2/ Notre Dame imposes mandatory ‘exit testing’ for coronavirus on all students.
When notified it is your turn to test, you must appear. If you don’t, ND will freeze your academic status — you won’t be able to register for spring term. You won’t have access to transcripts.
3/ And Notre Dame students aren’t allowed to leave campus for home for Thanksgiving until they test negative.
If they test positive, they must stay in South Bend until they are negative, to help prevent ND students from spreading the virus back to their homes.
Letter below.
4/ Again, students who leave will have their academic status frozen.
Not clear how Notre Dame will know if you leave before getting your test result — but the penalty is no joke.
ND has 8,800 undergrads, 4,000 grad students, and 67% of students come from outside the midwest.
5/ Yes, this from Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins, who appears to have caught covid himself at the White House event for Amy Barrett while not wearing a mask.
Still, his responsibility is to try to keep students & their communities safe.
2/ How big is this news as the pandemic is raging out of control across the US and Europe?
US stock market futures are indicated up 1,400 points for the Dow at the open (9:30 am), which is 5%, and would send the Dow to a new all-time record at the opening.
3/ The US public health expert Ashish Jha, now dean of the school of public health at Brown, says, 'If that headline really number really holds up, that is huge. That is much better than I was expecting and it will make a huge difference.'
The tradition on a day like today — the day it becomes clear who the president-elect is — would be for the winner to give a 'victory' speech and the loser to give a concession speech.
Those are filled with thanks (on both sides) for the work of staff & the votes of supporters.
2/ They are gracious, they aim for unification.
It is hard to imagine Donald Trump giving a speech in that style (last night's speech underscores that).
Is it possible Trump will simply not give a concession speech?
He's not a man who 'concedes' anything, based on observation.
3/ John McCain conceding in 2008:
'The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.
'A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Sen. Obama to congratulate him…on being elected the next president of the country we both love.'
Americans watched Donald Trump for 4 years in the White House & yesterday millions more of them voted for Trump than did before seeing him as president.
2/ Biden has 69 million votes.
It seems likely at this point that Biden will, in fact, be president.
But if there's any doubt about the sense in which the 2020 election was a referendum on Trump and the Trump presidency, there was no repudiation.
3/ …Trump's vote total yesterday in fact exceeds Hillary Clinton's vote total in 2016.
• Trump, 2016: 63.0 million votes
• Clinton, 2016: 65.9 milllion
• Trump, 2020: 66.5 million (and rising)
• Biden, 2020: 69.2 million (and rising)