Every college kid should just take a leave of absence and do something meaningful like learn to fly or weld or go fight forest fires or something. Sail around the world. There are already about a million great online classes. I think MIT and maybe Stanford put all their courses online already for anyo e who wants to take them.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 1:52 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I’m wondering how the many lawsuits that are ruminating out there over > tuition refunds because you didn’t attend on campus classes are going to be > filed (or have been filed?) > > -D > > > On Sep 15, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > > > Maybe the children stay on campus, maybe not. > > > > My youngest chose to gap year because his college had a come to campus > but only offers online classes, then ship the kids home at mid-term to > continue online learning over the Thanksgiving to New Year holidays. > Sounded like a great way to load up on plague then ship it out to family > gatherings. Not worth the $55k for poor quality education and the hassles > of travel, then infecting parents and grandparents. IT would be fun to > track the mutations being developed by region and how they spread and > interact going into 2021. > > > > > > clay > > > > “I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our > history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stop this > general bout of self-recrimination and wetness.” > > > > B. Johnson > > 01/09/2020 > > > >> On Sep 15, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >> They will probably make one available, but with no long term data for > >> either efficacy or safety. So you might take all the risk and get covid > a > >> few months later, or a vaccine side effect. It will be another option > that > >> people will not know how to think properly about for awhile until some > >> outcomes are available in a few years. Probably a lot of higher risk > folks > >> would take it even if it only offered 4 months of protection, kinda like > >> the flu vaccine. But young, low risk people are going to opt out > mostly. I > >> have two relatives in college right now. Both have it. Colleges are like > >> little covid sanatoriums at the moment; kids will just stay there while > >> sick to avoid infecting their families. > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
