Originally Posted by
Stgermainparis
I’m really thinking that universities, particularly ones with high residential living and communal eating facilities, need to move to a remote learning model. Spring breaks will mean a lot of travel for students and a lot of exposure to a lot of people and places. Returning to dorm life with all that exposure seems very risky.
Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN is considering this issue since it's a large campus with more than 90% of students on campus (I had to get special permission to live off campus):
https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...rs/5011762002/
Originally Posted by
Temedar
1) Knowingly infecting someone with AIDS is a felony in certain jurisdictions and people occasionally do go to jail for it
2) Saying that "AIDS is a death sentence" is simply wrong, especially when we're discussing a virus that kills 1-2% of those infected with it in a month
I was unaware of #1 . So there is some case law on the subject--interesting.
For #2 , I would consider AIDS much more of a 'killer' than the current pandemic since the odds are about 100% that AIDS would reduce your life expectancy.
So I'm currently in Alabama with my father. The surrounding states of Georgia and Tennessee seem to have infections in two major metros--Nashville and Atlanta. My thinking is that since these are also the biggest airports in each state, that these cases may have either arrived by air or by some other transport to these metros.
Alabama has 2 major Interstates that directly link with both cities, so if by car, I would expect a case in North Alabama or Central Alabama in the next 3-5 days. If by air, the larger airports are in the central part of the state so the likelihood would be there first.
Now, here's the interesting part. There are many people that literally live in the country where even the nearest walmart would be a 30 minute drive and the nearest neighbor would be over a mile away. Hypothetically, what would their odds be on
never getting the virus if they
never left their property? (self-quarantined indefinitely)