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(05-17-2020 08:32 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(05-17-2020 07:50 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  College campuses, though young, are also disproportionately clustered. We have nearly 50,000 people roaming West campus in a given week. That's over 150,000 people per square mile. Then consider how many people are over on medical campus, not just at UC but at children's, the VA, Shriner's, etc. People who, again, are likely skewed young, but still have a high vulnerable at-risk population. Especially all the hospital patients with preexisting conditions.

I'm in favor of reopening. But it's foolish to think this will be simple.

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Yep, the state has seen that and is having each institution create 5 separate plans for reopening based on 5 scenarios that could be in place by August:

1) Conditions remain as they are now (worst case scenario)
2) 14 Consecutive Days of Statewide transmission decline
3) 14 Consecutive Days of both Statewide and Local transmission decline
4) 28 Consecutive Days of both Statewide and Local transmission decline
5) Pandemic is declared "over"

I could see us being somewhere between 2 and 3 by then, and most submissions I've seen from Universities within the state have 50/50 online vs. in person course offerings with most auxiliary services open (Rec Centers, Dining Halls, Residence Halls) with restrictions to concurrent use (limited students in residence halls, capacity limits in dining/rec, athletics resuming with limited capacities or no fans).

Well-reasoned and based on watching to see how this goes.
We will know more over the coming weeks as things reopen.

Everyone wants things back to normal but for now — things are not normal.
The virus did not miraculously go away with the lifting of restrictions.

I want a football season as much as anyone — whether we have one viewed in person or only on tv — however, I am not willing to take needless risk of spreading Covid19 to have a football season.
Football is not an essential activity.