Also good to see it has a sunset provision. I understand the need to hold everyone across the community to the same standard. That perception is important to help maintain compliance among those who've already been complying (& sacrificing to do so).
But I think the... 1/
ordinance/ticketing will have a limited effect on those individuals, particularly university students, who've been flagrantly engaging in risky behavior.
Many of those students have no ties to our community. They hold misperceptions, or are ignorant of, the seriousness of... 2/
the virus & how it's transmitted. They desperately want to experience their preconceived notion of college life & newfound independence. Their brains aren't finished developing yet. There's a host of reasons contributing to why a city ordinance enforced via ticketing won't... 3/
create much of an incentive to avoid risky behavior. For some it will even be an incentive to engage in the risky behavior the ordinance is designed to limit. Flouting authority, particularly when perceived as unjust or unnecessary, enhanced somewhat in groups, is not... 4/
unusual among college students. Other strategies need to be looked at. I discussed some potential ones here: linkedin.com/pulse/creating….
We also need a greater frequency of rapid testing, along w/ much better contact tracing - on campus especially, but also in the community. 5/
That gives you some additional room to allow for a degree of risky behavior to occur - because we're not going to eliminate it.
Ultimately we should have been having these conversations months ago. And KU should have taken the lead on this, as most of it starts & ends... 6/
w/ them. I've been pretty disappointed in how KU's administration has handled things. 7/
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