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Brace Yourselves. This College's New COVID Restrictions Are Almost Too Insane To Be Real
Townhall.com ^ | 29 Auguast A.D. 2021 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 08/29/2021 8:48:39 PM PDT by lightman

Students at Amherst College are about to face some of the toughest COVID restrictions in the country as they begin the Fall 2021 semester next month.

The private liberal arts college, located in Amherst, Massachusetts, announced the tightened public health rules Tuesday in response to concerns about the spread of the Delta variant. For now, the restrictions will apply from move-in until September 13 (via The Amherst Student):

The restrictions include: indoor double-mask mandates, two Covid tests upon arrival, a bi-weekly testing requirement, limits on indoor gathering sizes, off-campus travel restrictions and an elimination of in-person dining services.

Upon arrival, students will receive both a PCR test and a rapid antigen test. The college has decided that in accordance with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), anyone who has tested positive for Covid will be put into isolation for 10 days in either designated dorm rooms or at home for students and staff respectively. The college is not offering standard remote learning options this year, but class deans will assist quarantined students so that they will not fall behind on school work.

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Amherst will require all employees, faculty and students to wear face coverings while inside campus buildings — regardless of their vaccination status, according to an email sent from Martin on Aug. 16. The masking requirement was enhanced as of Aug. 24: all students must double-mask (wear two pleated filter masks on top of one another) if they are not wearing a KN95 mask in classrooms and other academic spaces operating at 100 percent capacity.

Community members could originally unmask in their residence halls, but that is no longer the case. Masks are now required to be worn in residence hall common areas, until at least Sept. 13. Students may unmask in their own dorm rooms. Alternatively, when indoors and outside of their residence halls, unvaccinated students must be masked at all times unless they are alone with the door closed. If outdoors, unvaccinated students must wear face coverings when a six-foot distance cannot be maintained. All community members must mask up if they are attending a gathering of more than 25 people, regardless of the location on campus.

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Students will be permitted to visit the town of Amherst, masked when indoors, for the purpose of “conducting business” (i.e. opening bank accounts and picking up prescriptions). Students are not allowed to go to restaurants or bars.

Events and sports competitions are slated to take place as scheduled. Spectators are allowed but must be masked. No pre or post-game tailgating or celebrations will be permitted. Large events will be minimized and there will be no registered parties indoors on the campus grounds. No events with alcohol will be permitted at the beginning of the semester.

Sounds more like prison than school, but hey, if parents are still down with paying $70,000 per year for their kids to live like convicts in order to try to avoid a virus that poses little risk to young, healthy people, so be it


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: amherst; covid1984; education; hysteria; massachusetts; paranoia; snowflakes
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Masking required for "protected sex".

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1 posted on 08/29/2021 8:48:39 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman
Reminding me of the medieval flagellants who beat themselves bloody in expiation of their sins.

COVID Panic is a religion, you know.

2 posted on 08/29/2021 8:55:49 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: lightman

Karma for these uber liberals. Amherst Prison. Bet that will make a really great school. How many will quit and go to a different school, if they could.


3 posted on 08/29/2021 8:57:31 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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All that’s missing is the manned guard towers and razor wire.


4 posted on 08/29/2021 8:57:33 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: lightman

Karma for these uber liberals. Amherst Prison. Bet that will make a really great school. How many will quit and go to a different school, if they could.


5 posted on 08/29/2021 8:58:03 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: lightman

Q: When do they start wearing a Burka?
A: When Pelosi becomes President in 2022.


6 posted on 08/29/2021 9:03:03 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: lightman

Full communist bullcrap. Just withdraw. Say. “ I’ll take my 70k elsewhere “. ( stupid rich liberal parents )


7 posted on 08/29/2021 9:06:30 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! I could )
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To: Zathras
They're already practicing:


8 posted on 08/29/2021 9:07:22 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Ahhh, the Boston area is reverting to their Puritan roots. They’ll be back to burning witches in no time. That behavior is deeply embedded in the local culture.


9 posted on 08/29/2021 9:09:50 PM PDT by glorgau
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Which administrators have stock in the pcr and antigen testing companies?


10 posted on 08/29/2021 9:10:13 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: glorgau

Yup....Pandemic paranoia Puritanism.


11 posted on 08/29/2021 9:10:25 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Masking required for “protected sex”. <<<

lol when I use to hang around Amherst...the females were all on the pill....but being smart.. they all carried brown paper bags to make sure they got lucky at closing time...

12 posted on 08/29/2021 9:15:58 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: Zathras

Rampant routhoúniphobia.

(Fear of nostrils)


13 posted on 08/29/2021 9:20:28 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Amherst. Evergreen on tha haba.


14 posted on 08/29/2021 9:24:26 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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[[The restrictions include: indoor double-mask mandates,]]

The people in power sure get a kick out of pissing on other people


15 posted on 08/29/2021 9:27:51 PM PDT by Bob434
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The restrictions include: indoor double-mask mandates…

The virus is airborne and smaller than the wavelength of light. Wear 10 masks, it will make no difference. It’s like expecting two chain link fences will keep out flies.


16 posted on 08/29/2021 9:36:26 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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Amherst - now the Lubianka Prison of Massachusetts. Very fitting comparison. One’s a communist prison in Moscow. The other is a communist prison in Massachusetts (but it’s a “mostly pleasant prison” for the cost).


17 posted on 08/29/2021 9:41:24 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: lightman

#8. Those masks look a lot like either a Black Bikini bottom, a black jockstrap, or a large bra cut in two.

I wouldn’t wear one. You never know where it’s been.


18 posted on 08/29/2021 9:43:35 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Reno89519

Most all very liberal, so they won’t mind at all. In fact, I assume most applaud the restrictions and probably want more.


19 posted on 08/29/2021 9:46:37 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: lightman
Rampant routhoúniphobia.

Also known as Waxman Syndrome.


20 posted on 08/29/2021 9:48:20 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake election, fake president, real deaths.)
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