White House Said to Keep Sick Kids on Campus. Emails Reveal the Messy Reality.

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While COVID-racked Alabama showed signs of bending, other hot-zone colleges were stubbornly plowing ahead.

Larrison Campbell
Published Sep. 07, 2020

Last Monday, top officials on the White House coronavirus task force issued an urgent warning to governors across the country: Stop sending your COVID-infected college students home to their parents or risk another nationwide surge, just like the one that overwhelmed the South this summer.

So far, the task force’s request for governors to talk to their college presidents appears to have made little difference. By the end of the week, some colleges in the country’s biggest coronavirus hot spots not only were still allowing students to go home after they’d been exposed or infected—they were ordering them to.

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“The original sin was inviting the students back to campus,” said Michael Innis-Jimenez, a professor of American studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where more than 2,000 students tested positive for the coronavirus in the last three weeks. “And now it’s going to be very problematic to get them home. I think they finally saw that at the White House.”

Still, the White House response to the virus has been anything but consistent. Last Sunday, the White House coronavirus task force urged Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to issue a statewide mask mandate, noting the state now had the highest number of new infections in the country. The governor publicly disagreed with the proposal. Four days later, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams sided with Reynolds, telling a local news station, “If you try to force people to do something… they will resist you.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-said-to-keep-sick-kids-on-campus-emails-reveal-the-messy-reality

[Delphinus]

1. This makes no sense:

“If you try to force people to do something… they will resist you.”

What about traffic laws? Or wearing shirts & shoes in a restaurant? Seat belts? Car insurance, etal.?

[Sherman A1]

2. There are no good answers in this horrible situation

aided and abetted by the incompetence that is Donald Trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Confirming the GOP is still the "stupid party"

[gulliver]

4. The messy reality is Trump's fault. Things would be running smoothly but for him.