Posted on 04/08/2021 12:34:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
I am all for following rules to keep people safe, and I am not against wearing masks. However, I am also for common sense, and some of my school’s rules are redundant.
I’ve tested negative for COVID 17 times. Ditto my whole floor, residence hall, and every student on campus — we’re required to test twice per week, after all. It’s safe to say that if someone got COVID, it’s been caught and that person is quarantining.
However, Mt. Holyoke College’s Community Compact says that “masks or cloth face coverings are required when in the presence of others and when outside of your personal room — including outdoors.”
It doesn’t matter what the conditions are. I can be walking outside–without a single soul in sight–and I still have to wear a mask. I can be sitting alone in one of the massive common rooms my school offers, and yet, I still need to wear a mask.
I can peek my head outside of my dorm, and I would need to cover my mouth and nose. If I get caught exposing my entire bare face, I could have that infraction put on my record — or even worse — kicked off campus.
According to my school’s COVID dashboard, we’ve had a total of 33 positive COVID tests this semester for a test positivity rate of .2 percent. This stat covers the roughly 900 students, faculty and staff on-campus...
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So are people here. World is full of covidiots.
Yeah, really. She decided to go there, and someone is paying for it.
My 3rd son graduated from high school last May. We looked at the options and said, “Get a lousy job!” He’s been working full-time as a Walmart stocker since last July, socking away money in the bank and learning why working really hard in college, once they reopen, is a good idea.
Hundreds of thousands over the full program.
Mt. Holyoke is one of the Seven Sisters. Top shelf spread, at least by brand reputation.
The masking is actually getting worse. The COVID tyrants like how much power and control comes from the fear and the masking. This coincides with the shot and test pushers as the mask charade rules it all behind BS statistics and junk science.
Saw a masked jogger yesterday, no one within a hundred yards.
“we’ve had a total of 33 positive COVID tests this semester”
I would bet that probably none of these 33 positive tests required any medical treatment or hospitalization.
Note to the author: Young lady, this was NEVER about public health.
A clear face shield on glasses frames does the same thing, and protects the eyes where a mask doesn’t.
The problem is just because you test negative now and in the past is no guarantee that you won’t be infected later.
Trump himself was tested almost every week before he finally got infected.
Q: So when masked joggers start dying from asphyxiation, how are they going to blame that on Trump?
Which is why I don't understand why he and Melania got the vaccine before they even left the White House.
Tax-chick wrote: “My 3rd son graduated from high school last May. We looked at the options and said, “Get a lousy job!” He’s been working full-time as a Walmart stocker since last July, socking away money in the bank and learning why working really hard in college, once they reopen, is a good idea”
Good for you. My dad found summer jobs for me when I was in college. While my friends had cushy jobs like driving a delivery truck, he had me swing a sledgehammer on survey crews. Lots of fun in southern oklahoma when it’s 104 and not a cloud in the sky.
I asked him why all the jobs he found me were hard, physical labor. He answered: “When you graduate and you’re working in an airconditioned office, I want you to know how it is too really work for a living.”
Sorry, Lela, but you're going to the wrong school.
Well, Lela, why don’t you and your fellow students get disobedient? Organize some demonstrations, take over the dean’s office, picket the registrar, whatever. If you just keep putting up with the nonsense, merely whining won’t make the college administrators stop it.
So do something about it and go to a different college.
I have lived in Oklahoma, myself.
We have found with our children that none of them takes college seriously until they’ve spent some time in the kind of jobs you get without education. Low-end retail turned my oldest boy into an A+ student. Food service has motivated some of the others.
Walmart associates, even part-timers, can get college education for $1 a day from Walmart. Basically tuition free. Not many choices — health care field, marketing, business, a few others. But a bachelor’s degree can be had on the cheap in less than 4 years.
Yes, we’ve looked into that. He’ll have to decide what courses he wants to take if college is open for in-person class in the fall.
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