The effect of covid on college towns

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So much has occurred on the covid front since these videos were posted in late August of 2020. The recent touting of possible vaccines only encourages students/people who hate following covid sanctions to continue ignoring covid sanctions. And that isn't good for ANY town, with a university or not.

Common news, people: vaccines for the gen pub won't be available as quickly as you think. And RIGHT NOW our local/county hospitals are all quickly losing ICU bed space.

I live in a college town, too, and here the problem of both students and citizens not masking and ignoring necessary distancing/occupation capacity limits continues. There appears to be no basic care for one another as human beings to prevent covid's spread and no discipline to follow any new covid guidelines longer than a week or two.

There is also the political fight between factions of government. The president has no national covid plan, and our governor's requests for voluntary sanctions are both followed and fought against by the people and their elected representatives. Our county stays silent beyond the basic "wash hands, keep a 6 foot distance, and wear masks". Our town mayor continues to state, "do want you want, no harm no foul no fines for not following the governor's covid guidelines". The lack of caring and finer leadership by some government officials is unbecoming.

Lastly: On my daily walk yesterday I noticed a dozen new out-of-state license plates on cars parked within two miles of my home. Which means students home for break, and people visiting relatives who traveled to here from there, further spreading who knows how much covid virus and complicating an already dire national emergency covid situation.