UNC-Chapel Hill reverses plans for in-person classes after 130 students test positive for Covid-19

But did any of them actually feel sick?

Well done ip tracker.

So I will ask again. Did any of them feel sick?

Seems insane to shut down a university of that size and status if many/most were asymptomatic.

for g sake wrote:

Well done ip tracker.

So I will ask again. Did any of them feel sick?

Seems insane to shut down a university of that size and status if many/most were asymptomatic.

Even if half the students who contracted covid19 were asymptomatic, the rate at which it spreads would lead to a lot of students getting a symptomatic version, a lot of professors and staff getting a symptomatic version, several people dying, many requiring hospitalization. If one guy is asymptomatic, but 3 guys from his dorm need to get hooked up to ventilators, 7 are coughing their lungs out in bed, and one guy dies, the asymptomatic guy - or 10 don't get to go ho hum every thing is fine and go about their lives. I'm sorry you don't get how respiratory viruses work. This isn't a grand conspiracy to keep you from having fun.

Just because you lack empathy and only care about yourself doesn't mean everyone else wants to go, I'm asymptomatic, I don't care who I infect, I've got fun stuff to do.

So they waited until they returned to class, paid for room and board, and then shut down classes a week later. So now we have a bunch of students living in dormitories, paying for housing, and going to class online in their rooms. Oh well, as long as the school got its money.

Shut this down until we Get Biden in office. Until then, quit being selfish and killing people's grandparents!!

DerpDaDerpDerp wrote:

for g sake wrote:

Well done ip tracker.

So I will ask again. Did any of them feel sick?

Seems insane to shut down a university of that size and status if many/most were asymptomatic.

You’re right. They should’ve waited until more parents/grandparents/professors were sick or dying. 170,000 dead isn’t that many. More like flu numbers if you ask me. Totally worth it.

Just kidding you’re an idiot.

I know you probably don’t know this but millions of people die every year, because that’s what happens. Everyone dies, sometimes you can do something to extend your life sometimes you can’t. No one is guaranteed a tomorrow. That’s why you get your life right today. And amazingly when you do, you can have peace and don’t have to live in fear any more.

That’s 0.4% of the student population. What % were they expecting? 0%?

425 people tested positive in North Carolina today. I assume that approx 3,000 people tested positive in the past week in North Carolina. NC population is 10.5 million. Therefore 0.02% of the population tested positive in the past week.

If the number of tests was higher at the University than in general North Carolina population, then you can expect this figure to be higher than 0.02%.

What was their cut off point to shut the University?

The current situation does not point to 0% case.

University administration seem to be of lower than average intelligence if they were expecting zero cases. I therefore suggest that people looking for an education avoid this University. I also suggest that employers stay away from students who graduated from this university.

YwH, but they only tested 950 or so students. So a positivory rate of well over 15% and above the Trump administrations guideline threshold.

There have been 279 students that have tested positive and 45 employees. There were serious outbreaks in 4 dorms including one dorm where every student except two tested positive.

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Smoove wrote:

YwH, but they only tested 950 or so students. So a positivory rate of well over 15% and above the Trump administrations guideline threshold.

Ok, they tested approx 3.3% or their student population.

Yesterday, the IS tested approx 0.2% of their population, so I assume 1.5% in the past week. So there were twice the amount of test at the University then in General population.

Again, what percentage of the student population was deemed to be an acceptable number for them?

0% until Biden is president. Then everything back to normal. 200,000 excess deaths this year means 200,000 less than normal next year. Biden will be a hero.

I actually feel the sympathetic people are those calling for the world to reopen. We're willing to accept the risk this poses to not destroy the economy which will adversely affect those of lesser means. Most of those calling for shutdowns can either work at home or are financially well off and this may hurt their investments but they'll be just fine.

There is not one States with zero new cases per day. There are therefore zero States that have zero cases in an entire week.

In an average week, you will have 0.1% of the population which tests positive. This includes infants and children below age of 10, so it’s obviously a higher percentage in the 20 to 30 year old group. Again, what percentage were they expecting? Did they expect a miracle?

You are either ok with X% new cases per week or you simply do not open the schools right now.

Every school in the US will see anywhere between 0.25% to 0.5% new cases per week (initially at least) if they do enough testing to see this number. If they test less they will be “see” less cases, which does not mean that there are less people who are positive (it’s just that you are unaware).

do to I have fjjjj wrote:

But did any of them actually feel sick?

this is about as stupid as saying that we shouldn't fight a forest fire next to a city because no one lives in the trees that are on fire.

"but did any of those trees have people living in them?"

i mean what a completely blind way of looking at things....the height of idiocracy

They should have run antibody tests two weeks before they got to campus because a lot have probably already had it. Young adults have not been distancing at all. They may be over reacting over nothing as most may already have antibodies.

So they established that 15% have active COVID. Considering that this has been around 6 months, the other 85% may already have antibodies.

old news wrote:

DerpDaDerpDerp wrote:

You’re right. They should’ve waited until more parents/grandparents/professors were sick or dying. 170,000 dead isn’t that many. More like flu numbers if you ask me. Totally worth it.

Just kidding you’re an idiot.

I know you probably don’t know this but millions of people die every year, because that’s what happens. Everyone dies, sometimes you can do something to extend your life sometimes you can’t. No one is guaranteed a tomorrow. That’s why you get your life right today. And amazingly when you do, you can have peace and don’t have to live in fear any more.

This has gotta be the worst take of all time. Everyone who is trying to prevent the illness is “living in fear”, while you’re “living in peace”, because hey, everybody dies eventually, right? You should drive your car down the highway with no seatbelt, or better yet, against traffic, because everyone dies eventually. You’re the worst.

University campus is the best to let COVID rip. College kids spreading to each other with virtually little chance of even getting symptoms is perfect.

Now UNC will send these kinds home where they will infect dad and keep him out of work for weeks, while also killing grandma. Stupid, if they kept them on campus nobody gets hurt and we get closer to beating this thing,

DerpDaDerpDerp wrote:

old news wrote:

I know you probably don’t know this but millions of people die every year, because that’s what happens. Everyone dies, sometimes you can do something to extend your life sometimes you can’t. No one is guaranteed a tomorrow. That’s why you get your life right today. And amazingly when you do, you can have peace and don’t have to live in fear any more.

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Great post, old news.