Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts is perhaps the best example of this phenomenon, where mask mandates within the school have proven completely useless at prevent the spread of COVID. Which, of course, means that they must continue.
An open letter written by the college’s president, Beverly Daniel Tatum perfectly summarized the remarkable lack of logic required to continue masking:
“I am sorry to say that because of the relatively high confirmed COVID-19 case counts on campus (approximately 50 per week since the start of the semester) we will need to continue our indoor mask mandate until further notice.”
How remarkable is that?
The president explains that their current mask mandate has been unable to stop a “relatively high” amount of “confirmed COVID-19 case counts” on campus, and so they’ll need to continue doing it.
The less it works, the more we need it.
It’s a wonderful distillation of the inherent absurdities among pro-masking groups, exemplified by the cowardice, incompetence and lack of critical thinking now inherent amongst college administrators.
Masks aren’t working to stop the rapid spread of the virus, so we need to continue masking. How can these policies ever end with nonsensical thinking like this?
Supposedly COVID cases on campus have, according to the letter, “taxed our campus health care system and residential services to the limit.”
How can this be happening?
We know that college students are at incredibly low risk of serious complications from COVID, not to mention that Mt. Holyoke College, as committed members of the anti-science wing of the left,
mandated COVID vaccines for everyone at the school last year.
It’s confusing that COVID cases have “taxed” their campus health care system to the limit, when everyone that works at the college is vaccinated and everyone who attends the college is vaccinated.
Oh, and
they’re boosted too.