So, the University of North Carolina
opened, and James Madison University (much closer to home for me) opened and
both of them decided after a week, or even less, to close due to the increase
of cases of Covid-19 and the immanent and obviously predictable spread of the
pandemic and its death to their staffs and their communities. I commented on this in a letter to my local
news:
I was heartened to see that JMU students
were concerned about the health of the greater Harrisonburg community. If
only the administration of the university were as empathetic and intelligent as
the students, we wouldn’t have to learn the hard way that it is too early in
the course of this pandemic to reopen the school. As G. W. F. Hegel 1770 – 1856
said: "What experience and history
teach us is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from
history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
Apparently, the hard way is the only way.
Now, perhaps because Trump wants it, the
Big Ten conference (14 teams) is going to play football. The chancellors and presidents have made
their implicit decisions.
“Yes, we know that this will kill people, but hey;
you know, money.”
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