Posted on 12/10/2021 9:41:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A liberal arts college in Vermont announced on Thursday that it will be switching to virtual learning after the school learned of several dozen confirmed COVID-19 cases on campus.
Officials from Middlebury College said in a letter posted Thursday that they had learned of 34 confirmed COVID-19 cases early that morning. They said that a total of 49 students had confirmed COVID-19 cases in addition to one confirmed case among employees.
As a result, classes will be remote for the remainder of the semester, and final exams will also be administered remotely. Students were also urged to leave campus if possible, though officials noted that exemptions would be made for those who had previously been approved to stay on campus over break or had to stick to travel plans.
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“What this must do to the students mental health.”
It’s Middlebury, a hippie-dippy rich-liberal school. The mental health level there was likely already poor.
Middlebury has become snowflake central.
How can you get STD’s online?!...
I went to college to get alcohol poisoning, get in fights, and have pregnancy scares with women.
I wonder how they will handle their music and art teaching?
The news comes despite the fact that the school noted that nearly 100 percent of its students were fully vaccinated. However, Vermont has been seeing a higher number of COVID-19 cases in recent days.
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Despite? Slow learners. The vaxx is not working. It sort of worked on the original strain, less so on Delta. Now not so much. The saving grace is Omicron is a head cold, not the plague.
Imagine paying $50,000/year to a university to screw with the select few and getting screwed by the university.
How’s your HVAC Middlebury ?
For Middlebury, it’s probably $75K per year.
The vaccines were designed to work on the original strain, two years ago.
Unfortunately, the vaccine makers and the FDA really have no incentive to update the vaccines.
Perhaps FDA vaccine approvals should only be legally valid for 400 days so the vaccines get updated.
“For the 2021–2022 academic year, the tuition and fees are as follows:
Tuition: $59,330 ($29,665 per semester)
Room and Board: $17,050 ($8,525 per semester)
Student Activity Fee: $440 ($220 per semester)”
I paid $3300 in tuition and about $800 each for room and food in 1975-1976 academic year to go to college. I calculated it cost about $6/hour to sit in class while the minimum wage was I think $2.30/hour.
From google:
The median family income of a student from Middlebury is $244,300, and 76% come from the top 20 percent. Jan 18, 2017
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https://www.nytimes.com › projects › middlebury-college
As Jack Webb said, “the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” so I will not name the university I attended.
Tuition annually - $1,200
Board - lived at home
Fees - can’t remember
Books - $150.
Now
Tuition - 52,070
Room & Board - $6,110
Fees - $1,200
Strange my tuition now equals today fees.
So Middlebury is not the only expensive school out there.
Be a truck driver and have no sturdent debt.
And VT is one of the most vaxxed states around.
They are stinking terrified of the virus over there.
You’d think it was Black Death the way they are reacting.
They are stinking terrified of the virus over there.
You’d think it was Black Death the way they are reacting.
In August 2020, at which point no one in the state of Vermont had yet been vaccinated, the state incurred 0 COVID deaths. In September 2020? Again, 0 COVID deaths. In October 2020? Once again, 0 COVID deaths. In November 2020? A total of 16 COVID deaths for the month.
If the CDC is to be believed, 83.1% of the population of the state of Vermont age 12 and above has now been "fully vaccinated." Of that portion of the population age 65 and older, the figure is 95%. So far, 68.3% of the Vermont population age 65 and older has received the so-called "booster."
And the most recent figures for COVID deaths in Vermont? In August 2021, the state incurred 17 COVID deaths. In September 2021, there were 44 COVID deaths. In October 2021, there were 41 such deaths. For November 2021, the number reported is 35 COVID deaths.
The comparable totals, for the four months? In (pre-vax) 2020, the state incurred a total of 16 COVID deaths. For those same four months this year, the total was 137 COVID deaths, an increase of some 756%. Given this, it's not clear how the state's high vaccination rate has helped the situation all that much. To say the least.
Cross state rivals when I went to college.
Never thought that highly of them. Decent hockey team. But the long haired kids in the stands couldn’t take a punch.
$50k for Middlebury? That’s probably just tuition. I would guess the full cost there is approaching $75-$80k.
Pesky facts.
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