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Anonymous wrote:Where’s the sanctimonious UVA parent who claimed UVA students have more “character” than students at other schools and so wouldn’t be irresponsibly partying and spreading COVID? Please stand up and admit how wrong you were. We’ll wait.

There hasn't been one. That was Notre Dame mom trying to defend ND's decision to start classes early (football????) and leave by Thanksgiving. That didn't work so well. https://www.chronicle.com/article/more-colleges-are-responding-to-covid-19-surges-with-2-week-quarantines-do-they-work. Many have had to send everyone home, which protects the school but serves to spread the virus.

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Anonymous wrote:79% live off campus or commute. Not sure if you understand what the word means. Has nothing to do with a Carnegie classification. Lord you’re ill-educated.

You could learn to google before you post.

1) Jan 2011, Carnegie reclassified GMU to a residential university. http://collegeexplorations.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-virginia-universities-drop.html

2) All first years must live in a residence hall unless they get a waiver. Here are the requirements for obtaining a waiver. https://offcampus.gmu.edu/do-i-qualify-to-live-off-campus/

3) the reason for the 79% is due to the fact that older students, like mine, were kicked out of the dorms to make way for the freshman. There is simply insufficient dorm space at GMU. They are building as fast as they can but can't keep up with demand. GMU has been on a building streak for the last 15 years. https://facilities.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/universitymasterplan.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Herd immunity. They will all be immune and won’t get very sick. That’s how this has always worked.

Nobody told you?
There is no herd immunity with covid. Antibodies last 3-4 months and then reinfection is possible. This cycle will continue until idiots stop spreading it and the chain of infection can be broken enough to properly contact trace and eradicate it.

Anonymous wrote:Herd immunity. They will all be immune and won’t get very sick. That’s how this has always worked.

Anonymous wrote:Herd immunity is great. Get it over with. In my day chicken pox you put the kids together let them all get it.

Anonymous wrote:79% live off campus or commute. Not sure if you understand what the word means. Has nothing to do with a Carnegie classification. Lord you’re ill-educated.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now.

Someone tracks the daily status from the college dashboards and makes estimates of the percentage that are positive from the testing data. For UVA, it is increasing, but certainly not to the level of Radford, JMU, and VT yet. UVA is estimated at 4.2% of population positive vs. 33% at Radford, 28% at JMU, and 11.2% at VT. The other Virginia schools seem to be doing better at this point.

https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/09/daily-status-sept_19.html

GMU has done very well.

It’s mainly a commuter school so not apples to apples.

Go back to 1990, when this was true. Thanks.

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Honestly, some people are so ill-educated on this forum. Carneigie reclassified GMU to a full residential college 12 years ago. Pre-Covid all freshman are required to live in dorms. GMU is now the largest research university in the Commonwealth of VIrginia. From wiki: "George Mason University, an institution dedicated to research of consequence, hosts $149 million in sponsored research projects annually, as of 2019.[113] In 2016, Mason was classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education among the U.S. universities that receive the most research funding and award research/scholarship doctorates.[114] Mason moved into this classification based on a review of its 2013–2014 data that was performed by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University.[115]

The research is focused on health, sustainability and security. In health, researchers focus is on wellness, disease prevention, advanced diagnostics and biomedical analytics. Sustainability research examines climate change, natural disaster forecasting, and risk assessment. Mason's security experts study domestic and international security as well as cyber security.[116]"

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Anonymous wrote:Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now.

Someone tracks the daily status from the college dashboards and makes estimates of the percentage that are positive from the testing data. For UVA, it is increasing, but certainly not to the level of Radford, JMU, and VT yet. UVA is estimated at 4.2% of population positive vs. 33% at Radford, 28% at JMU, and 11.2% at VT. The other Virginia schools seem to be doing better at this point.

https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/09/daily-status-sept_19.html

GMU has done very well.

It’s mainly a commuter school so not apples to apples.

Go back to 1990, when this was true. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now.

Someone tracks the daily status from the college dashboards and makes estimates of the percentage that are positive from the testing data. For UVA, it is increasing, but certainly not to the level of Radford, JMU, and VT yet. UVA is estimated at 4.2% of population positive vs. 33% at Radford, 28% at JMU, and 11.2% at VT. The other Virginia schools seem to be doing better at this point.

https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/09/daily-status-sept_19.html

GMU has done very well.

It’s mainly a commuter school so not apples to apples.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol
A week and a half ago everyone on here was saying the UVA kids were smart and wouldn’t spread covid. Look who’s the same as VT and JMU now.

Someone tracks the daily status from the college dashboards and makes estimates of the percentage that are positive from the testing data. For UVA, it is increasing, but certainly not to the level of Radford, JMU, and VT yet. UVA is estimated at 4.2% of population positive vs. 33% at Radford, 28% at JMU, and 11.2% at VT. The other Virginia schools seem to be doing better at this point.

https://www.vacovidstatus.com/2020/09/daily-status-sept_19.html

GMU has done very well.

It’s mainly a commuter school so not apples to apples.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a parent of a UVA student who is on campus. We have been told there are upwards of 1,000-1,500 dorm and hotel rooms reserved for quarantine and isolation cases. Those are separated. Also, there is nowhere near 17,000 students in Charlottesville this semester. The percentage on campus has dropped from about 82% expected prior to return to Grounds, to about the mid 60s the week school started, and now some percentage below that as some kids decide to go home because pretty much is everything is closed down or to quarantine after contracting Covid. UVA administration has done a good job, though wastewater testing was delayed for some reason until after a number of confirmed cases were reported in a first-year dorm. Some students Have tried to get tested at student health and have been rejected for not meeting criteria, so they went elsewhere. That was a mistake on UVA’s part and suggested to parents that they may be worried about conserving nasal swab tests. We are still waiting for wide-scale saliva tests to begin, sometime in late September. They started random asymptomatic nasal swab tests, by sending emails to a random students as early as the second week. That did not appear to be the case with wastewater tests, which began later. My student just had their dorm tested by wastewater and then nasal swabs, after infection was found in the former. The jury is still out on whether students should have returned to campus. It was a risky decision that involved careful planning. But history has shown us how uNpredictable pandemics can be. We are testing each week as a bonus. But it’s tough for those kids to not be isolated given so few in-person classes (my students single in-person class was canceled by the professor), threats of suspension for gathering in large groups, and RAs who are overwhelmed and concerned about contracting Covid. There is no right answer, as president Ryan said, to taking either the UVA or the Johns Hopkins approach. These kids are getting pulled late at night after test results come in and Taken by cab to isolation rooms. Not easy for first year students, many of whom don’t have roommates. Many NOVA kids chose to stay home.

They put them in a cab?!