It was the right decision at the right time.
by ewillND (2020-02-29 07:54:25)

In reply to: Seems to be a little bit too late. Hope our students are ok *  posted by Frank Drebin


It would have been difficult to make it any more quickly. This thing blew up here this week. It didn't occur to me when we left on Monday to ski for three days in Austria that I would spend this weekend planning online instruction for next week just in case. No decision has been made on that yet.

Meanwhile, we've had tens of thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths here due to influenza--it has been a nasty year for it.


Columbia, Syracuse Stanford others started 2 weeks ago *
by Frank Drebin  (2020-02-29 08:48:33)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post


Not from Italy. Let's not be disingenuous.
by ewillND  (2020-02-29 09:02:59)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Evacuations from programs in Florence (which is closer to Lombardy than Rome) started on Tuesday. There weren't any cases reported in Italy two weeks ago, outside of two Chinese tourists in Rome (a city of 3 million people). Let's not blow this out of proportion.