The Provost's Message to the University of Kansas re: COVID bringing students back to campus for in-person instruction is just jaw-dropping. These documents need to be collected & preserved.

"It is essential because, as Physicist and Chemist Marie Curie said, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

"On Thursday, the Chancellor and I received an email from a senior faculty member who wanted us to know about his first-week experience this fall. He wrote..."

"...I’m sitting in my office after my second live lecture of the semester. My feet hurt, my back is sore, and I am hoarse. I am also happier than I have been since sometime before spring break....It feels amazing to be in front of a classroom again. I could not be more thankful."

AH YES THE TENURED FACULTY MEMBER MISSES TEACHING, EVERYONE BACK TO CLASS!!!!!

Yes, someone sent this to me; yes, people keep DM'ing me with the COVID stats from their institutions that they feel like no one is paying attention to; yes, everyone is going slowly bonkers