UNC Provides Definition for a "clusterf**k"

It was just two week ago that students began moving into residence halls at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.  I assume that they were excited to back in school and to have the chance to hang out with friends over on Franklin Street, the social hub of Chapel Hill.  The whole in-person education venture at UNC collapsed in just the span of those two weeks as Covid-19 cases have spiked at the school, with clusters of cases at residence halls and at least one fraternity.  This headline from the school paper sums up what everyone should have know before the lugged their stuff back into their dorm rooms.



Of course the blame has to fall on the irresponsible students who, following the example of so many of our leaders, failed to take the appropriate precautions and behaved like....college students.  

On Monday, Barbara Rimer, dean of UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, called for the university to move to online-only classes. Rimer cited the “growing numbers of clusters and insufficient control over the off-campus behavior of students (and others)“ after only one week of the fall semester.

“We have tried to make this work, but it is not working,” Rimer said.

How do you make something like this work in the midst of a pandemic where it is painfully obvious that the virus is everywhere and is highly contagious?  These are people who apparently would play Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun.