quarantine

[lauradi7dw]

Massachusetts in theory requires 14 days of quarantine for people coming in from other states, with a regional exemption. I complied after my NC trip. What I don't think is being done by most (any?) area universities (or prep schools, for that matter) is universal quarantine for arriving students. The military academies did this, and after the two weeks started a mixed program of masked outdoor training and online classes otherwise. It seems to have worked at Annapolis and West Point. The Air Force Academy is being less transparent. Boston College (Arthur's employer) is feeling overly cocky, in my opinion, presumably because they have successfully housed a few hundred students over the summer who would have lost their visas or otherwise been harmed if they had to return whence they came. That's not the same a a campus full of folks. Arthur has been tested, once, and given a wrist band to prove it. I think they are doing that for everyone, and requiring masks and distance. Some classes will be in person, with students spread out. Others will be online. I don't see how that is much different from other campuses with have already shut down due to virus clusters. I know that college campuses are kind of like their own worlds, but it seems to me that Massachusetts regulations should be followed.

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[nosrednayduj]

Jocelyn is at Reed now, and they quarantined all of the incoming students until their tests came back. Hers took three days. They seem to be pretty serious about the quarantining of the students until test results. They are having a staggered arrival, so some students are still in quarantine, and some have been let out. Unfortunately Jocelyn was let out on Saturday morning, and the mailroom is not open on weekends, and so her packages, which have arrived, are still stuck in the mailroom. She'll get them on Monday.

Whether they can keep it up during the school year, keeping the students from going off campus and partying, remains to be seen. It's probably easier at a small college like Reed than at a giant university in the middle of a big city.

[lauradi7dw]

Sounds like they're doing their best, as opposed to some sort of magical thinking.

[sorcyress]

I don't think I realized Arthur was BC --I'm friends with the chair of their classics department. She mentioned at least the testing was relatively fast, although it sounds from here like they're not planning to do lots of it. :/

[lauradi7dw]

I think most of what Arthur will do will be online this academic year. I don't think BC is really thinking clearly about testing, unlike BU, or especially Yale, which (with the NBA is test subjects) is planning to use the new saliva test very often.