Liberty University announces quarantine amid COVID-19 spike

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Liberty University announced a temporary campus-wide quarantine Thursday amid a spike in COVID-19 cases. The quarantine is set to begin Monday and last until Sept. 10, news outlets report. The university has about 15,000 students and 5,000 faculty or staff on campus

There were 159 known active cases among students, faculty and staff as of Wednesday, according to the university’s online COVID-19 dashboard. Of those cases, 124 cases were among students. It is a sharp increase from last week when 40 students and staff tested positive as students were welcomed back to campus. It also surpasses the highest confirmed active caseload last September, when at least 141 people on campus tested positive and nearly 1,200 people were quarantined.

As the university began its fall semester this week, the university, which doesn’t require vaccination, lifted building capacity restrictions and distancing and masking requirements. The university changed its protocol late Thursday to enact the campus-wide quarantine, moving classes online and suspending large indoor gatherings.

Outdoor events will continue as scheduled and worship services will move to the stadium. The university will encourage masking and social distancing and host vaccine clinics on campus, but it didn’t indicate it would mandate those measures.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-a62698ebad644853caaff077fd578cf5

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Hard heads make soft behinds. How many times are they going to go through the "stubborn as a goat" behavior.

[Ray Bruns]

1. I never got as sick as I did when I attended college

There was always some jackass coughing his lungs out who would eventually find the seat behind me.

[Slammer]

2. breaking news

I've lost count of the number of times I've had relatives tell me or my wife that "there's no COVID in my county" (in a county with a large university) or "there's no newspaper reports of COVID near here. And that in states where COVID according to the national news was at the time running rampant.

I've taken to doing stuff like going to the university website which listed the hundreds last fall who'd come down with COVID on campus. And looking to see if the state's health department website had a per county breakdown of new cases.

People aren't aware unless they want to find the information and know how to find it.

There's a shocking number of people who can't use a search engine to find information on the internet (still, in this day and age).

And an even more shocking number of people who can't figure out where to get real news.

[intheflow]

16. Worse, they find information that's wrong.

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And then believe it because it because it's wrapped up in political crap that has absolutely nothing to do with public health, except that public health suffers when they google and find wrong information...

[Evolve Dammit]

3. They're not praying hard enough.. Falwell's school right?

[durablend]

4. Nah, they sinned and God's not listening

[EarnestPutz]

5. We can be thankful that Jerry Falwell is dead and gone, if only because we don't have to.....

.....listen to whatever bullshit he would have to say about Covid-19.

[Judi Lynn]

17. He used to blame disasters on non-Republicans, remember? From the Guardian/NY Times:

Falwell: blame abortionists, feminists and gays
Commentary and reports from America's leading newspaper


Laurie Goodstein, New York Times

Wed 19 Sep 2001 11.31 EDT

The Rev Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson set off a minor explosion of their own when they asserted on US television that an angry God had allowed the terrorists to succeed in their deadly mission because the United States had become a nation of abortion, homosexuality, secular schools and courts, and the American civil liberties union.

Liberal groups and commentators denounced their remarks yesterday, as did President Bush, who has long enjoyed the political support of the two evangelists.

"The president believes that terrorists are responsible for these acts," said a White House spokesman, Ken Lisaius. "He does not share those views, and believes that those remarks are inappropriate."

. . .

A few moments later Mr Falwell said: "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularise America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.' "

To which Mr Robertson said: "I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government."

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/19/september11.usa9

[bucolic_frolic]

6. No Quarantini!! Freedumb!!

'Jesus is my Savior, Darwin is the bus driver! Outta my way!'

[bottomofthehill]

7. And they are waiting for Monday.

Let it rip through the weekend.

[llmart]

8. I think it's all part of God's plan.

Isn't that what they use as an excuse for everything?

[Slammer]

10. Satan

I don't think they give Satan enough credit: if God has plans, obviously Satan does as well....

[packman]

9. Liberty University?- Isn't that where they churn out RW evangelists?

Jerry Falwell was the founder, I believe. A plague on that school.

[Salviati]

11. I'm glad the university where I teach is mandating both vaccinations and masks...

I really hope we don't have to go back online, but if we have to, we made due all last year...

[Comfortably_Numb]

13. Jesus take the wheel. The morons driving that shitshow clearly can't take care of business.

[Mr. Ected]

14. I think they believe that as long as 85% of them pray against the virus

They'll develop herd immunity.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. If their brains were actually quarantined, how would they know? /nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. No! Don't quarantine!! Losing 15,000 people who think Libertyeducation would be a net benefit

to the world.

[LiberalFighter]

19. Well if they quarantine the university with their infected people...

that works. I'm sure that will work out well.

[LiberalFighter]

20. Maybe they should move their university to Louisiana.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Student To Staff Ratio Is 3???

Where I did my undergrad studies, the ratio is 9.4 to 1. It's also a private university.
Liberty seems bloated.
As to the main point, I'm unsurprised.
My school has a "no vax, no in-person" policy. With zero exceptions.
I'm guessing Liberty has no such policy. Or, it's just words on a piece of paper if they do.