HopFan16 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:31 pm
DocBarrister wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:19 pm
Those football games are almost certainly contributing to the pandemic.
The alumni events won’t all be outdoors. I’m certain there will be plenty of gatherings indoors as well. Just not worth the additional risk.
There should be no controversy about this decision.
DocBarrister
Doc, please read what's been posted. This is not why the events were postponed. It was specifically because of Hopkins' silly rule around sharing food and drink. Blue Jays Unlimited, the the group that puts the event on, decided to postpone because people weren't happy with the proposed setup.
The school was prepared to host events both indoors and outdoors provided they followed the food & drink guidelines, but those guidelines quite frankly don't make any sense. People were right to be annoyed by them. There's no science to support that an outdoor tent party of mostly vaccinated individuals enjoying a bar and buffet is a high risk event. You'll recall that every single person affiliated with Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse from Joey Epstein down to the Cordish Center janitor is vaccinated because the school (rightly, IMO) requires it. But that mandate means they should be allowed to have a relatively normal event. I don't know if they were requiring alumni attendees to be vaccinated but I can't imagine they were going to let people on campus without at least a test.
My issue is that there are some alums disingenuously criticizing the decision when in fact they were not going to attend anyway because they're still bitter that the school wanted a new head coach after 20 years. If you really care then lobby the school to relax the food rules instead of going on social media with vague criticism for no one in particular which can be read as shots at the staff. Perhaps that's the point.
What, this policy?
https://covidinfo.jhu.edu/messages-and- ... uirements/
That policy makes sense.
If the gathering is truly outdoors, fine.
But the idea is to prevent any close gatherings indoors, even if transient … thus the quick grab-n-go. That eliminates buffets.
I’m sure Johns Hopkins has folks with more public health and infectious disease expertise than anyone on this forum formulating these policies.
So why don’t you amateur public health gurus stop questioning the experts and let the true experts provide the appropriate guidance?
It’s this kind of idiotic second guessing that led the United States to suffer 750,000 COVID-19 deaths while South Korea, a nation with over 50 million people, has suffered fewer than 3,000.
DocBarrister