<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Greetings:</font><div><font face="georgia, serif">Chuck P. (Sept. 12) spoke too soon about no hospitalization and no deaths.  </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:14px">There has been a rapid rise of cases in Latah County from 25 on July 2 to 410 on Sept. 25. (UI and Christ Church, I suspect.) Six hospitalizations on the Palouse and now one Covid death.</span><br style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-size:14px"></font><div><font color="#1c1e21" face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Below is the long version of my DNews column, which will be published in Pocatello's Idaho State Journal on Sunday.</span></font></div><div><font color="#1c1e21" face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14px">nfg</span></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">An Explosion of COVID-19 on Our Campuses:<br clear="all">
3,200 New Cases Every Day from July to September</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">by Nick Gier<b></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">The original sin
was inviting the students back to campus<br clear="all">
</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">—Michael
Innis-Jimenez, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (2,690 cases)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">What we didn’t model for is that people would choose<br clear="all">
to go to a party if they knew that they were positive.<br clear="all">
</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">—Martin Burke,
University of Illinois</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">By one set of measures, the U.S. ranks 131<sup>st</sup>
in the world in controlling the coronavirus. Researchers at
<a href="http://www.endcoronavirus.org">www.endcoronavirus.org</a> rank countries in three categories: those that have
“beat the virus” (30, including New Zealand, Taiwan, and Thailand); those that
are “nearly there” (18, China, Australia, and South Korea); and those that
“need action,” where the U.S., Brazil, Sweden, and Israel join 81 other
nations. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">When Israel opened its schools in late May, they
experienced a huge virus outbreak, which, as one news source reported,</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> “forced hundreds of schools to close, and tens of thousands of students
and teachers were quarantined.” Responding to 4,000 daily new coronavirus
infections (the most per capita in the world), Israel is now facing a second
14-day lockdown. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">U.S. Virus Cases up 22%;
Deaths up 5%</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“Out of control” most aptly describes government
mismanagement in the U.S., Brazil, and India. A Trump inspired p</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">remature opening of American businesses and schools, primarily in the
South, led to record number of cases and deaths in July. Memorial Day
celebrations may have been a primary driver.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Trump’s fatuous claim that “we have turned the
corner,” belies a Labor Day spike and the opening of schools, colleges, and
universities. Virus cases are up 22 percent two weeks after a holiday and
deaths increased 5 percent as of September 24.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Many Campus Residences in
Quarantine</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">According to a recent analysis, Wisconsin is the
only blue state among 11 blue states that have the most cases per capita, and
that is most likely because the University of Wisconsin-Madison has 2,775 cases
and has suspended in-person instruction. Two dorms are now in quarantine, and
the county commissioners are considering sending all dorm residents home. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Other authorities, including the White House’s Debra
Birx, are warning that sending students home without testing them will only
further spread the virus. At the University of Illinois, the administration has
locked down its dormitories and allow students out only for classes and medical
emergencies. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Faced with a tripling of cases, the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville has run out of quarantine space and has told some uninfected
students to move out of their dorms. At the University of Arizona, all students
on campus and within a specified perimeter are being told to shelter in place
for 14 days. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“Beyond our Wildest
Nightmares”</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Other universities that have mandated a two-week
quarantine include University of Colorado, North Carolina State, Michigan
State, and Notre Dame. Gavin Yamey, a Duke professor of Global Health,
exclaims: “It has been beyond our wildest nightmares. It has been a debacle and
a national catastrophe. It was a self-inflicted national wound.” Duke has the
lowest infection rate on the nation’s campuses, but Yamey still recommends that
all students be tested before they go home for Thanksgiving break.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">College Towns: 3,200 Extra Cases
per day</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">An incomplete survey of 1,300 campuses done by the <i>New
York Times</i> has identified more than 130,000 cases with 70 deaths. Researchers
from three institutions have done a more comprehensive study using cell phone and
GPS data. They estimate that 3,200 extra cases per day appeared in college
towns from mid-July to mid-September. This was the same method that produced
the 267,000 death estimate for new cases stemming from the Sturgis motorcycle
rally in South Dakota.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">About 40 percent of college and university campuses
were set to open for in-person classes, but only 25 percent have met that goal
and the rest have gone to on-line teaching. Nine of 15 major public
universities have switched to virtual instruction. Tim White, former UI
president and now Chancellor of the 23-campus California State University (the
largest in the nation), has moved his </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">484,300 </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">students on-line.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“Close Fraternity Houses.
Period”</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Pittsburgh Regional Health released a survey of
public health experts on how colleges should respond to virus outbreaks. One of
the report’s conclusions was: “Close fraternity houses. Period.”</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Officials at Indiana University-Bloomington requested that all Greek
houses close for the semester, but negotiations led to suspending 40 and
locking down the rest. After a party at the Acacia Fraternity house, 88 percent
of its members tested positive. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(18,18,18)">Purdue University has quarantined 23
fraternities, sororities and other student housing, and Boise State University has
suspended three fraternities and 18 students for violating virus regulations.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Some Administrators are the Problem</span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">The administration at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa warned faculty
not to discuss the pandemic or have students report positive cases to them. <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">University of Missouri president Mun Choi had blocked
his Twitter account after receiving complaints about his COVID policies, but
the backlash was so great that he unblocked it. A journalist was not able to
identify whom bystanders said was a college president lining up unmasked for
selfies at a Maryland bar.</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Lock
Down</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">
UI’s Lambda Chi Alpha!<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">On September 9, I reported a large unmasked
gathering at UI’s Lambda Chi Alpha. I did not receive return calls from the
Dean of Students nor from city or campus police. Also, President Scott Green
did not get back to me after an initial promise to investigate. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Athletes, COVID-19, and
Myocarditis</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The UI said that it would update its athletic case
numbers by August 31, but it has yet to do so. (During the month of July, 9 had
tested positive and two staff as well.) ESPN surveyed 65 athletic powerhouses
and one-third did not provide coronavirus protocols nor did they release case
numbers. This information is imperative because 15 percent of college athletes
have been diagnosed with myocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart
muscle that can be fatal.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">In August Jamain Stephens, a promising football recruit at
Pennsylvania’s California University, came down with the virus and then suddenly
died of a blood clot. Neither Stephens nor his team members were tested for the
virus, no temperatures were taken, and there was no contact tracing. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Ed Orgeron, Louisiana State’s football coach, reported that “most
of his players had contracted the virus.” After 27 tested positive, every
athlete at Miami University in Ohio will have to isolate for two weeks.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> All athletic activity
at the University of Maryland-College Park was halted after positive results
rose sharply.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">At Least 98 Post-COVID
Illnesses</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A local columnist in Moscow-Pullman tried to
reassure his readers that, as</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"> there have been no local hospitalizations or
deaths, we should not be worried. Since he wrote, there have been six virus
admissions at local hospitals and one death.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">According to the CDC, hospitalization rates
have risen to 100 per 100,000 among ages 0-29, with an alarming 17 per 100,000
for children 0-4 years old, and 74 per 100,000 for age group 18-29. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">COVID-19’s “Long Tail”</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Dr. Natalie Lambert has conducted a COVID-19
“Long Hauler” survey, and she has found 98 long-lasting conditions due to the
virus, many in young people. They</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"> people are experiencing cognitive dysfunction or memory loss; some have
lung pain, hypoxia, or profound fatigue; others have had strokes, blood clots,
numbness, hearing loss, increased heart rate, or cardiac dysfunction.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Over 500,000 children have now tested positive for the virus, and doctors
say that some of them may suffer from post-COVID illnesses for the rest of
their lives. They will of course need treatment much longer than older
patients. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">One doctor warned that “if someone in their teens and 20s suffers a
stroke or embolism, it could impact their long-term life choices in profound
ways.” CNN anchor and virus survivor Richard Quest has warned that “COVID is a
tornado with a very long tail.”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Virus Increases at UI and
WSU</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The first round of testing at the UI found 34 cases,
but after a Labor Day spike, the total is now 126—41 percent of the cases in
Latah County on September 21. WSU now has over 900 cases and Pullman made
national headlines for college towns that have the highest per capita numbers. The
total case numbers in Whitman County is currently 1,240.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">From September 6-12 the percentage of those who
tested positive in Whitman County was an alarming 19 percent. The UI positivity
rate has now climbed to 4.7 percent, just under the 5 percent that the CDC
recommends for safe activities. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Following national trends, the largest group of new
infections for Whitman and Latah County is people from 18-29. There has been a
rapid rise of cases in Latah County—from 25 July 2 to 410 on September 25. All
but two of the most recent cases 31 cases were 18-29 years-old.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Excellent Virus Positivity
Rate at BSU</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">ISU has reported 80 cases, which is 8 percent of Bannock
County’s 995. (No positivity rate was available.) With about double the number
of students, Boise State University has 167 cases with an excellent 1.14
percent positivity rate.  This shows that
there has been enough testing to validate good progress on controlling the virus.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">BSU-AFT President Tedd McDonald emailed me that currently
about half of the institution’s classes are now taught on-line, but the UI
administration has not been so flexible. UI-AFT President Dale Graden reported
that about 150 faculty have asked to teach solely on-line, but their requests
were declined.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">BSU’s McDonald was pleased that the administration
was so inclusive in consulting faculty and staff. My research shows that this
has generally been the case across the nation. One headline asked: “Will COVID
Bring Power Back to the Faculty”?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">SUNY Faculty Union
Guaranties Safe Campuses</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The United University Professionals (AFT), the
largest faculty union in the nation, represents faculty and professional staff
at the 29-campus State University of New York. 
The union has just reached an agreement with its administration on a
comprehensive virus testing program. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The AFT’s detailed “Plan to Safely Reopen Schools
and Communities” is being used in school districts nation-wide. If the Trump
administration had controlled the virus as other countries have, then our
students, our workers, and our economy would be in far better shape.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Nick Gier</span><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">is professor emeritus at the
University of Idaho. He was president of the Higher Education Council of the
Idaho Federation of Teachers from 2004 to 2020. Read his other columns on the
virus at </span><a href="http://nfgier.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://nfgier.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (search
“coronavirus”).</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span><a href="mailto:Read%20his%20columns%20on%20higher%20education%20at%20webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/HighEdColumns.htm" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Read his columns on higher education at </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/HighEdColumns.htm</span></a><u><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:blue">.</span></u><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> Email him at
<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a>.</span></p></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>   <div style="height:auto;width:auto">   <div> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size:13.3333330154419px">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. </span><br style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-size:13.3333330154419px">-Greek proverb</span></div><div><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance 
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not 
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it 
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your 
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
<br>
--Immanuel Kant<br>
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