Washtenaw County to Issue Stay at Home Order for M Students

Here is the actual order:  https://www.washtenaw.org/DocumentCenter/View/18386/Order---Stay-in-pla…;

It only mentions UM undergraduates. Says nothing about Ann Arbor residents in the same age group.  Graduate students are not mentioned either.

I can see the point of trying to curtail the spread of Covid but they are still leaving a lot of openings by other people. 

I take a 15 mile bike ride around A2 3-4 time a week that routes me through the Diag and the ghetto and don't recall seeing any graduate students playing drinking games in front of their houses.

There is one house on Granger near White where there always seems to be a group of coeds playing beer pong out front in the afternoons. I kinda miss throngs of hard drinking young ladies around -- get very little (okay, none) of that with my wife of almost 31 years.

(Begrudging Dad-joke +1)

And, somewhat by your definition of access to medical professionals, frequent and sustained testing protocols.

I think that is a weak argument though unless the athletes are isolated from the broader undergraduate community. The health department has determined that the undergraduate population at Michigan is the primary source of spread in the county.  As a result, that community is ordered to stay home to limit this spread.  The football team does have the advantage of more testing but as the White House has shown us aggressive testing does not prevent the spread of Covid once its established in a population. We have seen this with NFL teams as well.  The incubation period limits the effectiveness of frequent testing. Once you declare a community (U of M undergrads) as problem the requires locking them down it is questionable to exempt members of that community (U of M athletes).  The other exemptions require “Strict adherence to preventive measures”.  You can’t do this when playing football.

I don’t necessarily agree with the lockdown of students.  I think they could launch a much more aggressive approach to gatherings/parties.  However, once they went with the lockdown approach the football exception is hypocritical at best and damages public acceptance of their other orders.

A man I work with is my age, 36, had no preexisting conditions, caught covid in March, was in bed for 4 weeks, couldn't exercise for another 6, and still has week long fevers of 102 where he doesn't know whether he is contagious, whether he needs to go to the ER, whether the condition will deteriorate, and if it will ever go away. My childhood friend's dad died. And people like you continue to mock wearing a piece of cloth over your face so that less people will suffer those fates.

This country has been fucked up for a while. This virus is just shining a Maglite up to it.

I'll bet $10 internet dollars you are not part of the group being targeted.

Let's be blunt.  It's ALWAYS easier to support a policy of "take rights away from those people" when you aren't being directly affected.

If Washtenaw County believes they have a problem, target everybody.  Aren't we supposed to be "following the science?"  Well, science is definitive in saying that Washtenaw County residents who are not U-M undergrads can also spread the virus.