Kentucky got beat by Alabama pretty bad last Saturday in football.
But I’m sure my friend Ted Schatzki, a professor of Geography, and of Philosophy and Sociology, and the former senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky is more concerned if his school will get badly beaten-up by the coronavirus over the next few months.
Students at UK began clearing out last weekend from university housing to begin their journey home. They’re expected to stay there after the holiday, take exams online, and then return at the end of January.
But will they return to campus? Will it be safe enough?
“That’s a question mark now because the rise is so exponential in coronavirus cases that it’s hard to know what the story is going to be a week from now,” Schatzki told me.
He said that from an epidemiological point of view, it makes it hard to know what should happen, if the situation doesn’t improve.
“You have all these people moving from one location to another, you don’t just want to bring them back again,” he said, at least not without adequate testing.
