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True -- but you act like it isn't a solvable problem by btd

Ask yourself why you are not reading about outbreaks tied to Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart of any grocery stores? None of them ever closed - not for a single day. How did they manage to not get infected?

Then ask yourself about the before and after at the meat packing plants -- before they pulled their heads out of their asses and after they closed, regrouped and opened back up?

Then ask yourself about the hospitals. Once they fully deployed proper PPE, the infection rates of HCP dropped to zero at nearly all of the hospitals.

Then ask yourself about the Florida nursing homes -- and The Villages where my parents live (both 80 years old). Why didn't they have the same issues as NY, PA, etc?

The answers to above tell you why ND and all colleges can safely reopen.

1) The students themselves are at least 99.9% likely to not die from the virus even if they get it.

2) Any student with a preexisting condition can be eliminated -- they aren't allowed to attend on campus.

3) Why can't all ND employees have PPE? Why can't the dining hall workers, etc be setup the same as restaurant workers? Change the self serve config back to workers behind a counter put what you select on a plate

4) Run the gyms at ND the same as businesses run their gyms. 90% of us went to ND when those amenities didn't exist for that matter -- so arguably, just close them all down.

5) Classes are the easiest to solve. Just expand the count of how often each class is taught -- maybe holding far more night classes due to the expanded length of the schedule that creates. That drops flow of people in buildings and rooms

6) Dorms. For ND -- that's by far the hardest problem to solve. Nearly all other colleges don't have that issue because they have a tiny percentage of students in dorms. For ND, single person rooms would leave 70% of dorm students displaced.