Returning to in-person classes at Georgia colleges & universities

[RamblingRose]

The University System of Georgia dictates the policies for all public colleges & universities in the state. They are standing by their plan to resume in-person classes in the fall.

To keep students safe, the University of Georgia sent students 2 masks & a thermometer.

Next Saturday is August 1st and many students will be moving into their apartments waiting for classes to start on August 20th.

This comes as Georgia COVID cases continue to rise and the state is in the top 4 of the number of daily new cases.

I see one Big clusterf&%# coming!

https://www.usg.edu/coronavirus/

[underpants]

1. (Hands them a ziplock with 2 masks and a thermometer) Here, good luck

Where are the finding thermometers?!?!

[RamblingRose]

2. AND Kemp is suing the cities for issuing mask mandates

[CottonBear]

5. He's only sued Atlanta at this time. N/T

[Chainfire]

3. The packet comes with funeral home advertisements and discount coupons.

[CottonBear]

4. College students, partying & going to bars, are driving up infection rates in Athens, GA.

COVID19s going to explode when they start moving back to town over the next month.

UGA, Athens Technical College, and Piedmont College are all located in Athens. University of North Georgia has a campus in neighboring Oconee County.

UGA went all online during Spring Break, which started the first week in March 2020. Most of the 35,000 students didn’t come back to town. They’ve slowly returned since the state eased restrictions on businesses.

Athens-Clarke County went on lockdown about March 19, 2020. However, rates are now rising. At least Kemp hasn’t yet sued A-CC over its mask mandate.

It’s going to be really bad. Thankfully, our public school district has decided to hold all classes online.

The school district is buying laptops and iPads for grade K-2 kids, who had not previously been issued digital devices. All grade 3-5 kids have school issued devices. They’re going to set up WiFi hotspots in those areas without broadband internet service. Spectrum had been providing free or low-cost internet service to families with public school children during the last part of the past school year, which was totally online.

[Runningdawg]

6. We are waiting for the other shoe to drop

Hubby works at a big university, he was furloughed 4-1 and only recently returned to work. First we faced the nightmare of him being labeled a fraud and blocked from reporting or getting any further assistance to clear up the mistake by the OK employment commission. He only got his money 10 days ago after going to event to fix problems like his - 2 typos that took, literally 5 minutes to fix left us hanging for 14 weeks.
Now the rumor is the semester will end before Thanksgiving. We expect him to be furloughed again, until classes resume in the spring. A very large portion of the student body are Asian and there are many other foreign students as well. The university does not expect at least 50% of them to return. We are worried the next time he will be laid off indefinitely instead of furloughed.

[RamblingRose]

7. I see all these kids being exposed to COVID, then returning home to their families to quarantine,

exposing the whole family to COVID

and they expose their contacts, and so on, and so on...

My husband says they want the students to return to campus just long enough to collect the 'campus fees'