The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/masks/)
With half of Cornell’s on-campus students getting vaccinated, the University has relaxed certain distancing restrictions — allowing vaccinated students to gather in small groups without masks.
An acquaintance was once someone who you could run into as you rush through Ho Plaza on your way to class and chat, or attempt to catch up with over the roar of a frat party’s Spotify playlist. Maybe they were even a friend of a friend, or an ally when you frantically needed help on your problem set the night it’s due. Without these relatively inconsequential interactions, Cornell’s campus is no longer a community of interconnections, but a set of isolated bubbles. An unfortunate, but not unexpected consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic lasting as long as it has is the death of an entire class of friends. The loss of the acquaintance is just another symptom of the loss of the campus space and sense of community we’ve experienced over the last year.
I couldn’t tell what caused it initially, but everyone was sexier when I came back to campus after an endless summer of quarantine. Certainly some of this was attributed to my pent-up isolation lust, but there was an added x-factor that really churned my butter. Never before have I thought such a vast number of people were attractive as I twiddled my thumbs, six-feet-apart, in the arrival test line. That is, until I recollected my childhood crushes: Zorro, the Phantom of the Opera, Mrs. Incredible, and Hannibal Lecter. All of them wore masks.
“Mask-wearing can be framed by some people as a means to protect themselves, their loved ones and their communities from this disease, while other people frame mask-wearing as an infringement on their rights and an unnecessary response to the risk,” Schulze said.
In March, everyone had to make a sudden addition to their daily wardrobe: masks. As students and professors prepare to enter the lecture hall, masks and physical distancing will be the norm, so what masks should students wear?
Although classes being conducted by Cornell’s Prison Education Program have been put on hold, the organization has shifted their focus to making sure inmates are provided with proper health equipment during the pandemic.
Although classes being conducted by Cornell’s Prison Education Program have been put on hold, the organization has shifted their focus to making sure inmates are provided with proper health equipment during the pandemic.
The mandate comes from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) executive order — announced in a Wednesday press conference — which requires all people in New York State to cover their mouth and nose when in public and in close proximity to others.
The measure mandates that people wear face coverings in public settings where maintaining six-feet of social distancing is difficult, such as public transportation, parks, grocery stores or pharmacies.
With nationwide shortages of personal protective equipment, members across the Cornell community are contributing to the pandemic effort.