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Liberty University shifts to online classes due to rise in COVID-19 cases
The Hill ^ | 08/31/2021 | Cameron Jenkins

Posted on 08/31/2021 7:04:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Liberty University this week switched all classes to online instruction due to increasing COVID-19 cases.

The Virginia university made the change on Monday, just one week after the school year started, according to The Washington Post.

“The campus infection rate is higher than at anytime last year, our only local hospital is reaching capacity for ICU COVID treatment, and we project our Annex quarantine capacity to be reached soon,” officials wrote in a statement on Friday, the Post noted.

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We keep doing the same crap that did not work last year. Shut it down is the answer to everything these days. Nobody can make their own choices.
1 posted on 08/31/2021 7:04:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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How many flu cases this week? Oh, nobody tracks that. How about knee injuries? Concussions? Not being tracked? How many new aids cases this week, how about SARS? Ok, so we’re only tracking one thing and reporting on it daily? Seems like a odd strategy...


2 posted on 08/31/2021 7:09:20 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IMHO, Liberty University is sending a second signal. They’re saying, “We’re not worried about losing students by shifting to online only for a while like y’all loser woke universities are worried about. Our product sells itself even in an online only environment.”


3 posted on 08/31/2021 7:12:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All due to rise in “cases”? Each “case” (most not likely even feeling ill) is a gift of natural immunity to that person. It’s like they’re trying to stop the wind. Let herd immunity at Liberty arrive!


4 posted on 08/31/2021 7:13:19 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Campus isn’t shut down. They just switched to online classes for two weeks because the small local hospital is full.

Liberty’s Football game is going to be held as normal on September 4th (25K seat stadium).

They still aren’t mandating any vaccines or masks.


5 posted on 08/31/2021 7:13:30 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh stop., it’s a hoax. Many here have said as much.


6 posted on 08/31/2021 7:14:13 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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“We keep doing the same crap that did not work last year. Shut it down is the answer to everything these days. Nobody can make their own choices.”

Only in your mind does that world exist...


7 posted on 08/31/2021 7:14:27 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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How many deaths under 30 are there?


8 posted on 08/31/2021 7:18:39 AM PDT by bray (Time to resign Joe)
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What a frickin' joke. Unless all their students are morbidly obese and sickly then there is about 0.0001% of a concern. This just shows how ignorant and unintelligent people are at all levels of education.

Those that can't do, teach. Seems appropriate.

9 posted on 08/31/2021 7:20:01 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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For higher education, this is largely a liability. Some kid gets COVID and some parents may think of suing.

Frankly, there is nothing wrong with classes by ZOOM or Skype or whatever. As long as it is mostly lecture and Q&A, this can be done remotely with no loss of education. If your point of college was about hookups and beer bashes, I doubt Liberty is the college for you. If your reason for college was to earn a MRS degree, this could really hamper your efforts though.

Most of these kids will learn just fine remotely if they’ll only TURN OFF THEIR PHONES and focus on what’s presented in class.


10 posted on 08/31/2021 7:28:40 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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bump


11 posted on 08/31/2021 7:44:48 AM PDT by foreverfree
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I think that the same reasoning should apply to a Christian University that (in my opinion) applies to a Christian church: I want to go to a church (university) that trusts God more than it fears the virus.


12 posted on 08/31/2021 8:02:59 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: TexasGurl24

Thank you for the explanation, that is my understanding as well.

By the way, Liberty has had an online program for a long time and it is decent. My son is in his Junior year now at LUO


13 posted on 08/31/2021 8:09:41 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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I have a student in college. Students largely would rather have a vaccine and/or mask mandates (not that the latter does much) in college than shutting them down again and moving to online. It’s devastating for college kids when they do that—I know many kids that age. Most of them would much rather wear masks or get the vaccine than endure more “distance learning.” Liberty University made the wrong call here and it’s too bad.


14 posted on 08/31/2021 8:11:22 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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I know college students who would rather take online courses than the shots and masks.

Unfortunately, many classes and programs are not offered online.

Several will just drop out if can’t get exemptions.


15 posted on 08/31/2021 8:19:54 AM PDT by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump. Prayers for PDJT and his loyal supporters.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“We keep doing the same crap that did not work last year.”

I could be wrong, but I don’t think Liberty shut down in 2020. (IIRC)


16 posted on 08/31/2021 8:24:33 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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Young people can spread natural immunity while suffering minimal or no symptoms.


17 posted on 08/31/2021 8:29:14 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That university used to be a rock, but they have bought into all the Deep State propaganda now, like the supposed “COVID variants” that nobody has isolated.


18 posted on 08/31/2021 8:36:57 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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I’m happy to hear the latter. I was afraid they had gone full cultural Marxism.


19 posted on 08/31/2021 8:37:52 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a lie. My daughter is at Liberty right now and is attending classes in the classrooms. There has been a rise in C19 positive tests, but this is still from the hugely flawed PCR test which will return a positive result for the flu or the common cold.


20 posted on 08/31/2021 9:16:09 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The Media is the Virus.)
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