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What Happened at Georgetown Law with Covid?

• barry-cotter 4y ago
  > For questioning Covid restrictions, Georgetown Law suspended me from campus, forced me to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, required me to waive my right to medical confidentiality, and threatened to report me to state bar associations. … > I arrived at the meeting with curiosity. I had no interest in banging my fists and causing a commotion; I just wanted to know the reasoning – the “rational basis” that law schools so often discuss – behind our school’s policies. There were four simple questions: > What was the goal of the school’s Covid policy? (Zero Covid? Flatten the curve?) What was the limiting principle to that goal? (What were the tradeoffs?) What metrics would the community need to reach for the school to remove its mask mandate? How can you explain the contradictions in your policies? For example, how could the virus be so dangerous that we could not take a sip of water but safe enough that we were required to be present? Why are faculty exempt from masking requirements?