It took just eight days for Notre Dame to shut down the campus. Eight days and
146 students infected with Covid-19.
“The virus is a formidable foe,” Notre Dame University President Father John Jenkins said in a news release. “For the past week, it has been winning. Let us as the Fighting Irish join together to contain it.”
Since Aug. 3, 927 people have been tested for the virus and 147 have returned positive results, the school said.
Most of those students were seniors living off-campus who contracted the disease at gatherings where social distancing rules were not followed and masks weren’t worn, the school said, citing a contact tracing analysis.
The University of Michigan chose to play it safe.
In Michigan, the university hadn’t yet begun their fall semester as they abruptly told students to stay away from campus. In a Tuesday letter to students, University President Samuel Stanley Jr. attributed the move to the “current status of the virus in our country — particularly what we are seeing at other institutions as they re-populate their campus communities.”
On Monday, UNC-Chapel Hill became the first university in the United States to abandon in-person classes after reopening for the fall semester on Aug. 10. Five school employees and 130 students tested positive, the school said.
"Many students, graduate workers, staff, some faculty members and even the local county health department warned that this was going to happen," said Lamar Richards, a student chairperson on the Commission on Campus Equality and Student Equity at UNC.
Oh those crazy Yankees and their high-risk hedonist ways and their Gawd-given constitutional freedoms. What did they expect?
They're not responsible people, not like us. We won't have problems like theirs when re-opening our schools.
.. Well, it fell apart darn quick.. I feel bad for North American students.. especially the frosh. Attending University was a huge thrill for me (Guelph).. for my son (Queens) though I knew U of G well during high school. It provided Education, Recreation, part and full time work (and girls !) and set me on a path. My big sis was U of T. The Boss Western, Waterloo and U of T. No matter where I lived & worked in Canada, I was welcomed on campus.. and always centred my pattern around that. I was a varsity basketball gym rat & varsity football player, plus Track & Field.. So UBC, U Vic, Simon Fraser.. U of A and U of Calgary, U of Ottawa, Carleton, U of Sask, and the various Maritime U's were my oyster.. The ambience was so yummy everywhere, Great times in the US of A as well. University of Wisconsin, University of Texas, UCLA, Stanford, I prob have missed many.. Loyola, Univ of Montreal, Laval
ReplyDeleteBy the bye.. I was looking at a Facebook page from that great education bastion, Alberta's UCP.. who are headed for the same mistake as Notre Dame etc etc.. and have been vomiting up some complete conjecture re Covid-19's transmission capability.. Try this one on Mound.. (paraphrasing) 'It is simply almost impossible for a student to become infected simply by being in the same room with an infected person'
Whoa.. ! What ? Is this the 'new known science' of genius Jason Kenney & Matt Wolf ? There are two graphics.. thought I had retweeted on Twitter.. but both are astonishing.. I guess th good Father at Notre Dame got the same memo.. but God shuffled his feet.. then hammered the Golden Dome for impertinence
ReplyDeleteAt some point, Sal, we might have to make cultivating stupidity an indictable offence. It is causing immense damage to society, leaving us confused and deeply divided. The public should have a reasonable expectation that those in leadership won't manipulate them with lies and distortion. When they do these things the damage can be irreparable and it goes straight at the notion of "consent of the governed." A vote given on the strength of a fraudulent pretence is a vote stolen.