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Beyond the legal issue.. it doesn't seem like a smart move to spread people around more if you're worried about your students being infected.
by legohead 7y ago
Beyond the legal issue.. it doesn't seem like a smart move to spread people around more if you're worried about your students being infected.
- dailyrorschach 7y agoLeaving aside the merits/legality, I think the actual concern is students broadly traveling over the about to occur spring break, and then turning entire campuses into active outbreak clusters when everyone we returns within the incubation/transmission period.
- tzs 7y agoOn-campus student housing tends to be high density. Bathrooms and showers and kitchens or kitchenettes are shared among many people. Meals are often in large communal dining rooms. Given the way this virus spreads and how long you can be spreading it before you realize you are sick, once it gets into an on-campus housing unit it has a very good chance of infecting most of the students. Sending the students home will send most of them to lower density housing, with bathrooms and showers and dining only shared with a handful of people (e.g., their parents and siblings). For a given student, this changes things from something like "if any one of these 200 other people get it, I'll probably get it" to something like "if any one of these 4 people get it, I'll probably get it". That's a vast improvement.