Schlissel announces U-M opening in Fall
Just now on twitter
https://twitter.com/drmarkschlissel/status/1275066010643705856?s=21
The 2019-20 season would’ve ended in 2 days with Michigan Baseball winning the 2020 College World Series
Of course they're opening
Can't get paid if there isn't any students
Seems like a pretty well thought out plan. Nice for the students to have options on how they are most comfortable attending. Hope it works out!
It will be interesting to see what campuses look like in the fall. Universities can do all the social distancing planning they can do for classes, but we all know your local house / frat party is gonna be shoulder-to-shoulder
As long as they are not playing sports, everything will be fine.
Here we go again.... Football will be played. Hell, we’ve been playing in baseball tournaments the last 4 weeks, where there’s upwards of 1k people in the park. No sickness, and no spikes in Corona. As a matter of fact, full contact football begins today in Ohio for HS.
LOL wut
We had literally hundreds of thousands maybe even millions out protesting every single day for last couple weeks.
Be interesting see the results from that going forward.
Good schlissel, man!
Also from Dr. Schlissel today, quoted by The Michigan Daily's Daniel Dash:
“Michigan Athletics is working with our public health experts and consulting with the Big Ten and NCAA on determining whether our student-athletes can safely return to competition this fall. An announcement will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead.”
"weeks ahead"?
They should just make a decision. There's been plenty of time to figure this out.
Honestly, it probably means that a neutral observer would say that they shouldn't come back... Just look at sports across the country and the number of COVID positive cases. IMO, what they are trying to do it get to the answer 'Yes, sports will be back'.... so get off their ass
Love the leadership - could definitely see a Fall where B1G schools are open, and SEC schools are having some issues.
B1G schools are going to have their own issues, especially during Welcome Week. You can't tell me there won't be a bunch of frat parties and individual house parties (Greek Life will be far from the sole contributor here), where people won't be standing shoulder to shoulder, not wearing masks, drinking from the same keg, etc. Sure, SEC schools may have more issues because they are in states that have been largely opposed to quarantine and social distancing anyway, but Michigan, OSU, Wisconsin, and everyone will have their set of issues to work through as well.
Maybe. But, I think we should give the students a little bit of credit that they might make some adjustments to their behavior. Everyone who is going to be a student this fall has either lost a chunk of their college experience or their senior year of high school do to this. They know what is at stake and I'd like to think they will factor that in to what they do. Maybe I'm just naive...
Unfortunately a lot people of that age group tend to have pretty short memories when it comes to actions/consequences. Especially once you throw copious amounts of booze and sex into the mix.
I’m not saying it’s doomed to fail, but I wouldn’t exactly be wagering my house on it being successful either.
Not to add to the generalization of that age group, but in college I swore many times I'd never drink again only to have the weekend arrive and there I'd be, ready to go. I know there is a sense of invincibility at that age, especially tied with the information that young healthy adults are not at a high risk to suffer greatly even if they get it.
I hope they are more responsible than I was at that age, but that is a hypocritical expectation of mine.
Even beyond the whole drinking/partying aspect is the fact that a college campus is a perfect environment for a virus to spread and there’s a reason they’re called a Petri dish.
Just look at the dorms. You’ve got thousands of people, stacked on floors of small rooms, sharing bathrooms, dining halls, lounges and other communal spaces. As well as frequently socializing between rooms, floors, and other dorms.
They could all practice total abstinence and be the biggest group of teetotalers around and the environment is still ripe for the rapid spread of infections. Throw in booze and sex and it’s a virus free for all.
Parties are already a problem and will continue to be a problem throughout the fall semester. But let's not pretend it's just a case of "kids these days" not recognizing consequences. If you look at the people refusing to wear a mask at stores and restaurants, you'll see that the problem isn't a generational thing where only young people are shortsighted with the virus.
College kids are gonna party. There would have been the same issue if there was a pandemic in the 70s, 80s, or 90s.
Yup, can confirm. I went for a late evening run the other night near campus and saw multiple parties with 10-50+ people packed on porches and front lawns. The risks will only multiple as people come back to campus from around the country and world and do the same thing x 50 every weekend and then move those parties indoors as it gets colder. I didn't take a look at the plan yet but I hope they have some good ideas for dealing with multiple super spreader events and what to do with students who test positive.
I think young people still believe they are invincible unless directly impacted. Here's a tweet showing the lines on State's campus last week. I know, I know STAEE but I'm sure South U will look similar once everyone is back on campus.
https://twitter.com/AliceDreger/status/1273780125658755075?s=20
I think you're giving college students a little too much credit with that line of thinking. Even UM students. I think by your logic, you could also look at this and say "Students just lost a chunk of their college experience or their senior year of high school, so now that they're in college and out from being in Mommy and Daddy's house 24/7, they're going to go even harder than they would've otherwise."
As mentioned below, so many young people these days think they are invincible, and just say to themselves "that'll never happen to me," or "I'm in great shape so I have nothing to worry about." I used to think that way too so its not just a millennial thing. Its an every generation thing when said generation was 18-24 years old.
Especially when you start introducing booze into the mix, the whole idea of social distancing and being smart about all of this will go completely out the window. From Ole Miss to Michigan.
Not really important as I agree with your overall statement, but students these days aren't millennials. Millennials are roughly 24-39 now.
I drove through Ann Arbor this weekend. I hate to inform you that I think you might be naive. There’s already parties going on pretty heavily.
In Washtenaw County, less than 1% of COVID hospital patients have been in the 18-24 age group. None from that age group have died. College students should take precaution when they interact with people from outside their own age group, but what they do when around people their own age honestly shouldn't be that huge of a concern.
It'll be interesting to see how the dining halls work. During lunchtime at South Quad, there's usually a shoulder-to-shoulder line all the way to the front door, and almost every table is usually full. For social distancing to work, they'll probably have to use some sort of carry-out system, or add tables outside the dining hall itself.
EDIT: apparently they're doing reservations for dine-in, which is certainly, uh, a plan.
Yes.