This is what a lot of colleges seem to be doing: in-person everything, but vaccinations either required or strongly recommended. Lots of places are also requiri

This is what a lot of colleges seem to be doing: in-person everything, but vaccinations either required or strongly recommended. Lots of places are also requiring or strongly recommending masks. Personally this is what I'm hoping for. I'm all for staying safe, but the data shows that if you're vaccinated, even the Delta variant has a very slim chance of causing serious illness. Remote learning doesn't work well for me, and having events being cancelled / heavily regulated / remote is seriously impacting my social life. I don't want to seriously impact my work and social life just for the very slim chance that I'm going to get infected or infect others. Also, there is nothing stronger than the vaccine on the horizon and we have to get back to some semblance of normal eventually. We do need to keep in mind children and immunocompromised people. But I'm not interacting with children. I do think colleges should offer limited online exemptions for immunocompromised or otherwise vulnerable people, but then I'm not interacting with immunocompromisde people either. Ultimately though, we have to see how this actually plays out for colleges. Because if Delta really is as dangerous as people are saying, or if there is a new variant, there's just no way we're going to avoid another lockdown. Look at what's happening in the South, where most people are unvaccinated - people are trying to pretend Covid doesn't exist, but the hospital system is collapsing and people who would have been alive are dying because there are literally no hospital beds. All I an do is hope that it's not.