Students Are Ordered Not to Eat at Local Restaurants – Opinion

If you’re planning to attend Yale soon, you might want to invest in a dorm room refrigerator.

You may also consider purchasing lots of Capri Suns and Brown Paper Sacks.

As it turns out, you’re likely to often be packing your lunch.

Yale Daily News reported that the Ivy League college is trying to protect its members by directing them to avoid eating at local restaurants.

A Facebook page shared guidelines for students looking to have a great spring experience.

Yale announced plans to start spring semester via an email sent in the afternoon. The students are allowed to return anytime between January 14 and February 4. Students must remain in quarantine at their homes (with the exception of picking up food or testing) until receiving results from an arrival test. Yale established a campus quarantine from February 7th to protect students (which could be extended depending upon public health).

Eating out will be prohibited — anywhere in the off-campus area:

Except for curbside pickup, students are not allowed to visit New Haven restaurants or businesses. You can grab and go until the public health situation improves. Yale is currently set to resume in-person classes on Feb. 7 — after two weeks of remote instruction.

It’s a bold choice, generating social media responses from “Yale would be better off shutting its doors completely…than subjecting…students to this level of tyranny” to “This is ****ing insane.”

This is also our modern way of thinking.

In America, there was once a period when highly-survivable illnesses were accepted as part of everyday life. The cold season was upon us and people decided that it was okay to face any potential germs.

But these days, “risk” is a four-letter word. To maintain an infection-free existence, people must avoid having a normal life.

Of course, the country’s current foe is no common biological bane. If regulations and observed practices are to be taken seriously, we must conclude COVID’s quite the trickster.

Miraculously, SARS-CoV-2 is much more transmissible at night — hence curfews. Previously, submicroscopic infectious agents didn’t even own a watch.

At eateries, the malady is often magically maimed: If you’re in possession of liquid in a glass, the virus has evidently agreed not to act out. If your server is able to make wrought rolls for you, even if there aren’t any drinks yet, it will be possible to go naked without worrying. Such is suggested by establishments’ masking rules.

In many cities, if you’ve been vaccinated — though that in no way prohibits contraction or transmission — you can gather with needled neighbors at large events. Your efforts will likely be respected by the virus.

But most incredible of all, COVID apparently doesn’t affect government officials. That appears the only explanation for those who’ve ordered us to stay covered and quarantined eschewing the rules themselves.

Liberal leadership is most pertinent in CA’s Animal Farm. @GavinNewsomFrench Laundry is his signature restaurant. While @CA_EDDGavin was eating with lobbyists while citizens reeled. Gavin sent $11 billion in fraudulent checks, and Gavin was also sending fraudsters $11B. pic.twitter.com/TUIIVCbOKp

— Ken Broad (@Metis65) January 5, 2022





Given COVID’s apparent permissiveness where food and drink are involved, Yale’s policy seems all the more perplexing.

But the school isn’t your run-of-the-mill chance-taker; it’s ahead of the curve where safety is concerned.

Case in point: In May of 2020, a Yale professor protectively warned that Donald Trump was “awfully close to genocide” with his “mass death” pandemic policy.

Recently, the college even guarded its students’ The emotional health — by altering a near-century old sculpture. This piece depicted a Pilgrim with a sword and bow presenting his musket to an American Indian.

In case the white man was pointing his gun at the other — which he possibly was not — Yale disarmed the New World settler.

Still, there are some instances, evidently, where the university doesn’t sweat the small stuff — like death by murder for some:

Yale Medical School Welcomes Psychiatrist Who Dreams of ‘Unloading a Revolver Into the Head of Any White Person’ https://t.co/pLlgF7JIYB

— RedState (@RedState) June 5, 2021

Some races are able to take the plunge, but it’s better that this projectile not be eaten in a local eatery.

And don’t misunderstand — according to the school’s instructive email, students must “follow these guidelines whether [they] live on campus or off.”

It sounds like elite education’s readying for another banner year.

-ALEX

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