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Essentially right now Cornell is trying to cover their asses and get the students out of there. They don't want to have to continue testing for Covid as the case numbers have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels this past week and it's making Cornell (which if you remember was on national media just a year ago being touted as to "how to do it right" on all things Covid protocols) look bad.

The students, parents and the locals in Ithaca are bewildered, pissed and overall frightened (in all of the wrong ways for the most part.) Universally the current Cornell admins are despised and they are flailing about trying to explain what is happening with Mad Hatter logic.

That the increase in cases is happening due to the heavily vaxxed Cornell populace having their immune systems vaporized by these injections is a conversation that is off the table.

First thing to understand is that Cornell gets copious funding from the NIH/DARPA/Gates etc and this funding determines their research. It is not a stretch to say that if that funding dries up Cornell in it's current form collapses.

It is also important to understand that Cornell's board of trustees and the entire University investment portfolio is invested up to it's neck in all things Bio-Tech and are counting on this "next wave" of biomedical cash cows.

Lastly it's important to understand that Cornell upper level admins are arrogant beyond comprehension. They will NEVER admit to any failures or corruption. Everything that has been done in these past two years has been done with ZERO transparency.

I sent the following letter to 3 Cornell poobahs yesterday- if and when I get a response I will post it:

Hi ______,

The most recent letter sent out by the administration is a little confusing so I am hoping to gain some clarification on this matter and hope that you can provide some clarity on what seem to be some contradictions.

The questions I am asking are obviously in the context of soaring cases which by all standards of the past two years are unprecedented and the accompanying policy decisions both past and present.

1) In this most recent letter, it is stated that the transmission has been occurring due to travel and due to social gatherings. What is your current evidence for this?

2) In this letter it is noted that transmission has not been occurring in academic settings. What is your current evidence that supports this?

3) In this letter there is an assertion that vaccines are our best protection. Based on the two questions above does this then imply that the vaccines work in academic settings but not in social settings?

4) If the caveat is that the social settings are less likely to include mask wearing does this then mean that the vaccines only work when accompanied by a mask?

5) If there is such "spread" causing record number of "cases" isn't this a clear indication that the medical strategies that have been employed over the past year and a half (vaccines, masks and/or vaccine/mask combination) at best don't work and therefore promoting more of the same, e.g. "boosters", is doubling down on a failed strategy?

6) There are numerous universities throughout the country that are not employing the "strategies" employed at Cornell and are having little to no problem with infections or cases- this with very large social gatherings of all types. How does the administration reconcile this fact with what is happening at Cornell?

Look forward to hearing your clarification on the matter.

Thanks _______,

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Ted Lowe's avatar

College administrators are not selected from a group of sage, reflective, well-rounded people. They are often failed academics with a penchant for bureaucratic diktats and back slapping luncheons with wealthy donors. Others are graduates of the college who could not cut it “on the outside.”. Not a group one expects to find anything but craven cowardice and mindfuckery. The whole sector obviously needs a boot planted firmly up its arse (I say this as an academic). End student loan subsidies and the federal grant gravy train for the schools to actually compete for enrollments and private research funds and see how quickly the sector self corrects or implodes. Hopefully, more students will realize the college educations are largely a crock (does one really need a BS in Business or a BA in grievance studies?) and vote with their feet through cheaper options and apprenticeships in the private sector.

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