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Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

And that's why they are running UVA and people like you are not. You reaad a couple of click- and view-bait headlines, but have little understanding of just how low the risk of coronavirus is to young adults. Infertility? What are you even talking about?

Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

Read UVAs social media posts to get educated if you want to follow it. The higher numbers follow some under-reported days. They are also testing wastewater and doing proactive testing of dorms to catch asymptomatic cases. I see the neighboring health district has a positivity test only around 4.4%.

There's been only 24 deaths in Albemarle county. I'm in Charlottesville now. It is not a big deal at all unless you fall into the high risk group at which you should be taking precautions. Remember also the best hospital in the state is here.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

Shut it down....and then what?
Tons of students are still in town. They are leasing local group houses/apartments and no way will local landlords let them out of the lease. So now you have a whole bunch of young people hanging around with no classes and plenty of flexibility/time to party!

By "shut it down" I don't mean to send students home. I mean that they need to close a number of common areas to students, make all classes virtual (if there are in person classes), have strict rules about students staying in their own dorms (no visitors outside of dorm) and no students mingling in each others' rooms within a dorm. This is what Notre Dame did, and they were very successful. They opened back up on September 2, and case count continues to be low and positivity rate is around 1%. You say it is business as usual. Let's hope their case count doesn't explode.

I'm the Pp you quoted here.

I didn't say it was business as usual. That was a different poster.
I don't have a student at UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

Shut it down....and then what?
Tons of students are still in town. They are leasing local group houses/apartments and no way will local landlords let them out of the lease. So now you have a whole bunch of young people hanging around with no classes and plenty of flexibility/time to party!

By "shut it down" I don't mean to send students home. I mean that they need to close a number of common areas to students, make all classes virtual (if there are in person classes), have strict rules about students staying in their own dorms (no visitors outside of dorm) and no students mingling in each others' rooms within a dorm. This is what Notre Dame did, and they were very successful. They opened back up on September 2, and case count continues to be low and positivity rate is around 1%. You say it is business as usual. Let's hope their case count doesn't explode.

Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

Shut it down....and then what?
Tons of students are still in town. They are leasing local group houses/apartments and no way will local landlords let them out of the lease. So now you have a whole bunch of young people hanging around with no classes and plenty of flexibility/time to party!

Anonymous wrote:Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

You have no idea what is going on in other campuses do you? This is nothing. My kid's there right now. Having dinner with a Dean tonight. It's business as usual but care is being taken.

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Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

+1. Only 60 cases on Dec. 19th? no story here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Yes. But also...college kids’ getting it IS a big deal. Just because their death rates are low doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk, particularly for long-term effects like cardiac damage, neurological damage, and infertility. Every day we’re learning new things about this disease. Having students live in a communal environment is just so irresponsible right now. I’m a UVA alum and inclined to defend the school, but I am so disappointed in how they’ve handled this situation.

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Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

But they spread to the communities and employees.

This may not be as much of a factor in Charlottesville, but for other large universities, the local community's economy depends on the university.
Shut down the campus, and MANY people will be out of a job (dorm and academic building housekeeping/janitors, maintenance workers, dining services, probably lots more I'm not thinking of) just on campus. And even OFF campus places like the local pizza places/taco shops/sushi restaurants, barber shops, etc.

I live here and yes it’s a factor in Charlottesville!

Yikes over 100 cases in the past two recorded days? This is most definitely a spike that they should be worried about. The need to shut it down. Are they having in person classes?

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Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

But they spread to the communities and employees.

This may not be as much of a factor in Charlottesville, but for other large universities, the local community's economy depends on the university.
Shut down the campus, and MANY people will be out of a job (dorm and academic building housekeeping/janitors, maintenance workers, dining services, probably lots more I'm not thinking of) just on campus. And even OFF campus places like the local pizza places/taco shops/sushi restaurants, barber shops, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Don't be an idiot. Of course it can be. But OP's point that UVA is seeing 23 cases a day -- out of 17,000 undergraduate students plus who knows how many more on campus for grad programs - is nothing.

They saw 60 cases on Friday. If they are trending toward that, and are not testing everyone every couple of days, they could have many more positive. So the next few days will be telling. You can tell they are trying to head things off by testing dorm waste water, which is good. But most students live off campus.

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

But they spread to the communities and employees.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College students getting it is not that big a deal. It just isn’t.

+1. Stop trying to make this into a big deal, OP. It's not.

oh, do college students get a version of the virus that magically cannot be
transmitted to anyone except college students?

Do you know what "quarantine" means?

Ha, as if college students are quarantining effectively.

Everyone I know who lives in college towns or teach at universities in person are really worried.

I'm "really worried" about the exploding national debt, which is arguably a much bigger problem than COVID-19.

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