Where the heck is the governor? (dorms, buying, school)

[masssachoicetts]

Many many Schools in Upstate NY NYC and CT closed in addition to MA ones. Yikes.

Just saw something from Syracuse University.. .closed to atleast March 30th. They are scared of students going back to NYC, White Plains, catching COVD19, then transmitting it through the school... it would spread like wildfire in the dorms. And if the mortality rate is 2% for the age 20-29 age group, that would mean of the 10,000 on-campus at a given university 150-250 would die.

[MassVt]

Originally Posted by mdovell

It's more than just masks its actual testing kits. You can't test unless you have the same test kid because remember it has to be the same quality of a test otherwise we could end up with 50 or so different standards than the federal government of each state wants their own one.

Where do you think the medical community gets many of their masks from? the state and federal contracts. The Declaration of emergency simply means we're able to do things faster they would normally take a longer time.

The fact that Harvard wants to have the students evacuated by Sunday makes me wonder where exactly they're supposed to go. You have about a hundred eighteen thousand people in Cambridge and nearly 22,000 of them are Harvard students that live on campus. That's nearly 20% of the population that has to leave in less than a week. I don't think the Boston area has another 20,000 Apartments just sitting there on the market.

Harvard doesn't want Gatherings of more than 25 people so if that's the case you just can't do anything on campus. You could literally turn your head and see 25 people in Boston. 25 people... that's not even a street corner. Boston might not be the largest populated area in the country but as a city it's got the fourth largest population density per square mile.

Harvard does NOT have 22,000 students. Please...

[proceedtemp]

Originally Posted by MassVt

Harvard does NOT have 22,000 students. Please...

Harvard University has around 22,000 students across the College, graduate, and professional schools located in Cambridge and Boston. When people refer to Harvard students, often they mean the subset of roughly 6,700 students who attend Harvard College. Students arrive every year in late August.

https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvar...e/student-life

[Dm84]

Originally Posted by MassVt

Harvard does NOT have 22,000 students. Please...

Harvard is much bigger than Harvard College.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

Many many Schools in Upstate NY NYC and CT closed in addition to MA ones. Yikes.

Just saw something from Syracuse University.. .closed to atleast March 30th. They are scared of students going back to NYC, White Plains, catching COVD19, then transmitting it through the school... it would spread like wildfire in the dorms. And if the mortality rate is 2% for the age 20-29 age group, that would mean of the 10,000 on-campus at a given university 150-250 would die.

2%? Closer to 0.2% probably, and of course it won't be a 100% infection rate.

In a few years we will know the efficacy of these mitigation attempts. Right now we have no idea about the rates of infection or mortality.

[Bridge781]

So do employees get to stay home too? I’m guessing no. They’ll still be expected to trek in via public transportation. Why are only the students being considered?

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by Bridge781

So do employees get to stay home too? I’m guessing no. They’ll still be expected to trek in via public transportation. Why are only the students being considered?

So you ask a question, don't know the answer, assume a negative thing... then ask why that negative thing is happening like its fact... um. Wow.

[mdovell]

Originally Posted by MassVt

Harvard does NOT have 22,000 students. Please...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/harv...rus-fears.html

, Harvard enrolls nearly 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and 97% of undergraduate students live on campus for all four years."

I'm sorry it's 19,400.

That's how many have to move out in the next week. Read it for yourself

[yesmaybe]

Originally Posted by Bridge781

So do employees get to stay home too? I’m guessing no. They’ll still be expected to trek in via public transportation. Why are only the students being considered?

Some of them will be getting a pink slip soon, I bet...

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by mdovell

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/harv...rus-fears.html

, Harvard enrolls nearly 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and 97% of undergraduate students live on campus for all four years."

I'm sorry it's 19,400.

That's how many have to move out in the next week. Read it for yourself

Um, I don't know about the other grad schools, but almost none in the one I worked at stayed in university dorms.

This will primarily impact undergrads, a much smaller number, and some will be staying of course on campus, esp if international. We are talking less than 7k. Most will probably just go home for a bit. Not really a crisis.