Posted on 04/26/2020 2:11:29 PM PDT by Conserv
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nothing beats the campus experience at Purdue University, not even the coronavirus. That’s what officials at the Indiana university are hoping anyway, with President Mitch Daniels floating plans to reopen campus for in-person classes in the fall while saying the COVID-19 virus “poses close to zero lethal threat” to young people.
Purdue was among the first wave of colleges to announce a shift from in-person classes in early March, leaving students, faculty and staff to adapt quickly to an online setting by transitioning course material and operating online video platforms like Zoom for classes and meetings.
Now, as some states move to reopen non-essential businesses and boost the economy, Purdue and Daniels are at the forefront of efforts to put students back on campus for the fall.
“I can tell you for the moment, there is strong, strong interest for a Purdue education for this fall,” Daniels told the university Senate Monday. “We have every intention of being on campus this fall. We are sober about the challenges that will bring. We believe in the value of the on-campus experience, and we’re determined, if we’re permitted to do so by the public authorities and medical circumstances. If at all possible, we intend to be open and operating.”
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It is amazing how well these two factors, sanity and financial survival work together.
“It helps when sanity and financial survival line up.
Hanging focuses the mind wonderfully.”
“Wearing masks is dumb. It’s just the flu. Open everything and the government can shut up.”
Agree completely. The mortality of Covid-19 is about the same as the 2017-2018 flu: 1 in 5,000 in the US. So do what you did then; you obviously survived.
Or, force everyone to wear masks and act like it’s the plague.
We’ve been had.
No mask for me, period. And (horrors!) I’ll shake hands and share tables with strangers.
“ Wrong! Hospitals are laying people off. They aren’t super busy and they won’t be super busy until this lockdown ends.”
Yes, hospitals have been laying people off, largely because hospital administrators have curtailed all health care services that are not covid related. That turned out with perfect hindsight to be a mistake because the wave was much smaller than expected.
What I am predicting — and yes, I am contrarian on this — is that demand for health care will come roaring back.
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