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Anonymous wrote:In the broader community out there, no one is wearing masks. It's going to explode out of the college and into rural communities in a bad way.

Not where I live (montgomery county md).

Unless I am in a park.on a trail, everyone wears a mask all of the time (in stores, offices, urban streets, etc)

This PP is referring to Montgomery County VA which is where VT is located. It’s a very red area. An outbreak that spreads from campus to the community would be a disaster if the locals aren’t taking things seriously. It really is a different world down there compared to the DC area.

Anonymous wrote:Public dashboards are dumb. All they do is provide fodder for gossip, social media and news outlets that serves no purpose. The universities are accountable to their students and staff, not a bunch of fear-mongering talking heads. If there’s news, you’ll hear it from your kid, and if your kid isn’t at Virginia Tech, we’ll, this doesn’t concern you.

Oh, for God's sake. Of course it concerns them. Community spread of an infectious disease (as, sadly, colleges are not in some impermeable bubble, and it takes precisely one case going off campus, whether "allowed" or "not allowed," to create rampant spread in the larger community and in the relatively small state) is most assuredly everyone's "concern." Boundary lines on maps mean nothing. The virus doesn't care.

Anonymous wrote:In the broader community out there, no one is wearing masks. It's going to explode out of the college and into rural communities in a bad way.

Not where I live (montgomery county md).

Unless I am in a park.on a trail, everyone wears a mask all of the time (in stores, offices, urban streets, etc)

VT has a big off campus party culture. There is no way there aren’t going to be outbreaks. Everyone sending their kid to a large state school is absolutely fooling themselves. This virus is just too damn contagious. It doesn’t matter if the vast majority are asymptomatic or mildly ill. If a lot of cases pop up the school and county health department WILL freak out and shut things down. The NRV is not big enough to handle a ton of COVID hospitalizations and they have to protect the local community.

I feel for parents of college aged kids. It’s just a really unlucky time to have kids this age. I’m a professor who graduated from VT and I feel the same way about having young elementary kids during this pandemic. They aren’t going to be getting the experiences we had and the experiences they need. I try not to let myself dwell on it too much because it’s really sad. I do think all the young people being adversely affected by the shutdowns will gain resilience from this, if us older people help model it.

Anonymous wrote:They are more interested in diversity than elitism. They will give a kid a chance who hasn’t had the preparation the over-advantaged DCUM crew spits out. If they can hang in with the first year course work, they can stay in engineering, etc. It’s a great way to mine more brains: give them opportunities. Easier to gain admission than some places, way harder to graduate from -in engineering and science- than many.

Little if this is relavant to what will happen with COVID spread.

And I think that's a good thing. Let the kids prove themselves as young adults rather than cull them based on their 7th grade math placement.

They are more interested in diversity than elitism. They will give a kid a chance who hasn’t had the preparation the over-advantaged DCUM crew spits out. If they can hang in with the first year course work, they can stay in engineering, etc. It’s a great way to mine more brains: give them opportunities. Easier to gain admission than some places, way harder to graduate from -in engineering and science- than many.

Little if this is relavant to what will happen with COVID spread.

Looking at the daily data Virginia by zip code shows 10 cases in Blacksburg: a three sigma event. I am not sure if those are from incomming student survialance or community spread.

https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/08/daily-status-august-21.html

Oh good, it only took two pages to reach the “so hard to get in” conversation we’ve had a hundred times already.

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Anonymous wrote:In the broader community out there, no one is wearing masks. It's going to explode out of the college and into rural communities in a bad way.

But from the dashboard, it looks like no one is coming in with it. Where would it come from?

I don't think VT required testing prior to showing up on campus.

My daughter’s friends are in off campus apartments. When they were over here last week they were talking about how testing isn’t required and they were going to skip it.

I thought VT students were supposed to be smart.

Nah...easy school to get into.

I’ve heard of kids with 4+ gpa and 1400+ SAT get rejected

Asian applicant?

White males, engineering

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Anonymous wrote:In the broader community out there, no one is wearing masks. It's going to explode out of the college and into rural communities in a bad way.

But from the dashboard, it looks like no one is coming in with it. Where would it come from?

I don't think VT required testing prior to showing up on campus.

My daughter’s friends are in off campus apartments. When they were over here last week they were talking about how testing isn’t required and they were going to skip it.

I thought VT students were supposed to be smart.

Nah...easy school to get into.

I’ve heard of kids with 4+ gpa and 1400+ SAT get rejected

Asian applicant?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the broader community out there, no one is wearing masks. It's going to explode out of the college and into rural communities in a bad way.

But from the dashboard, it looks like no one is coming in with it. Where would it come from?

I don't think VT required testing prior to showing up on campus.

My daughter’s friends are in off campus apartments. When they were over here last week they were talking about how testing isn’t required and they were going to skip it.

I thought VT students were supposed to be smart.

Nah...easy school to get into.

I’ve heard of kids with 4+ gpa and 1400+ SAT get rejected

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Anonymous wrote:In the broader community out there, no one is wearing masks. It's going to explode out of the college and into rural communities in a bad way.

But from the dashboard, it looks like no one is coming in with it. Where would it come from?

I don't think VT required testing prior to showing up on campus.

My daughter’s friends are in off campus apartments. When they were over here last week they were talking about how testing isn’t required and they were going to skip it.

I thought VT students were supposed to be smart.

Nah...easy school to get into.

I’ve heard of kids with 4+ gpa and 1400+ SAT get rejected