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Reopening universities and colleges is also a major threat to the entire community. Here in WA over a hundred students tested positive this week after partying

by mnm1 6y ago

Reopening universities and colleges is also a major threat to the entire community. Here in WA over a hundred students tested positive this week after partying at their frat. In Alabama, students are intentionally trying to get infected. This will happen en masse if universities open their campuses and those infected will spread the infections into not only the immediate community but also the ones that many of them traveled hundreds of miles from to attend university. It would be pure madness to reopen or to pretend like university students will social distance and wear masks.

charliepark 6y ago
Here's a pretty good thread from a professor arguing that the Alabama story is very likely made up: https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1278703871053963269 https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1278703871053963269 But I totally agree that the entire premise of colleges trying to function as an on-campus institution is absolutely absurd until there's a vaccine.
- djsumdog 6y ago
  > until there's a vaccine Why do people think we're getting some magic vaccine? Gavi/Gates have pushed this "18 months" bullshit, where they're developing some magical vaccine for a family of viruses that's never had a vaccine before, and every previous attempt has been met with either bad immunopathic responses or immune enhancement syndrome[0]. Vaccines takes decades to develop safely, and the techniques being proposed now have never led to a vaccine that made it through clinical trials before. There is no vaccine coming in any reasonable amount of time. The 100+ companies are take a lot of WHO/government money, and who knows if they'll actually produce anything. Safe vaccines for new families of viruses take a decade. There is still no vaccine for retroviruses (herpes, HIV, etc.) It's straight up Gates pipe dream to think a safe vaccine for this can be made in a year. [0]: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-honor/#vacinations-should-not-be-made-in-a-year https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...

by mnm1 6y ago

charliepark 6y ago

Here's a pretty good thread from a professor arguing that the Alabama story is very likely made up: https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1278703871053963269 https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1278703871053963269 But I totally agree that the entire premise of colleges trying to function as an on-campus institution is absolutely absurd until there's a vaccine.

djsumdog 6y ago
> until there's a vaccine Why do people think we're getting some magic vaccine? Gavi/Gates have pushed this "18 months" bullshit, where they're developing some magical vaccine for a family of viruses that's never had a vaccine before, and every previous attempt has been met with either bad immunopathic responses or immune enhancement syndrome[0]. Vaccines takes decades to develop safely, and the techniques being proposed now have never led to a vaccine that made it through clinical trials before. There is no vaccine coming in any reasonable amount of time. The 100+ companies are take a lot of WHO/government money, and who knows if they'll actually produce anything. Safe vaccines for new families of viruses take a decade. There is still no vaccine for retroviruses (herpes, HIV, etc.) It's straight up Gates pipe dream to think a safe vaccine for this can be made in a year. [0]: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-honor/#vacinations-should-not-be-made-in-a-year https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...