In late August, less than a week after classes started, the State University of New York at Oneonta suspended five students who, officials said, had organized parties in the upstate town that might have led to a coronavirus outbreak on campus.Five days later, the outbreak was out of control, with nearly 400 virus cases among a campus student population that is usually around 6,000.
The college, in Otsego County, about 80 miles west of Albany, said that classes would be canceled Friday to allow students to prepare to go home. More than 50 students who were suspected of having the virus were in quarantine on campus, and 100 who had tested positive were in isolation, according to daily data the college has posted online.
But the efforts did not apparently stem the campus outbreak. By Wednesday, officials said that 289 cases had been confirmed after more than 2,500 students and more than 200 employees had been tested. Another 100 people tested positive by Thursday. After the college began testing students, faculty members and other employees en masse, some students who tested positive filmed themselves being woken up in the early hours of the morning and rushed into vans by men in white hazmat suits who took them to campus locations where they were to quarantine.
Dimonda, who does not have symptoms of the virus, was tested shortly after the college made it mandatory for students living on campus to be tested after the outbreak began.
Not surprising. The sheeple refuse to wear masks and maintain social distancing is why we can not get a grip on this virus.
surprise!