Posted on 08/29/2021 8:48:39 PM PDT by lightman
Yep, college life under a basic 24-hour curfew, wearing masks, etc. Doesn’t sound fun.
No oxygen for you!!
I know... to achieve the strictest possible regimen of COVID restrictions, simple don’t let any students in at all. Let them wander the countryside, but no one goes to Amherst at all. That will solve the problem all right.
Waxman apparently was the victim of certain “Man-Rodent” breeding experiments in the early fifties. Shame that.
“I’m Frank Lyman from Amherst” (Animal House reference)
Students are not allowed to go to restaurants or bars.
Anyone that goes there is certifiable. Holy crap.
The Dunking Chairs are the new COVID tests. If you die from being held underwater for three minutes, then it is proven you do not have COVID. Otherwise you must be burned at the stake.
Being allowed to go without masks in one’s one dorm room is counterintuitive. The tiny virus is circulated in the air of the dorm and can easily move into and out of dorm rooms.
This nonsense is not supported by any science.
Funny you should say that as I have always believed a book could be written as to how New England Liberals, led by all the colleges up there, reflect the ethos of their predecessors in that they see themselves as the Elect; consider anyone who disagrees with them as "heretics" deserving of punishment; strive to impose their views on all others, for their own good, of course. I could go on but that is the basic skeleton for an interesting social analysis.
I guess they wont be having Provincetown orgies.
These colleges and universities are intentionally tanking their enrollment with these policies so they can blame COVID for their financial losses instead of their own poor product. They can then get taxpayer funds to bail them out.
I think it’s as simple as, the administrators and other “smart people” would rather run their institutions into the ground than admit they were wrong.
Buy stock in “Cattle Cars”.
They are coming soon.
I think books like that have been written. Don’t remember where I first saw it, but there’s a thesis that after the Salem witch trials, which contemporaries viewed as a ridiculous hysteria, Puritanism took a severe PR hit. In order to reclaim the moral high ground, later Puritans and/or their inheritors glommed on to anti-slavery as the next crusade. As they spread westward, they took the new errand of anti-slavery with them, setting up the civil war years later.
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