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Red_Turtle 16 points ago +17 / -1

Here's something people need to look into. I only have Internet on my phone, so it's a bit herder for me. I just have this information because it's what I have gathered since the beginning.

Michigan State University is headed by a former infectious disease doctor. He got his position about 1-2 weeks after the first day of lockdowns here. He has REQUIRED China Virus testing every two weeks for students on campus since this started and will continue through at LEAST next fall of 2022.

The only students allowed on campus to do hybrid classes were for lab classes like the hard sciences during spring of 2020, summer 2020, and fall of 2020. This was so they could still graduate on time. This spring they added a few more hybrid options, which expanded the testing-pool since the two week testing is still in place.

Next fall 50% of classes will be hybrid and 25% are online-only (lecture hall style classes are the ones forbidden from returning to normal). An email went out about a month ago to students REQUIRING ALL students for their first two years at MSU (even for transfer students) to live in the dorms (minus people above a certain age or 2 other very narrow exemptions). He claims it's because students get better grades that way (ignoring how the significant drop in gpa is due to MANDATORY online classes that HE ordered but he won't admit fault and let students choose for themselves). We all know sicknesses travel at light speed through the dorms.

He knows due to his prior career experience how these China Virus tests work exactly. He knows how the medical system works. He has a large group of test subjects now (students and faculty) that will basically do whatever he orders because people need their degrees/paychecks (for various reasons/motivations, please don't derail by arguing they don't need the degree. They're being exploited and that's the important part here.). He's dragging out the slow return to campus capacity because as the virus goes around and people get immunity, false positives that he's farming from students won't be able to sustain the illusion of Michigan getting hit hard. The people who haven't gotten the virus yet will have a staggered return, get the virus naturally, and test positive. Objective accomplished: People think the virus boogyman is still horrible in the area.

Last time I checked a month or two ago, MSU was responsible for Ingham county's covid cases by about 50%. This guy is basically scamming everybody single-handed and they're eating it up.

Michigan's numbers are high due to corruption, and I don't mean just due to Whitmer.