Anonymous wrote:You "it's just the flu bro" people have to stop watching Tucker Carlson and pay attention to the scientists. Seriously, for f# sake. I know it's hard to decipher what's true out there on the internet, but try to acknowledge your own biases when assessing the media and information that's out there.

Don’t waste your time. The Fox News morons have no clue.

You "it's just the flu bro" people have to stop watching Tucker Carlson and pay attention to the scientists. Seriously, for f# sake. I know it's hard to decipher what's true out there on the internet, but try to acknowledge your own biases when assessing the media and information that's out there.

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Anonymous wrote:This is horrible from the University of Iowa.

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2020/08/21/university-iowa-student-tests-positive-coronavirus/5621379002/

The college was unprepared but the student sounds clueless and whiny.

I’m not seeing clueless or whiny here. She followed all the rules, got herself packed and to her new spot, didn’t ask mom to intervene, and decided when enough was enough. For 18 years old newly away from home that’s not bad.

She took a bus?!?

When your life is at stake, you gotta do what ya gotta do. Good for her.

I hope you are joking. Ants are not life and death. Good God. She should be fined for riding that bus.

The sad part of this story is that this sick girl felt she had no alternatives. She pretty much didn't, since she was barely being fed and kept in an unsanitary room. I am not sure what her other options were.

She would have been fin if they hadn't made her leave her room.

When people have a fever of 101, where they should be is home, in their bed, and with someone to drop off some gingerale and chicken soup. Most college kids would be fine recuperating in their own bedrooms on campus. It's the fact that she had a roommate that meant they needed to move her. Asking an 18 year old living away from home for probably the first time with a high fever to carry all her belongings for 2 weeks herself to an empty dirty dorm, when everyone is refusing to come near her or help her becuase she has a terrible infectious disease, is really mean.

I wish all the "it's just the flu bro" people posting here would volunteer to help these kids on campus -- since residential life is too scared to go in and help her pack up her things and transport them, can't some people who just don't think COVID is a big deal volunteer to help on campus? You could help provide basic nursing care to the students living away from home, bring them meals and such which res life isn't willing to do? That would help kids stay on campus.

Even ones that are 100% virtual are having issue with kids coming back to off campus rentals.

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Anonymous wrote:The schools should just stay open. They should have spent time expanding their on campus health centers for respond 24/7 and added some isolation rooms monitored by health staff for very sick patients to stay in until they could be transferred to a hospital. It appears by all accounts that college age students become ill with less severity and yes the illness seems in line with flu or pneumonia or mono - for this age group. Anyone of those illnesses just like Covid can be more severe and turn deadly but it’s the exception and not the rule.

For the 11 billionth time it isn’t about the students. It is about all the staff who work at those colleges - who the college is obligated to provide with a reasonably safe workplace. It is also about the health care workers. The US hospital system isn’t built for surges in severe respiratory cases. It would be economically stupid to maintain that — so now we have to try and manage the caseload.

As for campuses most people with COVId take care of themselves. At home. Schools don’t run infirmaries and don’t need to start running them for people with highly infectious respiratory diseases. Students need to isolate, use a pulse oximeter and have food dropped off. The student health center should do a telehealth visit dailyit escalates they head to the hospital.

If you or your student can’t handle that, take a leave.

It’s also about PR. They don’t want to be the school on the news with an outbreak and when they are, they know everyone is watching to see what they do.

We need to stop treating cov19 like airborne Ebola, everyone will get it and few of any will get sick or die especially when the population is young healthy adults

Hopefully they charge half tuition

Anonymous wrote:The schools should just stay open. They should have spent time expanding their on campus health centers for respond 24/7 and added some isolation rooms monitored by health staff for very sick patients to stay in until they could be transferred to a hospital. It appears by all accounts that college age students become ill with less severity and yes the illness seems in line with flu or pneumonia or mono - for this age group. Anyone of those illnesses just like Covid can be more severe and turn deadly but it’s the exception and not the rule.

For the 11 billionth time it isn’t about the students. It is about all the staff who work at those colleges - who the college is obligated to provide with a reasonably safe workplace. It is also about the health care workers. The US hospital system isn’t built for surges in severe respiratory cases. It would be economically stupid to maintain that — so now we have to try and manage the caseload.

As for campuses most people with COVId take care of themselves. At home. Schools don’t run infirmaries and don’t need to start running them for people with highly infectious respiratory diseases. Students need to isolate, use a pulse oximeter and have food dropped off. The student health center should do a telehealth visit dailyit escalates they head to the hospital.

If you or your student can’t handle that, take a leave.

The schools should just stay open. They should have spent time expanding their on campus health centers for respond 24/7 and added some isolation rooms monitored by health staff for very sick patients to stay in until they could be transferred to a hospital. It appears by all accounts that college age students become ill with less severity and yes the illness seems in line with flu or pneumonia or mono - for this age group. Anyone of those illnesses just like Covid can be more severe and turn deadly but it’s the exception and not the rule.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/24/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

Towson went virtual.

Next will be Alabama, Auburn, UofSC, Clemson, and everything in Georgia.

The NFL is now closing some training camps due to cases

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Anonymous wrote:This is horrible from the University of Iowa.

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2020/08/21/university-iowa-student-tests-positive-coronavirus/5621379002/

This qualifies as news outside of a student newspaper? The basic issue is that the University hadn't cleaned the quarantine room and didn't help her move her crap. Everyone should have known that if you test positive, you will spend two weeks in quarantine. Life can be unfair. Deal with it.

I truly hope that when something bad happens to you that someone doesn't give you any sympathy they just say "deal with it"

Good god, do you have zero sympathy?

I had sympathy til she got on the bus. This is an honors student.

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Anonymous wrote:This is horrible from the University of Iowa.

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2020/08/21/university-iowa-student-tests-positive-coronavirus/5621379002/

This qualifies as news outside of a student newspaper? The basic issue is that the University hadn't cleaned the quarantine room and didn't help her move her crap. Everyone should have known that if you test positive, you will spend two weeks in quarantine. Life can be unfair. Deal with it.

I truly hope that when something bad happens to you that someone doesn't give you any sympathy they just say "deal with it"

Good god, do you have zero sympathy?

It may surprise you, but I have been in bad situations with no sympathy from others. I dealt with it. These are often good learning experiences. Eventually your snowflake will have to grow up. A dirty room and lack of delivered food is simply not life threatening if she has sufficient money to order delivery.

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Anonymous wrote:This is horrible from the University of Iowa.

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2020/08/21/university-iowa-student-tests-positive-coronavirus/5621379002/

This qualifies as news outside of a student newspaper? The basic issue is that the University hadn't cleaned the quarantine room and didn't help her move her crap. Everyone should have known that if you test positive, you will spend two weeks in quarantine. Life can be unfair. Deal with it.

I truly hope that when something bad happens to you that someone doesn't give you any sympathy they just say "deal with it"

Good god, do you have zero sympathy?