Anonymous wrote:I cannot help but ask why so many people are rooting for ND to fail. If they can contain this...if the illness continues to be flu-like for those affected (as data is showing...mild symptoms lasting 3-5 days)...if the staff and faculty (who are at most risk, yet the best at mitigating risk) are thus far holding strong...if this pioneering experiment is helping to teach peer colleges what and what not to do...why are we not hoping and praying this attempt proves eventually successful?

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot help but ask why so many people are rooting for ND to fail. If they can contain this...if the illness continues to be flu-like for those affected (as data is showing...mild symptoms lasting 3-5 days)...if the staff and faculty (who are at most risk, yet the best at mitigating risk) are thus far holding strong...if this pioneering experiment is helping to teach peer colleges what and what not to do...why are we not hoping and praying this attempt proves eventually successful?

Anti-Catholics and atheists, parents with dim kids at middling diploma mills, and safe bet lots of anti-Trump folks who just want everything to implode leading up to the general election.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot help but ask why so many people are rooting for ND to fail. If they can contain this...if the illness continues to be flu-like for those affected (as data is showing...mild symptoms lasting 3-5 days)...if the staff and faculty (who are at most risk, yet the best at mitigating risk) are thus far holding strong...if this pioneering experiment is helping to teach peer colleges what and what not to do...why are we not hoping and praying this attempt proves eventually successful?

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Anonymous wrote:According to the dashboard, the numbers of COVID cases keep rising, even though the number of tests keep decreasing. This does not bode well.

No. The numbers are relatively flat now. The curve is being flattened. Good job ND.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot help but ask why so many people are rooting for ND to fail. If they can contain this...if the illness continues to be flu-like for those affected (as data is showing...mild symptoms lasting 3-5 days)...if the staff and faculty (who are at most risk, yet the best at mitigating risk) are thus far holding strong...if this pioneering experiment is helping to teach peer colleges what and what not to do...why are we not hoping and praying this attempt proves eventually successful?

Anonymous wrote:I cannot help but ask why so many people are rooting for ND to fail. If they can contain this...if the illness continues to be flu-like for those affected (as data is showing...mild symptoms lasting 3-5 days)...if the staff and faculty (who are at most risk, yet the best at mitigating risk) are thus far holding strong...if this pioneering experiment is helping to teach peer colleges what and what not to do...why are we not hoping and praying this attempt proves eventually successful?

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Anonymous wrote:A group of seniors let a random freshman girl bully them? Sounds made up.

Why? A photo of a group sitting together "socializing" could be incriminating right now. The fact that she was a freshman doesn't matter. It's the photo that matters.

Anonymous wrote:According to the dashboard, the numbers of COVID cases keep rising, even though the number of tests keep decreasing. This does not bode well.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is flattening the curve. Today only 22 cases and positivity of 9% (down from 16% the previous day--which also included testing the football team). These numbers do not include any surveillance testing (which begins today), so that positivity should improve if students can keep it locked down over the weekend.

There is hope on campus. Here is a message from campus leadership and the health department to students this afternoon. Love the positivity. Go Irish. Beat COVID.

It's great is spread is dropping, but aren't students basically confined to dorms right now and not socializing at all, eating meals in their rooms?

If that's what it takes to keep COVID from spreading on campus, are they going to have to continue like that the rest of the semester?

Who knows but a lot of kids would rather be doing that than be at home. It would be great to see them successful in turning it around.

They aren’t going to turn it around. Think of it as the US. As soon as they try to start again after the 14 days, cases will start to rise again. I would love for it to work, but these are college kids and success is dependent on human behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/notredame/comments/idqczz/people_are_legitimately_going_crazy_if_you_havent/

People are legitimately going crazy. If you haven't figured it out yet, we ARE going home.

This is f-ing ridiculous. I was sitting outside in the grass today having just finished eating with the very few people I hang out with these days, our masks were off as we were sipping some water sitting six feet apart (trying to enjoy the last days on campus we more than likely have left as seniors) and a random freshmen girl comes up to us and tells us that if we're done eating we should go back to our rooms. After we say were almost done and don't move, she proceeds to take a god damn picture of us and tell's us she's reporting us for not socially distancing properly?! It's ridiculous that ND has given some sort of power tripping-complex to students, making them think that its the student's fault for letting COVID spread and that it's their duty to snitch on people not following "guidelines."

The Dome has created fear and hostility amongst the student body and instituted a remote learning environment no different than an experience we could have enjoyed from the safety of our own homes. They have actually made some of us think it's our fault. Even without off-campus parties, this shit was bound to happen... entire floors of residence halls have been pseudo quarantined already if u haven't heard. We all f-ing shower, shit, and spit in the same bathrooms; we all live TOGETHER. Doesn't take a biology major to know this was bound to happen, parties or not. They then have the audacity to point to the student body and say WE "need to do better" when they could barely feed their own students put in isolation!? I love ND and I know there are a lot of people just doing their best, but this is embarrassing. Obviously, this is an unprecedented situation but the Dome brought this upon themselves as soon as they forced students to return and offered no remote learning options.

At this point, I question why they even lie to us. They expect students to look forward to sitting in their rooms all day just so we can have the chance to occasionally go to in-person classes where we sit 6 feet apart and not socialize with anyone? That's our f-ing reward for sitting in our rooms for two weeks, just so we can risk it all happening again. F no. If you haven't caught on by now, ND is "surveillance testing" not so we can go back to in-person classes, but so they can send us home without looking entirely irresponsible. "uR cLEan, gO HoMe pLz" <- that'll be the message in 1-2 weeks. Guarantee people who test negative will be encouraged to get off campus as soon as possible. The story now is just a cover so people don't start panicking/trying to move off early.

Yeah, this is a f-ing rant, but ND literally killed any semblance of a fun or at least comfortable senior year for me. Just let me have this.

Reminds me of the Hitler youth or the Soviets. Report, report, report. Honestly people. Get off the edge. For this age group. The risks are low.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/notredame/comments/idqczz/people_are_legitimately_going_crazy_if_you_havent/

People are legitimately going crazy. If you haven't figured it out yet, we ARE going home.

This is f-ing ridiculous. I was sitting outside in the grass today having just finished eating with the very few people I hang out with these days, our masks were off as we were sipping some water sitting six feet apart (trying to enjoy the last days on campus we more than likely have left as seniors) and a random freshmen girl comes up to us and tells us that if we're done eating we should go back to our rooms. After we say were almost done and don't move, she proceeds to take a god damn picture of us and tell's us she's reporting us for not socially distancing properly?! It's ridiculous that ND has given some sort of power tripping-complex to students, making them think that its the student's fault for letting COVID spread and that it's their duty to snitch on people not following "guidelines."

The Dome has created fear and hostility amongst the student body and instituted a remote learning environment no different than an experience we could have enjoyed from the safety of our own homes. They have actually made some of us think it's our fault. Even without off-campus parties, this shit was bound to happen... entire floors of residence halls have been pseudo quarantined already if u haven't heard. We all f-ing shower, shit, and spit in the same bathrooms; we all live TOGETHER. Doesn't take a biology major to know this was bound to happen, parties or not. They then have the audacity to point to the student body and say WE "need to do better" when they could barely feed their own students put in isolation!? I love ND and I know there are a lot of people just doing their best, but this is embarrassing. Obviously, this is an unprecedented situation but the Dome brought this upon themselves as soon as they forced students to return and offered no remote learning options.

At this point, I question why they even lie to us. They expect students to look forward to sitting in their rooms all day just so we can have the chance to occasionally go to in-person classes where we sit 6 feet apart and not socialize with anyone? That's our f-ing reward for sitting in our rooms for two weeks, just so we can risk it all happening again. F no. If you haven't caught on by now, ND is "surveillance testing" not so we can go back to in-person classes, but so they can send us home without looking entirely irresponsible. "uR cLEan, gO HoMe pLz" <- that'll be the message in 1-2 weeks. Guarantee people who test negative will be encouraged to get off campus as soon as possible. The story now is just a cover so people don't start panicking/trying to move off early.

Yeah, this is a f-ing rant, but ND literally killed any semblance of a fun or at least comfortable senior year for me. Just let me have this.