So the ultimate question I myself and everyone else on campus has this semester: will everyone be sent home due to a second coronavirus outbreak and will all classes go online, or will we be able to finish this semester on campus, the same way we started? Personally, I think with everything going on, I have a feeling we will eventually be sent home and finish all of our classes online for the rest of the semester, at some point. Based on what I've seen, I know that the University, does, in fact, have positive cases, and a positivity rate of 1.2%. However, I know this will change, so here is a link to the frequently updated page of coronavirus cases that have impacted the campus up until this point.
Knowing what I do right now, I've heard of there potentially being a second outbreak of COVID coming this fall, along with the recurring flu season, which might make things messier than they have been due to the fact that it'll be harder to diagnose two different viruses and it might be harder to manage everyone on campus with a second outbreak. Because of the fact that we are still trying to take control of the virus right now, I think we will end up going all online again sometime this semester. When there were no positive cases on campus in March, we were still sent home and went completely online (I plan on making a post about this in the future), so I feel like if cases increase and it becomes a bigger threat to everyone, they will make the decision to go fully online to keep everyone safe. Hopefully everything works out and we can finish the semester the way we've started it, but hindsight is 2020 and all we have left to do is keep doing what we are, and find out when the time is right.
UPDATE 9/4: It seems as though some colleges have already closed due to COVID and are having trouble with keeping the number of cases down to a manageable number, and I've embedded a video about that below.
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