Why are US campuses doubling down on mask mandates when they are being dropped everywhere else

They cannot let go of the power. There has to be a crisis in order to control people and our whole education system is a Marxist training ground.

College campuses used to encourage debate. Now debate is called "racism", "anti science" "conspiracy theorist". Why debate someone when you have no ability to back up your theory? Just call names and tell them how dumb they are. Science is about debate. College students should debate many subjects instead of being encouraged to not think for themselves.

Our current education system is a fraud.

Florida has a much older population than California.

I work for a university. They are not doubling down. In fact, the plan for the campus community is to remove indoor mask mandates in March, so long as community spread and case counts continue to go down, which is a reasonable plan.

Steve The Addict OFFICIAL -----^^^^^ wrote:

Most of these colleges are liberal. Big pharma probably has incentivized them with compensation as well. Many media corporations are sponsored by big pharma companies too. What a coincidence. 

I am glad you are on the boards. Fight back against the libs.

Hardloper wrote:

Whiskey Trail wrote:

My kid's school has in person classes with a masks required. Through contact tracing, they've determined that the vast majority of Covid cases in the campus community spread in social settings where masks are not worn. Very few cases arise from attendance in class, where masks are worn.

Since wearing a mask is, at worst, a minimal inconvenience, they're sticking with the mask requirement.

If you have a problem with wearing a mask, you really need to toughen up a little.

If wearing a mask is so easy why can't Democrat politicians do it?

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I am honestly fine with masking in certain areas (airplanes where you're jammed in next to people, airports, hair salons, dentists, healthcare facilities). But not everywhere else. The rest is virtue signaling.

Whiskey Trail wrote:

Look at deaths, not cases, since the vaccines became available.

It's more a function of vaccination rate, but masking and other mitigation efforts play a role as well. In particular, compare NY and Florida. Florida got absolutely hammered with deaths in 2021, much moreso than NY. And Florida's vaccination rate isn't even that bad.

Also, the libs and their communication departments for these big corporations use "cases" and not "deaths/hospitalizations" to drive fear and control.

Deaths/hospitalizations--if there were surges in deaths and hospitalizations, I'd be more pro mask than most liberals. But it's "cases", and mostly mild ones to boot. (The long-haulers are a concern to an extent though, but I think most of those long-haulers had pre-existing conditions too).

I have my doubts that cloth masks are that effective based on a self-reported study. But still, to the extent masks "work," they just delay the inevitable. They were never meant to be a long-term solution.

Harambe wrote:

Because people cried and fought getting vaccinated and we are nice enough not to fire them, so this is the next best thing to protect dumb boomer staff at these places.

What? No. Why are we still pushing ineffective measures to fight a non-deadly virus? Weird that you would think failure to take an ineffective vaccine is the reason we need to still push ineffective measures. I think the isolation has affected your thought processes a bit. Time to get out and take off the mask while you are doing it. Life is passing you by.

gfhdgfdg wrote:

I work for a university. They are not doubling down. In fact, the plan for the campus community is to remove indoor mask mandates in March, so long as community spread and case counts continue to go down, which is a reasonable plan.

Campuses have been pushing N95 and double masks in places. Odd behavior for a mild virus. Why people are still worried about the spread at all or monitoring it is odd, it is everywhere. "Community Spread" will stop once people stop watching it. Many mild viruses are rapidly spreading everywhere all of the time, but we don't care to pay attention. It is time to stop caring here, like we normally do.

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zxcvzxcv wrote:

Or compare California to Florida. California got more COVID at the very beginning with its travel to and from China, and the two were relatively similar for quite a while in death rates, though Florida was still 20% higher. Now Florida is 19th in death rate at 3,095/million, whereas California is just 38th at 2,079. Florida's death rate is 50% higher than California's, and more of that is mask mandates than vaccination, because their rates are relatively close. Florida is at 65.9% and California at 69.6%. That's a small part of the reason. A bigger part is the masks.

No, it is not the masks. Not at all. Florida's average age is one of the highest in the country while California is one of the lowest. Florida is at ~3000 death/million while many other high mask mandate states are much higher. You are just cherry-picking one example and are just wrong.

I just am accepting that we'll have masking the rest of our lives and to be conditioned to it.

None of us are powerful enough to stand up to it. It's not worth losing a job over.

Anyone who thinks they can avoid omicron indefinitely is an idiot. Just get it and get it over with. As a great doctor from Uganda put it:"Omicron is the vaccine that we were unable to create".

How else are they going to destroy the ability of the next generation to think and turn them into Democratic party activists?

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Florida also has the highest antivaxxer % in the country. Starting with their governor who thought that injecting antibodies after you get sick is better than taking a vaccine.

Thinking, science based humans control the campuses globally. Sit on this awhile before you react.

Harambe wrote:

Lead Foil Hat XXVII wrote:

No, it is not the masks. Not at all. Florida's average age is one of the highest in the country while California is one of the lowest. Florida is at ~3000 death/million while many other high mask mandate states are much higher. You are just cherry-picking one example and are just wrong.

Florida also has the highest antivaxxer % in the country. Starting with their governor who thought that injecting antibodies after you get sick is better than taking a vaccine.

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