Posted on 10/18/2022 3:17:19 PM PDT by matt04
This school year has seen the most relaxed COVID-19 restrictions since the pandemic began, with optional and self-directed testing, a lift in the mask mandate and an near-full return to in-person instruction.
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“With the university lifting its guidelines and making it up to the individual, they’re making an already not accessible place less accessible,” Karen Wang ’24, who is a Student Accessibility Services peer liaison, said. “I find it really disturbing that people who don’t mask say that they care for their community, but your actions show you’re working within an ableist framework.”
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Colin Loria ’26 told the News that since the mask mandate was lifted, he has noticed more people coming down with illnesses.
AJ Nakash ’26 described similar trends, specifically noting what students refer to as the “Yale Plague” — or the Yague — cold-like symptoms that health experts say represents the onset of a variety of seasonal viruses.
“I believe that the lifting of the requirement aligned with the rise in the spread of the ‘yague,’” Nakash said. “More students on campus are sick right now and the mask requirement seems to be the main thing that has changed.”
This anecdotal uptick in illness might not be exclusively due to the mask mandate lifting: increased stress from midterms and seasonal allergies may also play a role. Suzanne Castillo ’23 said that in her experience, sickness always seems to spike on campus around this time of year, whether or not COVID-related.
Castillo noted that she continues to wear her mask in class and that she has observed a few fellow students start to double up on their masks since the mandate was lifted. With the mask-optional policy, Castillo also told the News that she has observed noticeably sick peers not wearing masks.
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Thankfully, the are all jabbed and boosted so they can't get, spread or get sick with Covid, right?
Shouldn’t Yale be focused on fixing New Haven?
Seriously?
The entire University system in this country needs to be destroyed.
All of it.
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A) Using a facemask to prevent the person-to-person transmission of an airborne respiratory virus is like using chicken wire to keep out mosquitos.
B) So, because of A, those aren’t really masks, are they? They’re muzzles.
There are myriad accessibility options for just about every impairment, and I’m sure they would find ways to accommodate those they haven’t yet solved. If you need a wheelchair there are ramps and elevators and wide doors. If you can’t hear they have transcription. If you can’t see they have recordings and brail. If you have an immune disease you can watch the lecture by zoom. This is how you solve the “ableist framework”, not by contorting everyone else with pretzel language logic.
As long as they can keep the bad part of NH out of the Yale area, they don’t care.
^ Braille
:-(
......Shouldn’t Yale be focused on fixing New Haven?......
No, they should be focused on fixing Yale—for example, from wokeism and from Trump Derangement Syndrome!!!!
Look at the bright side...if you croak, you won’t have to pay back those student loans.
In Asia, many people wear masks, and had done so before covid. Yet oddly enough, flu comes from China every year.
Too perfect.
Yale just pledged $52 million over the next 6 years in voluntary payments to the City of New Haven in what is part of an ongoing parasitic relationship that rewards a corrupt, fiscally broken city hall. That's the fix.
You see what you want to see, don’t you, Colin?
People haven’t worn face diapers where I live in ages and there doesn’t appear to be any uptick in colds/flu.
https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/py5iux/hmmmmm_i_dont_know_what_to_think_about_this/
Above is the best I’ve seen.
In any case, masks are fomites.
And even if fomites aren’t an issue with CoupFlu, there are other bugs out there.
The largest health scandal when I was in college was the outbreak of crab lice amongst the most uptight sorority.
You’d think people at an Ivy League school would have some idea of basic biology.
Really people didn’t want to hear that a 100nm wide virus would go through a 500nm pore. If you tried to tell them they would not believe.
Ok so I routinely performed electron microscopy for years and had some idea of scale but these students are supposed to be America’s brightest.
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