Hundreds of Georgia University Students Party Without Masks

[gam197]

Hundreds of Georgia university students are seen partying in the street | Daily Mail Online

This is the weekend before classes resume. It is not looking good for colleges and rates of infection rising.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

This is the weekend before classes resume. It is not looking good for colleges and rates of infection rising.

Welcome to Georgia, where mask mandates have largely been prohibited and the Govornor reopened bars in may.

 

[gam197]

gam197:

This is the weekend before classes resume. It is not looking good for colleges and rates of infection rising.

Welcome to Georgia, where mask mandates have largely been prohibited and the Govornor reopened bars in may.

We have many universities in Massachusetts that are slated to reopen so I don’t think it is just Georgia. Why should we expect college bound students to be responsible?

 

[ThinkingSapien]

Why should we expect college bound students to be responsible?

Why limit that question to college students? I expect lots of people to not be responsible.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

They have mask mandates in Pennsylvania where I work, for months now.
I work in a state college town.
The students almost never wear masks when out and about. It took months and a lot of enforcement to get them to wear masks into the stores that require everybody to have a mask on, such as the local convenience store chains.

Young people just figure they are indestructible and/or they are irresponsible and want to have fun.
It’s sad but that’s how it is.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

It took months and a lot of enforcement to get them to wear masks into the stores that require everybody to have a mask on, such as the local convenience store chains.

I see a lot of people wear mask into stores, but they keep the masks at their chin or have it positioned to not cover their nose. I need for people to understand that for their masks to work, they need to have them on over their breathing holes.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I see that a little, but most people under age 75 know it’s supposed to go over nose and mouth.

The college students aren’t wearing masks wrong. They just don’t wear them at all.

Kinda hard to wear a mask and chug down beers at the same time.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

They just don’t wear them at all.

Do you find yourself doing anything in response to this?

I have found myself becoming a bit more phobic in areas when I see unfiltered breathing occurring and place stores without mask rules lower on my list of places to consider to get goods.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I wear my own mask. I stay away from people who don’t. As you noted, there are also people older than college age who don’t want to wear masks or have some big political POV about it. Fortunately, in my areas they are relatively few.

A prayer group I used to attend regularly is back in action. I went a couple times but was bothered because most of the people there are over 65, they’re meeting in a small closed chapel where they pray out loud and sing, and most of them aren’t wearing masks, so even with social distancing it felt not quite right. I expressed that to the organizer, and I haven’t gone the last few weeks.

There is also an outdoor dining and shopping area that this town created by closing off some streets, which snarled traffic and is drawing a lot of people, many not in masks. I note that it is allowed for people to not wear masks while sitting and eating at tables and that all the tables are outdoors; still, we’re talking a lot of people in groups not wearing masks while they eat for an hour, and those who are just visiting the area to walk around, shop etc have to pass them. I, and a number of other people, decided to not go down there. Most of the restaurants will send takeout food to me if I really want to eat their food. The college students who left for the summer will be back in the next couple weeks, and I predict that area will get even more crowded than it already is.

I don’t mind going out, going to Mass (where everybody is required to wear a mask and social distance) or going to relatively uncrowded places, but I’m not going to do anything involving groups of unmasked folks until we get a vaccine.

 

[Sarcelle]

Why should we expect college bound students to be responsible?

Yet this is the same demographic that is expected to take on thousands of dollars in debt to finance their education.

Tons of debt plus a lack of responsibility is a dangerous combination.

 

[Sarcelle]

I think it is the idea that only old people could contract the disease and die from it.

We will have to wait and see in the fall and school reopens on how the infection rates trend.

I think due to people’s opposition to wearing masks and social distancing, infection rates are going to skyrocket especially during holiday season.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

There’s currently a brouhaha at my kiddo’s college because a bunch of students went off campus to party.
Of course, there was nary a mask to be found.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

Why should we expect college bound students to be responsible?

That’s a very interesting statement.
When my parents were in college in the early 60’s, they had single sex dorms with visiting hours and a House Mother because they weren’t quite seen as responsible to stay out of trouble.

At the same time, there were a lot of teen marriages, with kids setting up their own households. So they were also seen as old enough to take responsibilities.

So how did we jump from “college students need minding”, to “college students need minding, but we also won’t chaperone”?

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

I worked with nurses who were trained in the early 70’s who had to wear stocking, gloves and hat when they went off campus.

That was on the extreme end of the spectrum, but it was still happening.