This position argues colleges should hold the Fall 2020 semester online rather than reopen campuses. It holds that in-person classes risk outbreaks, that students congregating will spread infection, and that planning ahead is impossible amid such uncertainty.
Supporting arguments · 4
- On campus and in-person classes will only lead to outbreaksThe social nature of college life and classroom experience will make it almost impossible to effectively prevent the spread of the virus
- It's impossible to plan ahead in such uncertain timesThe Covid-19 pandemic changes on a daily basis, with new outbreaks popping up periodically across the world. Colleges have the impossible task of developing long term plans which will accommodate students, faculty, and staff through the various changes to the status quo.
- Reopening college campuses is too dangerousRepopulating college campuses threatens the lives of the faculty, staff, and surrounding communities. While most college students are healthy 18-22-year-olds, the other people involved in the campus operation are not, and neither are those living in the surrounding communities who will suffer alongside the colleges if an outbreak occurs.
- Students will congregate and spread diseaseIn addition to academics, students come to school for the social experience. Most of these experiences (parties, games, relationships) will spread the disease and put others at risk.