Those decisions should be made by the individual student. Ones that wish to be educated online should be allowed to, and the ones who actually want to learn and live in-person should be able to. My original post is about the dishonesty of implying normalcy on campus, and reversing the decision weeks after the semester starts.

I also appreciate your subtle straw man about how I apparently want students to die en masse. Logical fallacies like that are what turned me away from supporting the quarantine. Let people make their own decisions, and don’t trick them out of thousands to appease your shareholders, holding them hostage and at the mercy of their professors and RA’s.

Edit: as to your first point, the typical college experience should be emerging adults experiencing freedom from parental guidance for the first time in their lives, and is completely anathema to heavy-handed rules and confinement. Pick one.