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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8074827" data-attributes="member: 6701124">The latest news at our University: <a href="https://www.wltx.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/two-sorority-houses-quarantined-at-usc-after-students-test-positive-for-coronavirus/101-f08a19cc-6c33-40dd-81ce-00e4bd1fa31d" target="_blank">Two USC sorority houses quarantined after students test positive for coronavirus</a>but everything else is chugging along:[URL unfurl="true"]https://sc.edu/safety/coronavirus/dashboard/index.php[/URL]It feels like UofSC (35k students, 6k employees) was a bit more realistic than some campuses about expecting a sizable number of infections right about this week and next and then to hopefully hold that steady by tracing and quarantining. We'll see if they guessed that right... and hopefully don't get any deaths -- and if they'll stay open when it gets to several hundred cases at any one time.For the courses, a lot are just on-line, and I don't think there are many that are just in person without an on-line option. Both of mine have the option (they asked folks to keep the in-class if at all possible when it looked like the feds were clamping down on international students). The room is usually 72 seat. Since it's department controlled the University itself didn't do anything about labeling the seats like it did in rooms the registrar controls, so I took out 30 desks (hid them in a lab room), put a bunch against the wall, and spaced out the capacity this semester of 25. Only 7-9 have been coming live to one, and none to the other (ventilation comes in by piping from the roof, AC is chilled water in room, and the windows open).  The spacing in some other rooms seems a foot or two less.[ATTACH=full]125126[/ATTACH]One of the bigger local game shops has been allowing folks to come in and play for a while.  The mostly MtG one I used to frequent has had a few evenings with a handful of tables open, but hasn't really pushed it yet.   Thank goodness for Spelltable and Discord for paper MtG and a couple different on-line options for D&D.</blockquote>

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