The popular opinion on campus right now is that UK will revert to all-online classes by the end of the semester and had planned to do this all along. The consensus is that UK brought us to campus for the income made off of meal plans, parking spaces and housing, only to send us home half-way through the semester for safety reasons so they can keep our money. Although there is no evidence of this, it seems likely. Bringing people back to campus has caused a spike in coronavirus cases (expectantly) due to the social construct build into the college atmosphere. While some students are following regulations, its inevitable that some will continue to socialize as they normally would. We are especially seeing this with greek life right now, as UK has concluded that there is an increase rate of 3% of Covid cases in the Greek population compared to the general student population. They have determined this by re-testing the students involved in Greek Life at UK. There are multiple reasons that Greek life has higher infection rates. The first and most obvious one, is that they are ignoring the precautions and continuing to engage in social events such as partying. I have witnessed large gatherings myself off of campus. Another possibility, is that social distancing in Greek housing is less of an option than the dorms. After living in the Theta house last year, I can confidently say that it is near to impossible to social distance from the 50 other girls you live with in one house. This thought came to me when i heard of how many Covid cases there currently were in the new Theta house. While I'm sure they are doing the best they can, it is difficult to isolate in your own home when so many others live there as well. Regardless, the conclusion is that Covid will be too difficult to contain on a campus with so many students and will most likely result in all-online classes until the virus can be better contained.
(This video is of the students at UK not following social distance guidelines)
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