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Too swoll to control said:
Correct. This is impacting a lot of my friends and students. It doesn't apply to students who might come in the future or try to attend classes. It's deporting students who are already here unless they attend classes in person. If their schools are only offering online classes, they have to either find a school that has in person and risk COVID or return home.

It's just one more example of the anti-skilled migrant agenda being trojan horsed through in the name of COVID. The problem is if universities shift to in person or hybrid to accommodate their non-resident students (many of whom pay full tuition out of pocket since they aren't eligible for US financial aid) then all the other students will have to go back in person increasing risk. It's a truly moronic policy.
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It truly does not compute.
 
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Too swoll to control said:
Correct. This is impacting a lot of my friends and students. It doesn't apply to students who might come in the future or try to attend classes. It's deporting students who are already here unless they attend classes in person. If their schools are only offering online classes, they have to either find a school that has in person and risk COVID or return home.

It's just one more example of the anti-skilled migrant agenda being trojan horsed through in the name of COVID. The problem is if universities shift to in person or hybrid to accommodate their non-resident students (many of whom pay full tuition out of pocket since they aren't eligible for US financial aid) then all the other students will have to go back in person increasing risk. It's a truly moronic policy.
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As well as an illegal policy. My county's K-12 school board announced yesterday that not all students would be returning for in-person classes next month when the school year begins. Afaik every college or university in the area is doing the same.

How can one group of people be required to do something that no other group is required to do?

Hopefully the administration pulls the plug without the need for the courts to get involved but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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conor mcgregor nut hugger said:
As well as an illegal policy. My county's K-12 school board announced yesterday that not all students would be returning for in-person classes next month when the school year begins. Afaik every college or university in the area is doing the same.

How can one group of people be required to do something that no other group is required to do?

Hopefully the administration pulls the plug without the need for the courts to get involved but I'm not holding my breath.
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Have they said how they determine who comes and who doesn't?
 
BeardOfKnowledge

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Hauler said:
Are they as dumb as this one....

Must wear a mask into the bar, but once seated you can take it off.
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That's basically what they're going to be doing for restaurants mask when not at the table. Technically it's mask anytime you're not eating or drinking, but I don't know how you hand someone a ticket if you catch them without a mask on while taking sips of water.
 
Filthy

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ConorMcGregorsBeard said:
Well, you see most public health agencies told the public that wearing a mask increased the chances of getting sick and that they should not wear them.
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Same ones that told us it wasn't human transmissible when China was welding apartments shut and fumigating streets. People were cherry-picking their data because reality was too hard.

Some still are.
 
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Rambo John J said:
Oh

you really believe your getting the straight dope from china?

So that means yes we should be fumigating. What are the health effects of the fumigations? What was china fumigating with?
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Just let me have one subtle joke, Col Killjoy
 
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Splinty said:
Maybe but that number is probably high given that few models or experts think that. And then you have to ask, over what timeline?

In the near future? 150,000 dead is entirely conceivable and we are screwing up in many ways and doing well in others. Can't change yesterday. So seeing 200,000 dead in the next 18 months would not be shocking to me,
300,000 would put a real point on this that we were not optimal in our response.
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