Johns Hopkins Prof: America’s elite universities are defying science and reason by clinging to cruel COVID policies that we now know cause more harm than good.
Universities are supposed to be bastions of critical thinking, reason and logic.
But the Covid policies they have adopted — policies that have derailed two years of students’ education and threaten to upend the upcoming spring semester — have exposed them as nonsensical, anti-scientific and often downright cruel.
Some of America’s most prestigious universities are leading the charge.
At Georgetown University, fully vaccinated students are randomly tested for Covid every week. Using a PCR test, which can detect tiny amounts of dead virus, asymptomatic students who test positive are ordered to a room in a designated building where they spend 10 days in confinement. Food is dropped off once a day at the door.
I spoke to several students who were holed up. One of them told me she would sometimes call a friend to come and wave at her through the window, just to see a human face. Another told me that the experience in quarantine ‘totally changed’ her feelings about the school.
‘Everyone’s just fed up at this point,’ she said. ‘People walk around the library and yell at you if you drink a sip of water. And it was during finals.’
She told me she is thinking about ‘transferring to an SEC school just to have an in-person experience.’
Given the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently changed the official quarantine period from 10 days to five, I reached out to Georgetown’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Ranit Mishori. She told me that Georgetown is still using a 10-day quarantine.
Students are the lowest risk population on planet Earth. Over the last six months, the risk of a person in the broader age group (15-24) dying of Covid or dying with Covid (the CDC does not clearly distinguish), was 0.001%. All or nearly all of those deaths were in a very specific subgroup: unvaccinated people with a medical comorbidity.