Posted on 04/14/2021 8:47:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I feel sorry for those currently in college.
For droves of 2020 freshmen, what should’ve been the most exciting time of their lives turned out to be a depressing, disconnected dud, courtesy of culture shock via no in-person classes and no extracurriculars.
And even now — over a year past the start of our planetary pandemic — in many cases, a casual walk across the quad can’t check the most basic box of satisfactorily seeing one’s peers.
For what may feel like a lifetime, Americans out and about have grown accustomed to everyone hiding in plain sight.
Visually, there’s a moratorium on mouths.
And in stores, in theaters — even outdoors — noses have become the new nipples: No shirt, no service.
So go coverings on campus, as well.
And when and where is a face more important than at an adolescent’s social peak?
After all, that’s how Facebook began — Mark Zuckerberg had reached the perfect (-ly awful?) age to want to rate people’s faces.
Hence, perhaps, not every college student has masks in mind.
And one secondary school in Standish, Maine is making them pay for their preference.
As reported by Boston’s CBS4, Saint Joseph’s College is “cracking down on students not wearing masks on campus.”
The institution, in fact, has decided to fine those who break the rules.
Over just the past couple weeks, 21 citations have been handed out.
Student Patrick Meyers described a Sunday afternoon incident that left him ticketed:
“[A campus police officer] kind of just saw me slipping without a mask on. I had it below my nose and rolled right around to me said, ‘Hate to do this to you, but I got to give you a $50 fine.’”
Patrick must’ve hated it, too — he told WBZ the weather that day was terrific.
Of course, Saint Joseph’s is far from alone where covering one’s countenance is concerned.
Many cities still have mandates, and Texas’s Odessa College, for example, is continuing the requirement even though Gov. Greg Abbott ended his order March 10th.
On March 2nd, Odessa’s website announced accordingly:
[W]e will continue to follow the CDC guidelines to mitigate the spread and unpredictability of the COVID-19 virus. The college’s screening and sanitization protocols significantly reduce exposure to the virus in learning and student support spaces. As such, the college will maintain the current pandemic protocol until further notice:
- Daily health screenings
- Mandatory face coverings
- Social distancing practices
- Sanitization of work, learning and student support spaces.
Back to Maine, Saint Joseph’s Spokesman Oliver Griswold hailed a main mission:
“We are using all of the tools at our disposal to try to keep COVID off campus.”
Clearly, they are — to the tune of fifty bucks a pop.
From Channel 4:
The college is defending the fines saying students were given plenty of advance notice about the fines.
If only we’d all have been given advance notice about 2020.
Perhaps the faithful would’ve prayed to St. Joseph for something different.
>>[W]e will continue to follow the CDC guidelines
“whatever they are this week”
Tell the school to f’k off.
Leave.
Take friends with you.
Starve The Beast.
Clear face shield on glasses frames.
Covers eyes, as well as nose & mouth.
I’ve worn one into 7-8 businesses, no problem, no hassles.
My 17 year old and his mother, (my fantastically beautiful wife), go head to head over mask wearing. He hates the mask because his face breaks out incessantly wearing the mask all day at school in Ohio, and then completely clears up when we’re in FL for a few days and he doesn’t have to wear a mask.
Tells my wife, “Mom, you should not be comfortable in slavery, that mask is your Hijab, don’t wear it with pride or a sense of duty, it’s your symbolic submission.”
Love that kid!
You gotta punish those people who dare to think for themselves!
I’ve lived in Maine for nearly thirty years and I’ve never heard of St. Joseph’s College.
A transparent burka. How nice.
^5, he gets it and you’ve done well!
I hope the parents of Patrick Meyers refuse to donate to any of the college’s alumni funds, etc.
They might be able to get their $50 back by doing this.
From the brief article:
“In a strongly-worded memo noting that face coverings are a “personal decision” and that “the data shows us that districts’ face covering policies do not impact the spread of the virus,” Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran today asked school districts to make face masks voluntary for the 2021-22 school year.”
Buddy of mine graduated along with the rest of us in 2002. Transcripts show he graduated. He walked with us. University refused to send him his paper because he has $25 in unpaid parking tickets. He’s avowed to never pay them a dime. I don’t blame him. I’d still walk around campus without a mask, just to spite them.
Always A Marine wrote:
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“Clear face shield on glasses frames. Covers eyes, as well as nose & mouth. I’ve worn one into 7-8 businesses, no problem, no hassles.”
A transparent burka. How nice.”
I wear it so that the hearing disabled folks who don’t know sign language and must lip-read can understand what I am saying.
I myself am hearing disabled, don’t know sign language, and must lip-read in order to communicate.
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