Sad OK U student paper OP-Ed: Our view: 'What are we going to do when people start dying?'

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The OU Daily Editorial Board
Updated Aug 24, 2020

“What are we going to do when people start dying?”

That’s the question our editorial board has been confronting over the past few days. If we’re going to write obituaries — if so for whom, and when will we write them. It’s not if people start dying — it’s when.

One case of COVID-19 has already been confirmed in the residential halls, where students were tested prior to move-in and 62 were confirmed as positives. When classes moved online March 18, there were just four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Cleveland County and 29 across the state.

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In the past few weeks, the university has put out messaging welcoming students back to campus and explaining the protocols that have been put in place. Many of these went out the window at one of the first university-held events — the Class of 2024 Welcome. Students gathered en masse to attend this event, and although protocols were observed during the welcome itself, groups were clearly observed not social distancing on their way into the stadium.

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We wanted to come back. But not like this. And it’s just going to get worse — in fact, it probably already has.

http://www.oudaily.com/coronavirus/our-view-what-are-we-going-to-do-when-people-start-dying/article_aab92268-e61b-11ea-9973-ebec7f93e290.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. If I had a child in college (I did have 2 a decade ago) ...I would tell them - take the year off

and engage with the political/socialogical fight that is happening today. Trump stole your year to be in college.

[dhol82]

2. Might want to start reminding all these kids of the polio epidemic.

and its consequences.
Only 2% got really ill, but the consequences were major.

[Turbineguy]

3. Study mortuary science.