This has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with control:
Vermont’s Middlebury College returned to virtual instruction for the rest of the fall semester due to over 30 new reported cases of COVID-19 on campus.
This means all final exams will be administered remotely.
The school sent out a campus-wide announcement the evening of December 9 noting the new cases bring Middlebury’s COVID total to 50. It said contact tracing has been initiated and that all further in-person events have been postponed.
The last update to the school’s COVID reporting dashboard showed 22 “active” cases, the most since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Middlebury Campus.
Note that the announcement indicates 99 percent of the campus has been fully vaccinated with “many already receiving booster doses” … and as such, “the risk of adverse health outcomes from the Delta variant is low.”
The school has about 2500 students. Less than 1% of the students (even less if you include the faculty and staff), and no one has died. This is insanity.
But...but... muh sciencetistry!
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