People think the masks are filtering out O2? Jesus ****ing christ.

Opinions on reopening residential colleges in Aug? Seems like absolute lunacy to me. Short of nursing homes and cruise ships, it's tough to think of a better environment for virus spread.

Probably worse. Beer pong, random ****ing, shared bongs/joints/vape.
If true, schools seriously need to make testing readily available for kids before they go back home for the weekend to visit the family

I also heard the plan a lot are going with is start early, and then when they go home for Thanksgiving break, they stay home through Christmas and pick back up some time after the new year.

My oldest is a graduating HS Senior/Incoming College Freshman, and I really can't think of a more ****ed-over group. Aside from the dead people ofc. They've lost, and will continue to lose, a very large amount of life-events that they will never be able to get back.

Yes the idea behind this is to "beat the 2nd wave", as if a)the first wave is over, and b)the second wave will conveniently arrive on schedule in December, just after the semester ends, and depart just in time for the spring semester in January.

It's nothing more than an attempt by colleges, who need the dorm revenue, to say they are doing something. It's ridiculous. Large scale outbreaks are all but guaranteed and most colleges are woefully unprepared to handle them.

Same thing for me today as my bf exchanged DMV paperwork (outside) with someone who tested positive 4 days later. It's been 9 days since contact and no symptoms for anyone. He's getting tested tomorrow but I'm waiting and staying away from people until he gets his results back. Meanwhile he's continuing to make dinner with his diabetic mother.

Even though I have a feeling we are negative this time, it sucks knowing it'll just happen again sometime down the road.

My wife, as am I, are getting a little bit worn down both working full time and taking care of a 6 year old and a 2 year old all day. She got a call from the 2 year olds daycare today seeing if/when we were planning to go back (they've been open the whole time).

After the call my wife said maybe she would look into getting a teenager to come over for a couple hours a few days a week. I said teenagers were like the worst demographic (maybe behind college kids) due to lack of fear and peer pressure to not practice social distancing. I thought it was a horrible idea IMO.

People are being annoyingly stupid. There are still 15-20% wearing masks in semi-crowded areas but very little social distancing. They dont seem to understand that numbers rising minus less precautions means this could be even worse.

All these Dipshits want is for life to get back to normal yet they cant grasp the fact they have to make short term sacrifices to make that happen. How are these people successful in life?

^^^We are literally perpetuating our own misery, and now there is no fix because another lockdown is out of the question.

Buckle up, buttercups.

Delayed gratification is for commies!

America would stink at the Stanford marshmallow experiment. We’d only ever have one marshmallow. Oink oink

I teach at a just such a college and look forward to resuming my classes in the fall. It sounds like all the big classes will be taught online, and the smaller ones will be taught in person in much larger classrooms (max 25% capacity).

The college needs to provide options for completely socially distanced teaching for older faculty, and provisions for paid time off for older employees who work in contact with students. But beyond that, I don’t see any problems.

College students may be likely to get infected. But college students are also extremely unlikely to die from the virus, and substantially less likely to suffer other serious health consequences. And being on a residential college, they are much less likely to come in regular close contact with vulnernable populations than if they were at home, and they probably also have easier access to health resources.

We'd eat the marshmallow before we were finished being told the rules of the experiment.

This is precisely why I think the 2nd wave is going to be really awful. Not because of the temperature and not because of people being indoors more, but because America has shown its hand that staying at home again ain't ****in happening.

Oh well, hopefully it'll be shitty enough to get the main existential threat out of the White House.

I could see 400k by end of year, but that is probably better suited for the other thread. I really don't think people are ready to wrap their stupid heads around that number, but it is way more likely than 250k.

Some unsubstantiated(by me) stat I saw yesterday was it took 3 months for the first million infected, and the last 8 days for the second million.

you guys are wrong when you say america will be unwilling to shut down. if enough people are dropping dead then americans will stay home.

If larger classes can be taught online, why wouldn't smaller ones? The overarching principle should be to conduct all interactions online where possible. I think you are being naive if you think placing desks in a classroom 6 feet apart means the virus cannot spread. Perhaps your college has larger rooms and spacing will be more, but rest assured most do not have enough space and will be squeezing them in with desks exactly 6' apart.



There are a million other potential problems, which is why some colleges (a minority unfortunately) made the wise decision to stay online for the fall. Dining halls, dorms, shared bathrooms, social gatherings, hook-ups. It's a breeding ground for virus spread.



Lol at dormitories being safer than students staying at home. Students will be traveling to campuses from all over the country (and world). Some of them from COVID hot spots. They will not be locked in their dorm rooms. Many go home on weekends. They go out to bars. They go to parties. They interact with campus faculty and staff. And even if they do none of that, they go home at Thanksgiving, so disease acquired on campus can and will be spread to more vulnerable populations.

Look at the numbers in the southern states. Rapid rise in cases among younger people. These people then spread to others including the more vulnerable. That's why hospitalizations are now rising also.

Colleges are opening on a wish and a prayer and hoping for the best. Their "plans" are a joke. They consist of spacing desks 6' apart and ending the semester 2 weeks early. Many still planning to have athletics. I'm sure it will all work out fine.

I like all this "young people a-ok old people relegated to seclusion" that's not how a fxking functioning society works!

Korea, Taiwan and the like doing much better bc instead of saying *** the old I'm good, they gaf and that helps everyone. That is all

We are a commuter campus and almost all of our courses will be online in fall. All of my course load will be. In fact, they are already asking if I can teach online fully in Spring.

Air-conditioning maybe a factor too?

Juk

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-expert-warns

We'd threaten to report the researcher for child abuse if he didn't give us the whole bag immediately.

Lol

I have to assume everyone on the floor is wearing masks, gloves and maybe even face shields/goggles. So an infected person coughs/sneezes, droplets go through the mask, into the air, through the A/C, back out, lands on another employee with the same PPE and infects them when they rub their eyes or something?
I'm missing the simple answer here. Is it really being spread on shift or at lunch hour, sharing transportation, shared accommodations?

Disagree.

As vicious as the virus is, it's not piles of bodies in the streets lethal. Far too many people are going to be completely or almost completely untouched -- no hospitalization, no big deal -- and are going to violate any stay home order.

It might be different if there were an expectation that a lockdown would only last so long, but there isn't. The indefiniteness of future restrictions will trigger violations.

With the entire world as a petri dish it's hard to see the virus being well controlled anytime soon regardless.