Anonymous wrote:My 2021 senior is planning to take a gap year and go abroad. It’s something he’s always wanted to do. And hopefully by fall of 2022, the Covid situation will be even better than in 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:If a college requires a vaccine why would they still insist on masks?

Because the vaccine isn’t 100% protective, especially against new variants. An acquaintance’s vaccinated doctor just contracted Covid and may have passed it to patients.

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Anonymous wrote:If a college requires a vaccine why would they still insist on masks?

Because the vaccine isn’t 100% protective, especially against new variants. An acquaintance’s vaccinated doctor just contracted Covid and may have passed it to patients.

“May have?” “An acquaintance?”

Please stop it. Your chance of getting covid if you’re vaccinated is 0.05% (NOT 5% — zero point zero five percent). All of the evidence so far is that vaccinated people do not have sufficient viral load to spread covid. If you’re vaccinated, your chance of being sick enough to require hospital care is zero, even if you’re not 18 years old (where it was effectively zero to begin with).

If you want to, you can wrap your children in cotton batting and lock them in the house, but please stop spreading nonsense.

Source? I had read 5% everywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:If a college requires a vaccine why would they still insist on masks?

Because the vaccine isn’t 100% protective, especially against new variants. An acquaintance’s vaccinated doctor just contracted Covid and may have passed it to patients.

“May have?” “An acquaintance?”

Please stop it. Your chance of getting covid if you’re vaccinated is 0.05% (NOT 5% — zero point zero five percent). All of the evidence so far is that vaccinated people do not have sufficient viral load to spread covid. If you’re vaccinated, your chance of being sick enough to require hospital care is zero, even if you’re not 18 years old (where it was effectively zero to begin with).

If you want to, you can wrap your children in cotton batting and lock them in the house, but please stop spreading nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a college requires a vaccine why would they still insist on masks?

Because the vaccine isn’t 100% protective, especially against new variants. An acquaintance’s vaccinated doctor just contracted Covid and may have passed it to patients.

“May have?” “An acquaintance?”

Please stop it. Your chance of getting covid if you’re vaccinated is 0.05% (NOT 5% — zero point zero five percent). All of the evidence so far is that vaccinated people do not have sufficient viral load to spread covid. If you’re vaccinated, your chance of being sick enough to require hospital care is zero, even if you’re not 18 years old (where it was effectively zero to begin with).

If you want to, you can wrap your children in cotton batting and lock them in the house, but please stop spreading nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:If a college requires a vaccine why would they still insist on masks?

Because the vaccine isn’t 100% protective, especially against new variants. An acquaintance’s vaccinated doctor just contracted Covid and may have passed it to patients.

Anonymous wrote:If a college requires a vaccine why would they still insist on masks?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know if UMD is going to be totally back to normal in the fall.

I work at UMD. The President has announced that courses will be in-person in Fall 2021, with social distancing and masks. The campus will follow CDC guidelines for percent capacity in lecture halls. It is expected that the CDC will apply to universities the 3-foot distancing requirement they already announced for K-12, which would mean lecture halls can operate at 50% capacity. This might mean some large lecture courses remain online or partly online.

Anonymous wrote:The fall is not going to be like pre-Covid, that said I think that most schools at this point are anticipating in-person instruction and students living on campus at normal density. I think it’s actually going to be quite an interesting year which will probably begin with a decent number of restrictions but I think over the time will really start to feel very normal again. My DD deferred this year because her school was clear that the entire year all classes would be online and freshman would only be on campus for fall semester so it didn’t seem worth it. I think next year will be very different though and everybody will be really excited to start living normally again so it could be kind of a fun year.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if UMD is going to be totally back to normal in the fall.