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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I didn’t know any better, I’d say we don’t know what the f*ck we’re doing.

Well, yeah. Universities, especially large public universities, are controlled by idiot backwater crony paper pushers who spend decades in an Ivory Tower bubble. Recent case study would be Michigan State University's handling of the Larry Nassar pedophile scandal.

Look at the Georgia University System. One would have thought a school like Georgia Tech full of scientists and engineers would know better.

They do know better. The University System made them reopen. Georgia is a red state, and the governor wants everything open,no matter what.

Glad JMU is doing the right thing now.

Anonymous wrote:*scratches JMU off the list for where to apply this year*

People apply to JMU? I always thought it was just where you ended up at the last minute. Enroll and pay sort of thing.

Anonymous wrote:The people who say they won't let their kids apply will probably let their kids apply to Penn St and Michigan St

Next year should look different with a vaccine hopefully available by then.

Anonymous wrote:VA Tech is only reporting once a week, but on Monday they had 157 positives with a 15% positivity rate. Aren't they going down the same path as JMU?

Looking at the dashboards, Tech did much less testing last week which significantly affected the % reported in comparison. I don't see their isolation capacity reported which must factor largely into decisions. They may be ok so far.
JMU appears to be at half capacity so I see why sending students home was at least an option on the table. Tough call.

It's also difficult when much of the spread is off campus and those students will remain in their leases regardless.

The people who say they won't let their kids apply will probably let their kids apply to Penn St and Michigan St

JMU did not require students test before arriving, did not test them as soon as they arrived, and had no plan to do regular testing of everyone. It said it would only test symptomatic students. By the time you're symptomatic you have already been infectious possibly for quite s few days without knowing it so you've gone around spreading the virus.

Of course this was going to happen there.

Meanwhile my friend is a staffer at a college (not in VA) where they are testing all students every 10 days all semester long, and all staff every 14 days. So far, so good. My own DC at a small college (also not VA) had to send a negative test result from home before coming on campus, was tested immediately on arrival and has been tested twice since that first campus test. Also so far, so good. If a student at either of the colleges tests positive they're immediately escorted to a quarantine dorm already set aside for this.

Smaller schools with the ability to test often and arrangements for quarantine may be able to manage this. Huge schools that decide just to "let it rip," like JMU apparently has, can't manage. At least some other large universities have tried with tests etc. JMU seems appallingly awful re: testing.

VA Tech is only reporting once a week, but on Monday they had 157 positives with a 15% positivity rate. Aren't they going down the same path as JMU?

Anonymous wrote:Check Duke's COVID tracker.

What's interesting there is the faculty seem to have had a much higher positive rate at 1.3% than students at 0.2%.

Check Duke's COVID tracker.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I didn’t know any better, I’d say we don’t know what the f*ck we’re doing.

Well, yeah. Universities, especially large public universities, are controlled by idiot backwater crony paper pushers who spend decades in an Ivory Tower bubble. Recent case study would be Michigan State University's handling of the Larry Nassar pedophile scandal.

Look at the Georgia University System. One would have thought a school like Georgia Tech full of scientists and engineers would know better.

The engineers and scientists have no power.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I didn’t know any better, I’d say we don’t know what the f*ck we’re doing.

Well, yeah. Universities, especially large public universities, are controlled by idiot backwater crony paper pushers who spend decades in an Ivory Tower bubble. Recent case study would be Michigan State University's handling of the Larry Nassar pedophile scandal.

Look at the Georgia University System. One would have thought a school like Georgia Tech full of scientists and engineers would know better.

Anonymous wrote:*scratches JMU off the list for where to apply this year*

Exactly. I hope all parents of high school students are paying attention to this, and all other schools.

So, wait... JMU concentrated a bunch of super carriers in one place and are SENDING THEM HOME TO INFECT THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES?

Jesus Gawd and WTF.

*scratches JMU off the list for where to apply this year*

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Anonymous wrote:Are these cases counted in the VA daily numbers of positive cases?

Yes, because the test was administered in VA and the testing company has to report it to public health authorities in their (testing company's) local jurisdiction.

Actually they get reported in the jurisdiction the patient lists as home. If the JMU student lists the parents home as the home address, it will be inappropriately be assigned to the home jurisdiction. At this time, JMU students were traveling 30 miles or more to get tested, Charlottesville, Staunton, etc. Those will probably be attributed to JMU.