03-02-2023, 07:25 PM
mrbigstuff wrote:
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Not sure how the system worked at MSU, but it's a cumbersome one elsewhere that requires lots of effort to actually work as intended by campus authorities. When everyone needs a green dot just to come on campus, buy lunch at the commons, enter a dorm or a classroom, the whole process eventually gets broken by its own weight.
Good to go!
It didn't work anything like that at MSU and doesn't seem to me like it was a particularly severe burden.
No green dots. If you were a student, you had to show proof of vaccination (or a valid reason not to) to enroll. Likewise, faculty and staff had to be vaccinated as a condition of employment.
I'm familiar with a university that is a fraction of the size of MSU and it has been a serious burden for them to keep track of all the comings and goings and who is and is not vaccinated. They have more or less given up except for the students and faculty. There is a ton of administrative infrastructure
to keep up if you're intent on policing everyone.
If they're trying to keep track of everyone coming and going, then of course it would be an administrative burden. MSU does it by big-picture policies. They can control their students and staff, but don't try to control access for the general public. When 15K people show up for a basketball game, they're not checking vaccination status individually.