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It would be nice if they had thought about it enough to offer some sort of concrete solution. I can only imagine how stressful and infuriating the situation MIT
by rurp 7y ago
It would be nice if they had thought about it enough to offer some sort of concrete solution. I can only imagine how stressful and infuriating the situation MIT is imposing on its students must be for many of them.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI think there's a limit to how well thought out you can expect the response to a global pandemic that's emerged in just a couple of months to be. Sorry it isn't perfect?
- HarryHirsch 7y agoTaiwan seems to be handling it extremely well, but over there they had first-hand experience with SARS, and they had plans in place for when it was going to be back, because consensus was that it was going to be back.
- perennate 7y agoIndeed, they were implementing preventive measures as early as December 31 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_Taiwan#Preventive_measures_before_the_first_confirmed_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_T...
- wegs 7y agoTo be fair, MIT tends to handle this sort of thing pretty well, and informally. I expect it doesn't have clear policies, but that it will try to do right by people on a case-by-case basis based on people's individual circumstances. I wouldn't take this quite so cynically. That's not to say the Institute isn't corrupt, evil, and horrible in other ways, but this is not one of the ways in which it's evil. The badness mostly starts with higher-ups and schemes in the many millions of dollars.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago>The badness mostly starts with higher-ups and schemes in the many millions of dollars. That kind of badness tends to corrupt entire organizations if left unchecked.