Monday, June 15, 2020

Expecting Students to Play It Safe if Colleges Reopen Is a Fantasy [New York Times]

The flava:
A number of American colleges and universities have decided to bring students back to campus this fall, believing they can diminish the risk of coronavirus transmission if everyone wears masks, uses hand sanitizer and social distances. Some schools also plan to reconfigure dorms to create family-sized clusters of uninfected students, who could socialize in relative safety, if only with their suite mates.

These plans are so unrealistically optimistic that they border on delusional and could lead to outbreaks of Covid-19 among students, faculty and staff.

The article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/opinion/coronavirus-college-safe.html

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