Read on Twitter
The reopening of UW-Madison seems to be a situation in which every variable broke negative rather than positive. One thing I've learned as an adult it's that you should never build a plan of serious consequences depending on a hopeful parlay of low percentage occurrences.
Thats the best most generous thing I can say about this situation: people convinced themselves that they could parlay some unlikely things (a campus high on the playboy partyschool ranking not gathering, full dorm occupancy being okay, no testing delay). This is from 19 days ago:
But here we are. The county public health authority warns anyone near campus to assume you've been exposed to COVID, asking the university to send students out of Madison. A two week lockdown, and sending all courses online. https://apps.umark.wisc.edu/lighthouse-letters/letters/500/preview?auth=33bab1f0f4407a4047c8c2930ec32c1b
These are the right decisions for the emergency we are now in, but the situation was avoidable. And it's not just system & campus admin at fault. State legislature has starved the univ system for ten years. We were forced to rely on dorms, fees, & tuition to balance budgets.
