Posted on 02/04/2021 6:51:31 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
OPINION: UW-Madison has me spitting in a cup twice a week, and it feels excessive and even potentially reckless
If you approached me last year at this time and told me my school was going to require each of its 45,000 students to spit in a cup twice a week, I simply would not have believed you.
Spitting in a cup is, however, exactly what UW-Madison is requiring of each of its 45,000 students this spring semester.
A new campuswide COVID testing measure borrowed from the University of Illinois is requiring every single student, including those living off campus, to submit a saliva COVID test twice a week in order to keep campus safe from the virus.
At this time, UW has not announced a return to in-person classes, which has many, including myself, confused as to why we are bothering to spit for our building access at all. I have yet to enter a campus building for academic purposes this semester — only to provide my spit.
The school claims the saliva test is quicker than the nasal swab, which was provided last semester, but this comes at the expense of accuracy as any sort of defect in the saliva sample can warrant a failed test. Anything from stray food particles to cloudy saliva can be grounds for a failed test.
Many of my friends have received late test results days after providing samples, or not even received results entirely. If we were really attending classes, this discrepancy in test results could cost us multiple days of instruction all due to proceedings out of our control....
Proper samples must be within 1 and 1.5 milliliters as too much or too little spit can result in a failed test....
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
At least it’s better than their gender studies courses. Or revisionist history.. or..
Does a failed test mean you have to take it over again or do they just opt for saying it turned out positive? After all that would be in the best interest of “keeping you safe”. Spit
Dang.
I wish we could just ‘spit’. They have us swabbing our noses for 15 seconds - each nostril...
He won the dead, and the unborn - 17 vote as well.
I work in a place where all of the essential employees - there are usually at least 12 of them - have to be tested every two weeks.
Nobody has turned up ‘positive’ during the past year.
Its not called Madistan for nothing.
Indiana University is requiring testing 1x a week, even if you aren’t on campus. I have to take a day off work to go do the weekly testing if I get randomly selected (I’ve been selected every week). There is no drinking beverages in class or going to the bathroom. They’re now purposely lowering grades of students who don’t follow these rules.
My Socialist sister WORKS for these Commies - she has for over 30 years now!
She posts on FB DAILY about her ongoing ‘struggle’ to keep everyone ‘safe’ by spitting in a cup 2x a week and she’s now wearing TWO masks. Whatever her Socialist Masters ask of her is just fine and dandy!
I swear we CANNOT be from the same bloodline! Aarrgghh!
Nice try.
By the time the educators cave, it will be “bend over”...
What is that you say?! Spit?! Oh, I'm sorry! I thought you said sperm.
Regards,
So they’re going through 90,000 tests a week just at this one institution? Is the person who created this policy getting a kickback from the company that does the testing?
Just wait until they discover that a more accurate test can be done on excrement.
ML/NJ
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