Why would Stanford ever say that they're definitely going to have classes return?
What if there was a new strain that was 1,000x worse in the last week?
Colleges should be the last thing to open back up. At least with local elementary and high schools, illness is more traceable and more confined to the community.
With colleges, you're telling students "okay, go around the world and come back. And then, go back around the world once we're done with you."
I can't think of another institutional structure as populated as colleges (maybe airports?) that guarantees international transmittion
What if there was a new strain that was 1,000x worse in the last week?
Colleges should be the last thing to open back up. At least with local elementary and high schools, illness is more traceable and more confined to the community.
With colleges, you're telling students "okay, go around the world and come back. And then, go back around the world once we're done with you."
I can't think of another institutional structure as populated as colleges (maybe airports?) that guarantees international transmittion