Well, we do have to stay safe out there. We're in a pandemic.

It amuses me that my rave groups already did contact tracing for respiratory illnesses before the pandemic and perhaps because of the large Asian friend group I’m part of we wore masks in more normal contexts when we had a cold.

To be honest, most of the people designing the interventions are just generally short of mental horsepower and strong in self-belief. So they come up with novel approaches that aren’t really required. The fact that there are students who aren’t pro-social on campus complicated things but that’s a self-imposed problem.

It can’t be helped: this is what happens with The Sort. If they were smarter they wouldn’t be college admins.