28 Texas Students Have Coronavirus After Spring Break Trip
Source: New York Times
A group of about 70 students from the University of Texas at Austin celebrated spring break in Mexico, but returned to find that 28 had tested positive. Dozens more are being monitored.
AUSTIN Two weeks ago, amid the global coronavirus pandemic, about 70 students from the University of Texas at Austin partied in Mexico on spring break. The students, all in their 20s, flew on a chartered plane to Cabo San Lucas, and some returned on separate commercial flights to Texas.
Now, 28 of them have tested positive for the virus and are self-isolating. Dozens more are under quarantine and are being monitored and tested, university officials said Wednesday.
The Austin outbreak is the latest to result from a group of college students who ignored social-distancing guidelines, went on traditional spring break trips and have now tested positive for the coronavirus. Many of them appeared to be under the mistaken impression that young people were not as vulnerable to the coronavirus as older people. Students at the University of Tampa, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and other colleges have tested positive after returning from spring break trips to Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and elsewhere.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/coronavirus-texas-austin-spring-break-cabo.html
Oy.
la-trucker
(283 posts)What were they thinking?
Initech
(100,068 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)A disproportionate number of positive cases in my county are in their age group.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)any good reason to come back if classes are online and you can get a good internet connection at home?
milestogo
(16,829 posts)and living in apartments, so they consider themselves home. Also, there are thousands of graduate students who live here, although they are less likely to take off to Florida for spring break.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)I blame the venues, the colleges, the parents AND the kids.
OnlinePoker
(5,719 posts)They were warned and still went.
Warpy
(111,255 posts)Adults around them, including governors here and in Mexico, should have shut the venues down.
GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)that this here might coulda happen?
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I still bear the scars of the fucked up decisions I made when I was 19-22. I can vaguely remember how bulletproof I felt and I had no connection with the real world. Just study(which I did well) girls and beer. Im honest to admit I would have been right there with them.
Know who I have deep seated revulsion for? The supposedly wiser political leaders who allowed them to come down here and do what kids do.
Anyone stupid enough to place any faith in 20 year olds making good decisions about their own well being, not to mention others, is a fool. Or in this case greedy SOBs more worried about spring break revenue than the public good.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,748 posts)Really, we were more at the fist bump stage.
And young people were said to be unlikely to get sick. Not many people were aware they could spread it without being sick themselves.
I dont blame them because I recall my neighbor telling me, in the middle of spring break week,
that the school board had just announced schools were also going to be closed the following week. There were only a handful of deaths at that point.
By the following week we were starting to realize how scary this thing was.