Alcohol is a disinfectant. They will all be just fine.
That is what sanitizer is made out of. So buy a bottle of vodka, drink half and pure the other half on your exposed skin and you be good.
Social Distancing at ISU
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That is what sanitizer is made out of. So buy a bottle of vodka, drink half and pure the other half on your exposed skin and you be good.
It’s evidence submission #6,348,837,012 since the pandemic started as to how stupid, self centered, and careless humans can be. There is no denying why we have it so much worse in the US than any other civilized country. While the vast majority of these students will be fine, there are countless others they will expose over the next few weeks that weren’t self centered and out partying (students, teachers, doctors, parents, grandparents, friends, etc).
People mocked the estimates in March that showed 60,000 dead by fall and we’ve done our best to get to 160,000 already. The new models drop tonight, but last weeks projects 300,000 dead by December 1st. No reason to believe we won’t find a great way to blow past that estimate as well.
People mocked the estimates in March that showed 60,000 dead by fall and we’ve done our best to get to 160,000 already. The new models drop tonight, but last weeks projects 300,000 dead by December 1st. No reason to believe we won’t find a great way to blow past that estimate as well.
kcbob79clone
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I'd like to think not but upon further reflection 20 year old me would be at parties.
Exactly. I will go further and say having kids living on campus or in town for a bunch of online classes is even worse. Son said he has a few that he could hammer the week out on Monday and be done in one day. Get basically all online and be done by Wednesday with class........what will happen? Even more parties, I know it, you know it, it’s college kids. My son is mostly in person but most people on here are saying their kids are totally online. Setting up for a bigger party environment by posting the whole week on line.
People mocked the models that had 1 to 2 million dead and a health care system unable to handle.
People bring that up but that was a single outlier model and based on no social distancing, lockdowns, masks or anything else. Every reputable model has consistently been under what we’ve actually hit. Those that like to bring up that model have never actually read it, what it was communicating, or looked at the other 99% that have been too conservative.
Those models were the “do nothing” projections over like two years if we did not make any changes at all. Surely everyone here is sharp enough to understand that we made major changes as a society to help reduce the spread of this.
Right? Because your post left me wondering.
Social-distance and mask-shamers are the worst form of Karen right now.
Not disputing model changes and societal behavior changes over time to help, but that model early caused many to panic with images of Italy’s hospitals overrun to boot.
Only alcoholics consider not drinking for a week a challenge. I know this because I’m an alcoholic.
Honestly all the CDC data says this age group has the LEAST risk. Sure they'll spread it amongst themselves and the health pros say most of it will be asymptomatic, but their risk of death and serious complications is basically nil. If I was staff I'd make damn sure I was taking MY precautions but to think 18-22 year old kids will think of anyone other than themselves is naive.
I doubt those players have many in person classes at all. And if they do, it’s mostly in oversized rooms where everyone can socially distance.
Will a photo from University of Iowa suffice? Pretty much same thing.
If we set expectations to zero, we will only ever get zero. If we set expectations higher and actually start preparing 18-22 year olds for the real world - and a pandemic sounds like a great time to start - maybe more would actually be able to make it successfully on their own.
If my 9 year old can ride through Ames with his grandparents like yesterday and come home complaining about seeing “so many stupid people without masks, like 95% of them”, I’m thinking we could raise the bar a bit for those twice his age.
If you had a son or daughter that you noticed in one of those pictures- w/o a mask - what would you do?
I would call them and ask "WFT is wrong with you?"
Just shrug my shoulders and think we tried our super hardest not to spread the virus.