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As The Country Returns To Normal, College Campuses Double Down On
Covid-19 Restrictions
BY: JACK ELBAUM
MARCH 30, 2022
6 MIN READ
GWU
Why is George Washington University treating fully vaccinated and
boosted college-aged students as if we are the most vulnerable
population to Covid-19?
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If you happen to stumble onto the campus of George Washington University
in Washington, D.C., you will find that Covid-19 is a greater part of
our everyday lives than it is almost anywhere else in the country. The
only possible exceptions to this are other college campuses many of
which have remained equally as, or more, restrictive.
While many campuses are getting back to normal, there are more than a
few holdouts. At Connecticut College which went virtual last year amid >uber-restrictive Covid-19 policies students are not only required to
wear masks in all indoor settings, but also outside when they are >socializing in particularly close proximity to others. Even in their
own dorm, students must mask unless only with a roommate and the door is >closed. Places such as New York University still have full mask mandates
in place, while many others such as University of Illinois and
Michigan still require them in class, but have relaxed the mandate in
other situations.
GW, where I am a sophomore majoring in international affairs and
economics, has decided to keep a full mask mandate in effect until
further notice, and the university strongly recommends the use of N95
or KN95 masks. This means masks are required in every class, every dorm
hall (even in individual rooms when socializing with people one does not
live with), and every school building, with no exceptions. At the
beginning of the semester, the people in charge of my dorm building sent
an email warning students that a failure to wear a mask even if one
was eating or drinking would result in being reported to the school.
On top of this mask mandate, on-campus students are required to take
part in GWs asymptomatic surveillance testing program. In practice,
this means that they are required to take a Covid-19 test approximately
every week and a half, even if they are completely asymptomatic. If one >misses the deadline, his access to nearly every university building
(except for their dorm hall) is removed until he gets the test.
GWs Approach Is Illogical
These Covid-19 measures are in place despite a few important factors.
First, young people (i.e., the population of GW) are at, by far, the
lowest risk to become severely ill or die from Covid-19. Second, all
students at GW have been required to provide proof to the school that
they are vaccinated and boosted. If the near-100 percent natural
protection from being young was not enough, the fact that all students
are thrice-vaxxed surely means Covid-19 poses, in practical terms, no
threat to them.
Moreover, GW can no longer use DCs law nor the CDCs guidance to
justify their policy. After all, the mask mandate in DC is now gone and
the CDC only recommends masks in high-risk areas a classification
that does not apply to DC. In fact, DC falls into the low risk
category, which means that people should Wear a mask based on your
personal preference, informed by your personal level of risk. The last
time DC had a seven-day average of over 100 cases per day was back in >February, and GW has a positivity rate hovering around 1.0 percent.
So why is GW treating fully vaccinated and boosted college-aged students
in a city with minimal Covid-19 transmission as if we are the most >vulnerable population to Covid-19 when, in fact, we are the least
vulnerable?
GW Cant Justify Masking
On March 21, I emailed the university president, GWs dean of health
affairs, and GWs dean of students, asking why they thought GWs
restrictive Covid-19 measures remained necessary. I hoped to get insight
and clarity that the universitys previous public statements had not >provided.
As of today, I have received only one reply. The email came from a >representative of GWs Division for Student Affairs, and he declined to >answer my question. Instead, the representative directed me to GWs
Office of Media Relations. Upon further inquiry with the Office of Media >Relations, I was, first, directed to the universitys previous
statements and, second, informed that GW has not changed its Covid-19 >restrictions because of our
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Covid-19 Restrictions
BY: JACK ELBAUM
MARCH 30, 2022
6 MIN READ
GWU
Why is George Washington University treating fully vaccinated and
boosted college-aged students as if we are the most vulnerable
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If you happen to stumble onto the campus of George Washington University
in Washington, D.C., you will find that Covid-19 is a greater part of
our everyday lives than it is almost anywhere else in the country. The
only possible exceptions to this are other college campuses — many of
which have remained equally as, or more, restrictive.
While many campuses are getting back to normal, there are more than a
few holdouts. At Connecticut College — which went virtual last year amid >> uber-restrictive Covid-19 policies — students are not only required to
wear masks in all indoor settings, but also outside when they are
“socializing in particularly close proximity to others.” Even in their >> own dorm, students must mask unless only with a roommate and the door is
closed. Places such as New York University still have full mask mandates
in place, while many others — such as University of Illinois and
Michigan — still require them in class, but have relaxed the mandate in
other situations.
GW, where I am a sophomore majoring in international affairs and
economics, has decided to keep a full mask mandate in effect “until
further notice,” and the university “strongly recommends the use of N95 >> or KN95 masks.” This means masks are required in every class, every dorm >> hall (even in individual rooms when socializing with people one does not
live with), and every school building, with no exceptions. At the
beginning of the semester, the people in charge of my dorm building sent
an email warning students that a failure to wear a mask — even if one
was eating or drinking — would result in being reported to the school.
On top of this mask mandate, on-campus students are required to take
part in GW’s “asymptomatic surveillance testing” program. In practice, >> this means that they are required to take a Covid-19 test approximately
every week and a half, even if they are completely asymptomatic. If one
misses the deadline, his access to nearly every university building
(except for their dorm hall) is removed until he gets the test.
GW’s Approach Is Illogical
These Covid-19 measures are in place despite a few important factors.
First, young people (i.e., the population of GW) are at, by far, the
lowest risk to become severely ill or die from Covid-19. Second, all
students at GW have been required to provide proof to the school that
they are vaccinated and boosted. If the near-100 percent natural
protection from being young was not enough, the fact that all students
are thrice-vaxxed surely means Covid-19 poses, in practical terms, no
threat to them.
Moreover, GW can no longer use DC’s law — nor the CDC’s guidance — to
justify their policy. After all, the mask mandate in DC is now gone and
the CDC only recommends masks in “high-risk” areas — a classification >> that does not apply to DC. In fact, DC falls into the “low risk”
category, which means that people should “Wear a mask based on your
personal preference, informed by your personal level of risk.” The last
time DC had a seven-day average of over 100 cases per day was back in
February, and GW has a positivity rate hovering around 1.0 percent.
So why is GW treating fully vaccinated and boosted college-aged students
— in a city with minimal Covid-19 transmission — as if we are the most >> vulnerable population to Covid-19 when, in fact, we are the least
vulnerable?
GW Can’t Justify Masking
On March 21, I emailed the university president, GW’s dean of health
affairs, and GW’s dean of students, asking why they thought GW’s
restrictive Covid-19 measures remained necessary. I hoped to get insight
and clarity that the university’s previous public statements had not
provided.
As of today, I have received only one reply. The email came from a
representative of GW’s Division for Student Affairs, and he declined to
answer my question. Instead, the representative directed me to GW’s
Office of Media Relations. Upon further inquiry with the Office of Media
Relations, I was, first, directed to the university’s previous
statements and, second, informed that GW has not changed its Covid-19
restrictions because of “our
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
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As The Country Returns To Normal, College Campuses Double Down On
Covid-19 Restrictions
BY: JACK ELBAUM
MARCH 30, 2022
6 MIN READ
GWU
Why is George Washington University treating fully vaccinated and
boosted college-aged students as if we are the most vulnerable
population to Covid-19?
Author Jack Elbaum profile
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If you happen to stumble onto the campus of George Washington University >>> in Washington, D.C., you will find that Covid-19 is a greater part of
our everyday lives than it is almost anywhere else in the country. The
only possible exceptions to this are other college campuses many of
which have remained equally as, or more, restrictive.
While many campuses are getting back to normal, there are more than a
few holdouts. At Connecticut College which went virtual last year amid >>> uber-restrictive Covid-19 policies students are not only required to
wear masks in all indoor settings, but also outside when they are
socializing in particularly close proximity to others. Even in their
own dorm, students must mask unless only with a roommate and the door is >>> closed. Places such as New York University still have full mask mandates >>> in place, while many others such as University of Illinois and
Michigan still require them in class, but have relaxed the mandate in
other situations.
GW, where I am a sophomore majoring in international affairs and
economics, has decided to keep a full mask mandate in effect until
further notice, and the university strongly recommends the use of N95
or KN95 masks. This means masks are required in every class, every dorm >>> hall (even in individual rooms when socializing with people one does not >>> live with), and every school building, with no exceptions. At the
beginning of the semester, the people in charge of my dorm building sent >>> an email warning students that a failure to wear a mask even if one
was eating or drinking would result in being reported to the school.
On top of this mask mandate, on-campus students are required to take
part in GWs asymptomatic surveillance testing program. In practice,
this means that they are required to take a Covid-19 test approximately
every week and a half, even if they are completely asymptomatic. If one
misses the deadline, his access to nearly every university building
(except for their dorm hall) is removed until he gets the test.
GWs Approach Is Illogical
These Covid-19 measures are in place despite a few important factors.
First, young people (i.e., the population of GW) are at, by far, the
lowest risk to become severely ill or die from Covid-19. Second, all
students at GW have been required to provide proof to the school that
they are vaccinated and boosted. If the near-100 percent natural
protection from being young was not enough, the fact that all students
are thrice-vaxxed surely means Covid-19 poses, in practical terms, no
threat to them.
Moreover, GW can no longer use DCs law nor the CDCs guidance to
justify their policy. After all, the mask mandate in DC is now gone and
the CDC only recommends masks in high-risk areas a classification
that does not apply to DC. In fact, DC falls into the low risk
category, which means that people should Wear a mask based on your
personal preference, informed by your personal level of risk. The last
time DC had a seven-day average of over 100 cases per day was back in
February, and GW has a positivity rate hovering around 1.0 percent.
So why is GW treating fully vaccinated and boosted college-aged students >>> in a city with minimal Covid-19 transmission as if we are the most
vulnerable population to Covid-19 when, in fact, we are the least
vulnerable?
GW Cant Justify Masking
On March 21, I emailed the university president, GWs dean of health
affairs, and GWs dean of students, asking why they thought GWs
restrictive Covid-19 measures remained necessary. I hoped to get insight >>> and clarity that the universitys previous public statements had not
provided.
As of today, I have received only one reply. The email came from a
representative of GWs Division for Student Affairs, and he declined to
answer my question. Instead, the representative directed me to GWs
Office of Media Relations. Upon further inquiry with the Office of Media >>> Relations, I was, first, directed to the universitys previous
statements and, second, informed that GW has not changed its Covid-19
restrictions because of our
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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