Colleges who have launched in person may want to do just that.
-Learning
-Growing into adulthood
-Socialization
-Getting a degree
-Moving on to the next step in life
-Research
-The growth of our next generation
I'm going to go with that list though I'm sure there is more.
-For some, it may play a special role: an escape from a bad home life, a new start after a bad high school experience, housing for those housing insecure
-Attract some of the brightest minds in the world to our country
But many of the more concrete objectives can be advanced on line: learning, moving towards a degree
Socialization certainly will. But socialization isn't supposed to be happening on campus according to the "compacts" (i.e., rules) of most of the campuses.
But what happens if they're postponed 6 months, or even a full year?
These people-- mostly young-- will save many many lives & without risking their own.
Dr. Atlas has argued we don't need the ACA & can replace it with "incentives."
Norman was adding 6 cases in June and began adding 300 cases as school began. Notre Dame has added 222 cases since August 3.
Recall in Florida when all those "only young people" were getting COVID. And then, well, only some hospitalizations. Now 10,000 people are dead.
At those schools, those outbreaks will be worse. They will be out of control.
The reason for science is just in case prayer doesn't work.
On top of that the schools harangue them for blowing it. Not abiding by the cruel rules of sit in your room, don't interact, dine, or go to class.
Schools motivated by money. Parents who don't want to be the bad guy. Setting them up to fail. Cruelly playing with their lives
smarturl.it/inthebubble
I've had the pleasure of listening to the self-righteous crowing of these universities, their faux concern for public health, their "disappointment" with students. But it was them.
Show us you can learn a lesson.
Less listening to phony experts. More focus on data.
Now I'm going to hang out with my homebound son!