What does the college fall semester look like?

@hshuler posted:

 

...and clearly there’s nothing to be suspicious of here.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/s...ding-vaccine-tattoo/

While these appear as Google links they redirect you to articles from Sputnik News.

Are you aware that Sputnik News (formerly "The Voice of Russia") is a platform established and owned by the Russian government and, not surprisingly, generally considered to consist of nothing but Russian propaganda?

These "articles" are not only garbage conspiracy theories masquerading as "news" but fiction concocted to sew fear and division. Just wanted to make sure you're aware of what you're spreading here.

The top one is Newsweek.  Do they count as a reliable source?

*Saw you just changed your post.

i also don’t think a bad source makes something wrong. It might be, but any source can have truth.   To debunk something, tell me specifically what is untrue. I found multiple articles, but maybe this source is credible enough?

https://bioengineering.rice.ed...d-vaccination-record

@Dirtbag30 posted:

While these appear as Google links they redirect you to articles from Sputnik News.

Are you aware that Sputnik News (formerly "The Voice of Russia") is a platform established and owned by the Russian government and, not surprisingly, generally considered to consist of nothing but Russian propaganda?

These "articles" are not only garbage conspiracy theories masquerading as "news" but fiction concocted to sew fear and division. Just wanted to make sure you're aware of what you're spreading here.

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@Dirtbag30 posted:

While these appear as Google links they redirect you to articles from Sputnik News.

Are you aware that Sputnik News (formerly "The Voice of Russia") is a platform established and owned by the Russian government and, not surprisingly, generally considered to consist of nothing but Russian propaganda?

These "articles" are not only garbage conspiracy theories masquerading as "news" but fiction concocted to sew fear and division. Just wanted to make sure you're aware of what you're spreading here.

Just want to be clear, I’m not “spreading” anything. People can come to their own conclusions.

I read stuff on here all the time that I don’t agree with so I dismiss it.

I’m not sure if Scientific American is a good source but here it is again.

https://www.scientificamerican...ave-been-vaccinated/

My son's school ,Xavier, is going to open up in the fall with Increased safety .

My guess is this wis what most of the schools will be doing.  Some may do a combo of In class and online but most will be back in the fall. 

@baseballhs posted:

i also don’t think a bad source makes something wrong. It might be, but any source can have truth.   To debunk something, tell me specifically what is untrue. I found multiple articles, but maybe this source is credible enough?

https://bioengineering.rice.ed...d-vaccination-record

All these articles are way off the topic of college fall semesters, which is what most are here to read. I commented because these propaganda pieces are not only off-topic but misleading.  The Sputnik News link is full of anti-vaxxer delusions  (e.g.,  "Doctors Say Bill Gates #Polio #Vaccine Has Created Deadly 'Super Polio") that play on various Orwellian conspiracy theories about the government forcing people to be tattooed, etc.

That nonsense needs to be called out for what it is. And if you think that is the same as a scientific journal article then I don't have anything further for you.

@fishnsail posted:

My son's school ,Xavier, is going to open up in the fall with Increased safety .

My guess is this wis what most of the schools will be doing.  Some may do a combo of In class and online but most will be back in the fall. 

Every college has a plan to open up for the fall. That's what they're planning on and hoping for. No doubt they have an alternative plan if they can't do it, but no need to publicize that now.

@Dirtbag30 posted:

Sure ... Dr. Fauci has served as the director since NIAID in 1984, has been on the front lines in diagnosing and understanding all worldwide infectious diseases in this country for thirty years, including overseeing the research that led to the effective clinical treatments for HIV/AIDS that essentially ended it as a fatal diagnosis, as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika, and overseeing and supporting researchers in academic centers across this country with an annual budget of $5.9 billion and is widely recognized for delineating the precise ways that immunosuppressive agents modulate the human immune response.

Sure ... Dr. Fauci's praises have been sung publicly and repeatedly by every president in this country going back to Reagan, hailed as our national leader in public health and infectious disease by his peers and colleagues across the world, has advised six presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues, was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation by making important basic scientific observations that underpin the current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response.

Sure ... Dr. Fauci ranked as the 41st most highly cited researcher of all time in a 2019 analysis of Google Scholar citations and ranked 8th out of more than 2.2 million authors in the field of immunology by total citation count between 1980 and January 2019.

Sure ... Dr. Fauci has delivered major lectures all over the world and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest honor given to a civilian by the President of the United States), the National Medal of Science, the George M. Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the Robert Koch Gold Medal, the Prince Mahidol Award, and the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award.  He also has received 45 honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.   

Sure ... all so impressive. Yada yada yada.

But what has Fauci done to impress PEDALDAD of HS Baseball Web.com fame!!!???

Huh??? Anything???   [silence follows]

That's what I thought. 

You said....“All these articles are way off the topic of college fall semesters, which is what most are here to read.” but you are free to provide your opinion as you wish. 

I’m just posting articles as food for thought fully realizing that most adults have already formed an their own opinions about this subject.

Although you didn’t ask, for the record I’m not anti-vaccine.

I think colleges much like the rest of nation are going to figure out they don’t have choice. They are going to reopen because the option of not is worse. 

as if this wasn’t obvious from the beginning....

@old_school posted:

I think colleges much like the rest of nation are going to figure out they don’t have choice. They are going to reopen because the option of not is worse. 

as if this wasn’t obvious from the beginning....

The school my son will be attending in the fall has opted for on-line summer sessions but a couple of days ago announced their plan to resume in-person instruction in mid-August.

We just got an email saying the same thing...the school is preparing for in person sessions this Fall.

From the NCAA:  college sports will only happen if all students are on campus:

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/...nt/story?id=70595925

Seems like it will be pretty complicated. 

All schools are hoping that it will be possible to bring students to campus, but they are not definiely announcing anything until June or July.  They know full well that it will be impossible to socially distance the students, the issue will be taking care of the sick ones (and, of course, the faculty and staff).

I don’t know if people all over the country get ads for SNHU (Southern New Hampshire University). It’s become one of the top online universities in the country. They also have a campus and sports teams. All of a sudden an obscure university is now consulting to many of the top universities in the country on how to do online learning correctly. 

When I lived in the west the ads were for University of Phoenix online education. I rarely see these ads anymore.

Yesterday I read an article with a statement from the NCAA all FCS football programs will start at the same time. Not in the article is the monkey wrench CA governor Gavin Newsom has tossed into the plan by announcing he can’t imagine there will be sports in CA anytime in 2020.

Maybe he’s doing it to raise his profile. His position affects every pro sport and all but college and high school spring sports. 

@RJM posted:

Yesterday I read an article with a statement from the NCAA all FCS football programs will start at the same time. Not in the article is the monkey wrench CA governor Gavin Newsom has tossed into the plan by announcing he can’t imagine there will be sports in CA anytime in 2020.

Maybe he’s doing it to raise his profile. His position affects every pro sport and all but college and high school spring sports. 

Newsome is overreaching his authority and cities, counties and citizens are openly disobeying his orders.  Lawsuits are coming I am sure.  He will be neutered soon.

@RJM posted:

10 to 20% would be 33-66 million people. There’s no way this would occur. A vaccine with this kind of potential devastation would never be given to the entire country. 

Correct me if I'm wrong but actually it could be just one person. The dreaded "patient zero". Now I'm sure these volunteers are kept quarantined during the study but still, it would be ironic to make matters worse trying to hurry a vaccine through.

@Smitty28 posted:

Newsome is overreaching his authority and cities, counties and citizens are openly disobeying his orders.  Lawsuits are coming I am sure.  He will be neutered soon.

PA is the same, 2 counties made formal releases they are now officially open and ignoring our governor.