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The unclarity is unsettling. I imagine many will want to fly back to their parents home but may be barred from doing so. Was evicting a large populace a good
by r00fus 7y ago
The unclarity is unsettling. I imagine many will want to fly back to their parents home but may be barred from doing so.
Was evicting a large populace a good idea? Aren't there other options?
- ajross 7y ago> The unclarity is unsettling. The situation is unsettling. Realistically MIT made the right broad decision here, I think we can all agree on that. Classrooms (most of them) are an inherently remotable environment. Lecture halls and giant shared dormitories and shared meal facilities are just not a safe environment in a pandemic. They made the right call. Demanding that they do it with perfect bureaucratic finesse is a bit much. Over the coming months, all of us are going to be asked to undergo some hardship, there is no getting away from that. And realistically that hardship not going to be distributed fairly. We all need to do the best we can and help where it's possible.
- ngold 7y agoLooks like they are ripping off the bandaid, anything else would take more time. Evidently, MIT seems to think they don't have any left.
- ajross 7y agoIn Boston, I don't know. But Seattle for sure is crossing the threshold where Milan was 10-15 days ago, and there's no reason to expect things will evolve differently. These, literally, are the last days of calm before things start to blow up in the US too.