Well, Here We are
A good friend of mine dropped his freshman son off at an SEC school last week.
He texted me about the situation this morning:
Some online, some hybrid. Guessing it will
be a shitshow by Halloween.
I don't see how we're even going to make it to Halloween.
In Ann Arbor, I was stunned by how many people were wearing masks. Compliance was incredibly high, the highest I've seen anywhere. It's an intelligent city, with fewer Joe Freedoms than most.
Still, though.
Even if 90% of students stayed away from parties, that still leaves 4,500 kids out of 45,000 who aren't following the guidelines. And that's enough to cause a huge outbreak on campus.
Eli 19.0 lives off campus now, so even if they shut the university down for in-person instruction, he'll probably stay in Ann Arbor, since he has to pay rent anyway. But man, what a lousy experience that would be.
Actually, that's not quite true. If he could go to the rock gym every day, I think everything else would be easier to put up with. It's just that the rock gym would probably close, too.
2020. Please end soon.
Other examples around the country are not encouraging. The University of North Carolina is fairly equivalent to U of M, and they didn't last long: Virus outbreaks shut down University of North Carolina a week into fall semester.
The really sad thing is that massive testing with prompt results could largely control this until we have a vaccine. In the U.S., though, there are plenty of places where people are waiting a week for results, which makes testing utterly useless.
Which is why we, um, have a federal government that should be managing a coordinated response instead of being utterly inept.
An early reminder, but VOTE.
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