, it is important to embrace the policy of Monitoring, Masking, Distancing and Cleaning, to best mitigate the risks of the spread of COVID in our community.
• Here is the way to report COVID concerns about yourself or another individual. You may do so anonymously, though an anonymous report may limit how fully we are able to respond.
• If UMW becomes aware of a community member (student, staff member, faculty member) who is repeatedly violating our expectations of following UMW’s public health guidelines, we will hold that person accountable. For students, this includes possible suspension from UMW.

^^PP here...I'll add...

The schools that tested students prior to move-in, while good in theory, I think made it worse....creating a false sense of security.