Liberty students to return to campus

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LeafByNiggle said:
My understanding, then, is that we have been advised to avoid infection and transmission as much as practical , and that there is no such thing as “not enough transmission”, or “flattening the curve too much”.
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The sense, to date, is that this is a “novel” virus, hence no one was immune. The pandemic threat will be over, when we reach a level of herd immunity, through infection and/or vaccine. We flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming the health care system - so that people do not needlessly die - and but time toward a vaccine. The trade-off in the question of how flat, is to avoid unnecessary economic dislocation. Navigating between the perils of needless death and economic collapse will involve some subtlety. I hope that we are up to it.
 
Theo520 said:
Liberty isn’t putting the kids together in classes. The students paid for dorms and food, which the school seems to be enabling in a responsible manner to the minority of students who are living on campus. They are following State and Federal guidance.
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If this is true, then Liberty really is being condemned because it’s a conservative Christian organization.
 
Ridgerunner said:
If this is true, then Liberty really is being condemned because it’s a conservative Christian organization.
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From the msn article linked above.
We think it’s irresponsible for so many universities to just say ‘closed, you can’t come back,’ push the problem off on other communities and sit there in their ivory towers,” Mr. Falwell said on Wednesday on a radio show hosted by a far-right conspiracy theorist, Todd Starnes.

“We’re conservative, we’re Christian, and therefore we’re being attacked,” he said.

Michael Gillette, a former mayor of Lynchburg and a bioethicist now working with its hospitals on rationing scarce ventilators, disagrees.

“To argue that criticism of Liberty is based on political bias is unfounded and unreasonable,” he said. “Liberty just did not take this threat as seriously as others have.”
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IT would be informative to compare just what Liberty has or has not done that differentiate it, as Falwell suggests, from other schools. Then it might be possible to have a considered opinion about the responsibility of their actions.
 
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