Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
Yes and he answered the question. Follow the guidance and specifically for those to whom it applies unique advice.

The ones who live with their families aren't at risk of spreading the virus from one town to another if they go home, so yes that doesn't apply to them. That's irrelevant and pathetic when it does apply to hundreds of thousands if not millions of others it is very sound advice to give.

The guidance of not changing towns if you might have the virus isn't about protecting the person who might have the virus it is about preventing them spreading it elsewhere. If they already have it and are in the home of those who already have it then yes it won't protect them but that's not the frigging point. You really aren't grasping a pretty basic point are you?
Genuinely astonished by the difficulties you're having understanding the very clear question that was asked, and the lengths to which you're going to spin Johnson's inadequate answer. To summarize, neither you nor Johnson have adequate advice to unis for protecting uni students, their families and their communities; what you have is inadequate advice to students for how they themselves can mitigate transmission. If you can't protect 1 in 5 uni students, you can't protect the people—both students and staff—they interact with on campus, just as you can't protect their families and their communities. An answer to the question that was asked might have been to urge unis to completely switch over to online-only education, foregoing in-person sessions to the greatest extent possible, to explore ways in which they can assist students who don't have sufficient means to study properly from home, to urge all unis to require face masks for all in-person education, to beef up ventilation in any enclosed area where people might gather, to offer good alternatives to eating in communal areas, to consider participating in surveillance programs, etc.