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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:06:18 JST Paul Cantrell

   • arclight

   @arclight
   I won’t pretend the institution always gets things right — doesn’t, not at all — but there’s a surprisingly large number of people here with their heads screwed on straight who are willing to listen to evidence. And it’s a place where caring for others and feeling a sense of personal agency is very much the norm. Not a bad foundation.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:12:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @kmck @arclight
     I’ve had a similar thought. My suspicion is that there are simply too many confounders to make that feasible. Maybe in a meta-analysis across schools. But I’m not a statistician, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

     I will say that we have anecdotally observed what seems to be a low rate of in-classroom transmission; main culprits seem to be dorms and off-campus spaces. But that’s just eyeballs and stories, not systematic data collection. We don't really know.

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     Kiki Buber (kmck@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:12:44 JST Kiki Buber

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     @inthehands @arclight Would be great if some data about infection could be teased out of Mac vs some comparable school that didn’t do an upgrade.

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     Asymmetricblue (asymmetricblue@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 10:56:40 JST Asymmetricblue

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     @inthehands @kmck @arclight Increasing fresh air intake is possible in buildings with forced air systems.
     Think about the buildings on your campus without central air. Often older dorms with radiant heat that are expected to be vacant in the summer.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 10:56:40 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @Asymmetricblue @kmck @arclight
     Yup, that’s right: the dorms were the biggest problem, and the least solvable. They instituted various social safety protocols in the early pandemic (including single housing during the year when most students were remote), but there was only so much they could do.