Multiple Students Are Sick At Reopened Liberty Campus

[kpete]

Killing Your Studens To Own The Libs

Liberty officials accuse outsiders of playing politics. Within the school, there are signs of panic. “I’m not allowed to talk to you because I’m an employee here,” one student living on campus wrote in an email. But, he pleaded, “we need help to go home."

The New York Times reports:

Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise.

As of Friday, Liberty’s student health services Dr. Edward Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.

“Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law,” Mr. Falwell said in an interview on Sunday when confronted with the numbers. He added that any student returning now to campus would be required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

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[DBoon]

1. "referred to local hospital centers "

Prayer and laying of hands didn't work?

[DURHAM D]

4. Seems like they need to go down to the river. nt

[customerserviceguy]

82. Jerry Junior needs to go up the river

Maybe this massive experiment with live young people will show the fundies that Jaysus isn't going to "perteck" them from this virus.

[Newest Reality]

19. They don't take my suggestions!

Freshly slaughtered lamb's blood smeared on doors and such. It passes right over. Old formula I got from a book.

Oh, wait, now the students may be sheeple for attending a fake university, but they are not lambs. Just had to point that out.

[keithbvadu2]

92. Lambs to the slaughter.

[dem4decades]

24. Selfish fucks, putting everyone in danger for their religious bullshit.

[rainbow4321]

46. There are only 2 hospitals in Lynchburg

Both owned by Centra, neither are gonna be able to handle the onslaught.

I used to work at one very briefly. Til my license was gonna be on the line because of patient care mismanagement that was expected.
Most all frontline workers are very new grads, the seasoned ones are travel healthcare workers who jump ship as quickly as possible once they, too, see how the system is ran. Average patient ratio on the medicine floors are 1 nurse to 7-8 patients. Most staff left when that ratio was bumped up to 7 patients.
Looks like I got outta town just in time. Locals are gonna be pissed at LU leaders...there is/was already a strained relationship between towns people and the university.

[exboyfil]

54. Socialize the risk and consequences once again

Then beat up the system when it can't cope.

[paleotn]

71. Never does....

..oh, and what's the definition of insanity?

[malaise]

2. Looks like Jebus may save

the rest of us - is the pool guy sick?

[leftieNanner]

15. LOL

Love you malaise!!!

I needed that laugh.

[malaise]

16. Back at yah - we all need a laugh

[panader0]

33. Eat a tamale--

dinner and a wipe!

[malaise]

40. Just ate jerk chicken and rice and peas

[DURHAM D]

3. What? Can't he just pray it away? nt

[Zorro]

27. Must not be praying hard enough

Either that, or the students are closet heathens sent by Satan to make Falwell's decision look stupid.

[mr_lebowski]

5. You say this like it's a ... bad thing? nt

[cwydro]

17. Not going to wish this virus on anyone.

With one large orange exception.

[mr_lebowski]

31. You're way nicer than me cwydro ...

I'll go ahead and NOT lament it when it inflicts the wantonly stupid.

These students could've been like 'uh ... no'.

Not like they didn't have the information at hand to make a properly informed decision.

[cwydro]

39. Well, gotta agree that's a fair point.

But not sure when I was that age and eager to get back to school.

You have to think their damn parents would have better sense, but then...oh never mind. Just realized how stupid that sounded!

[BadgerMom]

49. I was about to comment "thoughts & prayers,"

but I didn’t want to seem too callous. I really do feel for those students. They’re just coming into their own and figuring out their values and beliefs. That’s what actual universities help with. The owners/administrators political leaders, though? That’s another story.

[mr_lebowski]

57. I hear ya ... but maybe a small-scale cautionary tale about the dangers of magical thinking ...

i.e. Jeebus will save us from the virus ... will have an overall positive effect, at least if enough people hear about it.

[BadgerMom]

73. Oh, yeah. Not judging at all.

I stopped myself, but kinda hoped my DU brethren would step to the plate. 😉

[drray23]

6. They should make that asshole pay all medical bills.

[Grokenstein]

52. And funerals.

There'll be those, too.

...Wait, did that student call himself an employee??

[rurallib]

53. yes indeed - and there should be some kind of lawsuit

by students as a class and by the city.

[Faux pas]

7. They

must all be gay

[leftieNanner]

25. Or adulterers

and fornicators!

Can't be for lying, because Junior does that all the time.

[hatrack]

8. Squats and Bares!

[rainin]

9. Class action lawsuit?

[msongs]

10. perhaps an on-campus lockdown/quarantine is appropriate at this time nt

[SheltieLover]

11. Fkn idiots!

[underpants]

12. "Required by law"? Liberty is not an essential business

Per the Governor's Executive Order 53.

[exboyfil]

59. But it gets to wave the Jesus card

As I was commenting to my wife this morning regarding continuing church services, current judicial thought seems to indicate you have a religious exemption to pretty much anything.

[getagrip_already]

13. now thats funny - students in dorms self isolating.....

Ahah, just like they did at spring break.

[hlthe2b]

14. gee, whoda thunk?

Charlatan sickens his own meal ticket...

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Must be God's will.

[smirkymonkey]

20. What a shock.

Nice going you idiotic religious fuckwit!

[Lochloosa]

21. Gotta keep the money flowing.

[underpants]

26. They don't even need the campus anymore

They are just printing money with on line courses.

[CatMor]

22. If parents were involved with students that went back ..

there is something wrong with their thinking. I can't imagine you would want any of your kids in that environment now

[customerserviceguy]

83. Maybe

fundie parents worried about their kids getting sick and transmitting the virus to the grandparents will be what it takes to break them from their blind trust of charlatans.

[CatMor]

97. It sure could be a possibility ....

yet they seem to think they can pray it away.

[underpants]

23. More results from the hospital

[redwitch]

28. Those poor kids!

Why would any parent send their child there? Even without the virus?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. The local papers have nada.

https://www.newsadvance.com/

https://www.roanoke.com/

https://www.richmond.com/

[d_r]

98. Lynchburg locals

weren't happy before the sick news-
https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2020/03/24/reckless-decision-to-bring-students-back-on-campus-says-lynchburg-mayor-about-liberty-university/

[Botany]

30. God Damn you are the school's Dr. and it would be presumptuous to offer a medical opinion?

Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr., “I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, ‘This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn’t do,’”


LYNCHBURG, Va. — As Liberty University’s spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Liberty’s student health service about the rampaging coronavirus.

“We’ve lost the ability to corral this thing,” Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge him to close the school. “I just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, ‘This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn’t do,’” Dr. Eppes said in an interview.

So Mr. Falwell — a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world — reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm, epidemiologically and otherwise. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. Another eight were told to self-isolate.

[demtenjeep]

37. what is their enrollment?

how many did not show back up?

[demtenjeep]

32. aw

I don't know who is worse=

Falwell for opening
students for going
parents for sending them there in the first place

[sop]

34. God answered our prayers. He sent scientists like Fauci to warn us. Most people listened.

Only ungodly hucksters and charlatans like Falwell, Graham and Trump failed to heed God's warning.

[mr_lebowski]

35. That's what Liberty University looks like? Shoot, now my image of the place is ruined forever ...

It was something more like this ...

[Thomas Hurt]

36. Luke 4:12 12 Jesus answered, "It is said: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test

After the Devil asked Jesus to leap from the temple. Cuz it would be okay, God and the angels would save him surely.

By his own theology and the Bible, the fool is testing God with the lives of others to suit the ideological whims that amoral pig in the White House.

I bet Falwell isn't hanging out in the dorms and student center either.

[Blecht]

38. Murderer

If any of these young people or their relatives die, Falwell needs to be charged with murder.

[delisen]

41. The vicious fallout of perverted organized religion. Can't blame the students

Falwell deliberately put the students and town of Lynchburg at risk for his own purposes.

Hope their parents can get their children out.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

42. Had they all just returned from partying on DeSantis' Florida beaches....

with a special gift from the Sunshine State?.......


KY.............

[DENVERPOPS]

43. Like this is some kind

of fucking surprise that should shock us???????

[TeamPooka]

44. This was not "god's will" it was a man's stupidity. Falwell specifically.

[treestar]

45. They won the stupid prize

They may not believe in Darwin's Theory, but it is going to bite them in the ass.

[yellowdogintexas]

65. I'd include the parents of these kids in the stupid prize nt

[Alwaysna]

102. There is so much competition for the stupid prize. Hard to pick a winner.

[bronxiteforever]

47. Kick and recommend for visibility. Horrifying

[LiberalFighter]

48. At the right time they need to burn Liberty down.

[BigDemVoter]

50. That's actually good news. Maybe they will fucking close it now.

[NotHardly]

51. Their parents are the same people who would sue a Dr or Nurse who told them to send their kids

into the breech of a pandemic, told them not to worry about contagion, or otherwise encouraged dangerous behavior. They'll listen to this freak of a man and Trump (other freak) and praise them. Let's see how they act when their children are on ventilators.

I feel sorry for the children and sorrier for the medical personnel who have to treat them because of the President's gross negligence and that of Jr. Fawell.

[Ferrets are Cool]

69. In a heartbeat. nt

[japple]

55. That picture of Junior Falwell looks just like Tucker Carlson with a beard.

Sorry for the digression on the discussion, but it hit me when I saw the picture.

[dewsgirl]

58. You mean the dumbfounded look.

[japple]

62. Eyes too close together.

eom

[Squinch]

56. The self-culling works, apparently.

These are college students. Presumably most of them have parents.

All those people had to decide they were above listening to science in order for this to happen.

Actions have consequences.

I have no sympathy.

[CanonRay]

60. Criminally negligent homicide

if any of them die. He can minister to his fellow inmates.

[2naSalit]

61. Too late to go home sprotsfans...

Stay the fuck where you are and don't leave until you test negative and then quarantine for two weeks, maybe three.

Fuck you fuckers, better start praying.

[Takket]

63. liberty U is plague on the nation even without the virus.........

it should be shut down and the buildings leveled by the military.

The residents of Lynchburg should sue it out of existance for creating a public health crisis.

[AdamGG]

64. Jesus knows they're sinful and has rejected them

Ask Jerry or Pat Robertson.

[Kablooie]

66. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Or not

[SunSeeker]

67. And they already spread it to their classmates, who will spread it to their fmilies and communities.

[Takket]

68. words from a liberty parent.......

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Gotta love a guy that willingly and knowingly signs their kids up for a corrupt gop money laundering and brainwashing school and then gets mad when the school engages in corrupt gop money laundering and brainwashing activities

[Ferrets are Cool]

70. What you said. nt

[scrabblequeen40]

72. But it's a hoax! And anyway, Jeezus saves!

Experts say this is foreign disease and a liberal disease. It does not hurt Americans! Or God-fearing conversatives!!!!!!

[Warpy]

74. There will be lawsuits

and Falwell, Jr, will find his daddy's fortune much depleted.

I just feel so sorry for the kids. Religion might be comforting, but it always lets you down when you need it on the practical side of things.

[Demovictory9]

75. kick

[Eliot Rosewater]

76. Premeditated voluntary manslaughter

I dont think that is the term, I think it is just voluntary manslaughter, but it surely is that and will be when some die.

[totodeinhere]

77. Some religious fanatics are actually welcoming this.

They say it's a fulfillment of biblical prophesy. We also hear that same line from some Islamic clerics in Iran.

[Hoyt]

78. I cannot imagine the kind of losers that aspire to graduating from Liberty University.

[Demovictory9]

79. Falwell says story is false

https://wset.com/news/coronavirus/its-false-liberty-university-asks-new-york-times-to-correct-coronavirus-story?fbclid=IwAR0wZiEs-tV05uYm0ifnggGMyA31Zws8DAjbut0_4ure5Cn_Zr_Hbu0uQ-Q

[Traildogbob]

80. Well then

Did not know gays went to liberty. God’s wrath as stated by the White House prayer preacher. Musta been the threesome with the pool stud and Jr.

[klook]

81. Fucking asshole Falwell

— an unworthy successor to his malevolent father. I wish there was a hell so fuckheads like him would burn for all eternity.

[MarianJack]

84. Wow!

they got sick from the Democratic hoax that we designed to make Dolt45 look bad? Go figure.

RESIST

[kimbutgar]

85. He should be prosecuted for murder if students die to his negligence.

[SayItLoud]

86. When JR gets it...and the pool boy and wifey....then it will NOT

be God's. tRUMPs got something on him for sure.

[47of74]

87. Gee who the fuck could've seen that coming? Oh yeah half the fucking planet.

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[Javaman]

88. Should be brought up on charges of criminal negligence nt

[AC_Mem]

89. I hope they are ready

for the lawsuits. Because the minute one of those students is on a vent, or worse, dies - the floodgates will open. This really is pre-meditated murder. He is well aware of the statistics and the risk, and he chooses to put an entire student body at mortal risk.

What a DISGUSTING piece of human excrement.

annette

[FailureToCommunicate]

90. Hello Darwin Awards? Yes, we have a few new nominations...

[IronLionZion]

91. Damn, that liberal media goes hardcore on their hoaxes

This is taking crisis acting to unprecedented levels

Thoughts and prayers

[Gothmog]

93. Parents are stupid to send their kids to this pretend school

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[Hekate]

103. Well, yeah, if what you want is an intellectual education. OTOH, if you want to enter the pipeline

...for elite jobs in the Evangelical Movement, including all the entry level political appointments (such as being a Congressional page or intern) available -- well, Liberty University and a couple of others are exactly where you want to send your kids.

You just don't expect them to die for it.

[keithbvadu2]

94. How much does the student health insurance cover?

How much does the student health insurance cover?

[safeinOhio]

95. Liberty University Flames the sports teams.

Ranked, just rank.

[budkin]

96. Bwahahahahaha

Bwahahahahaa

[JDC]

99. That Fuck needs to be jailed.

[Hekate]

100. I feel sorry for those youngsters. They've been brainwashed, & now...

I hope this bankrupts Falwell & his "college."

[crickets]

101. Agreed. The school and their parents have let them down. nt

[Blue Owl]

104. The school's new motto is...

"Give me liberty, give me death"

[pstokely]

105. what's the point in coming back if classes have moved online?

other than to get their things out of the dorms

[mahatmakanejeeves]

106. They're probably connected to an intranet.

They might not be able to access it from home if they're not using some sort of enabled computer.

I'm not an expert.

[DFW]

107. I hope the Attorney General of Virginia is keeping a close eye on this.

At the first confirmation that a student on the LU campus has tested positive for COVID-19, whether infected there, or brought the infection in from the outside, Falwell needs to be arrested for criminal reckless endangerment. At the first fatality, he needs to be arrested for negligent homicide, and held without bail, as he obviously presents a mortal a danger to his community, and has no intention of ceasing to be one.

[Brainfodder]

108. In a report we all could have written ahead of time.....

DUH!

[spanone]

109. Sue the shit out of mr. fallwell