Social Distancing at ISU

[CycloneErik]

It's all good, folks. ISU published a story with this headline on their inside news:




So far, no instructors that I know agree with the headline, but it's all good.

 

[Frak]

IIRC, the iowa city schools wanted to go strictly online. U of I might grant them their wish. I see that johnson county is at 16.5% positive tests. 15 is when you are looked at and considered, 20% is online only.

I'm actually surprised that the positive rate isn't higher. Why would you get tested if you weren't showing symptoms or part of contact tracing?

 

[VeloClone]

It's all good, folks. ISU published a story with this headline on their inside news:

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So far, no instructors that I know agree with the headline, but it's all good.

I was wondering where Bob was working these days...

 

[mynameisjonas]

Ames is up almost 200 cases since yesterday.

 

[3TrueFans]

Ames is up almost 200 cases since yesterday.

feelsbadman

 

[mynameisjonas]

Talked to an employee at the Ames hospital and he said avoid going to campustown. Rest of Ames is doing fine but it’s blowing up on campus. I’m sure the numbers are much worse than is publicly available so far.

 

[CycloneErik]

Ames is up almost 200 cases since yesterday.

Fake news. We're fine.

 

[Lyddea]

It's all good, folks. ISU published a story with this headline on their inside news:

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So far, no instructors that I know agree with the headline, but it's all good.

At my Uni, the administration put a ton of pressure on faculty to hold their classes in person so as to provide a "premium" experience for the students. Then we got hundreds of new COVID19 cases in two weeks. Now the administration has decided faculty have to move all those in-person classes to online, immediately.

Needless to say, we're thrilled with how the administration has handled things here

 

[CycloneErik]

At my Uni, the administration put a ton of pressure on faculty to hold their classes in person so as to provide a "premium" experience for the students. Then we got hundreds of new COVID19 cases in two weeks. Now the administration has decided faculty have to move all those in-person classes to online, immediately.

Needless to say, we're thrilled with how the administration has handled things here

The cream really rises to the top.

 

[iahawkhunter]

At my Uni, the administration put a ton of pressure on faculty to hold their classes in person so as to provide a "premium" experience for the students. Then we got hundreds of new COVID19 cases in two weeks. Now the administration has decided faculty have to move all those in-person classes to online, immediately.

Needless to say, we're thrilled with how the administration has handled things here

Just gotta get past the "no refunds if you drop now" date. I believe that date is tomorrow for ISU.

 

[nfrine]

The campus infection rate is looking a lot like packing plants.

 

[BCClone]

The campus infection rate is looking a lot like packing plants.

Not quite. At packing plants they would do a full employee test. On campuses it’s those who have symptoms.

 

[CloneJD]

SIAP - Bars in 6 counties to close.

https://who13.com/news/new-covid-19...weries-taverns-nightclubs-in-6-iowa-counties/

 

[ArgentCy]

From the article:
"Departments, many of them already being forced to lay off faculty, are expected, at their individual discretion, to pay for plexiglass barriers and hand sanitizer — or not.

Most alarming of all, perhaps, is the lack of testing. Unlike other colleges and universities reopening this fall, the University of Iowa has no programs in place for mass testing or contact tracing. "

What?! That is like the bare minimum stuff the university should be doing.

That isn't an article. That's an opinion piece from a NYC teacher. She was never going to be happy. They did start testing not long after, of course it wasn't well planned like ISU but it is **** Iowa.

I want to know why this is a surprise and how they think closing bars is going to help? Really, you have a bunch of new cases in counties where you just hand 10s of thousands of these people come to town? Shocked.

Gov. Reynolds shuts down some Iowa bars, 'strongly encourages' masks

Bars six Iowa counties will shut down until Sep. 20 by order of Gov. Kim Reynolds.

www.kcci.com

“When you look at the last two weeks, 23% of all new positive cases statewide were among young adults ages 19 to 24,” Reynolds said. “And that number is dramatically higher in several counties.”

 

[ArgentCy]

Ames is up almost 200 cases since yesterday.

How many tested, when, and what's the positive rate?

 

[larrysarmy]

This is not surprising in the least, been predicted for weeks, the question always was...how will the administration/state/county deal with increase of cases of younger people that would be certain to happen. You’ve seen proclemations from the ISU president, you see an increase adoption of masks and now you see temp closure of bars. Stay the course

 

[BCClone]

This is not surprising in the least, been predicted for weeks, the question always was...how will the administration/state/county deal with increase of cases of younger people that would be certain to happen. You’ve seen proclemations from the ISU president, you see an increase adoption of masks and now you see temp closure of bars. Stay the course

What will assist ISU in staying open is the pre-testing they did. If you look at Story versus Johnson county. Story has a 9% positive test rate over the last 14 days. IC is 17%. ISU still has the one week where they tested 1000 students and 2.2% were positive. That buys them a few days with a lower number when you knew more would go and get tested and allow you to weather that blip and get things moving in the right direction again.

 

[kcbob79clone]

Might help with social distancing



Seriously, a creative way to test for coronavirus

 

[Jer]

Might help with social distancing



Seriously, a creative way to test for coronavirus

Hard to imagine that was the only widely transmitted disease found on campus

 

[CNECloneFan]

At my Uni, the administration put a ton of pressure on faculty to hold their classes in person so as to provide a "premium" experience for the students. Then we got hundreds of new COVID19 cases in two weeks. Now the administration has decided faculty have to move all those in-person classes to online, immediately.

Needless to say, we're thrilled with how the administration has handled things here

I am getting ready to jump right into the same boat. This is going to be seen nation wide.