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I heard that during the 1918 flu pandemic, Middlebury College students stayed on campus. Why can’t we stay?

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I heard that during the 1918 flu pandemic, Middlebury College students stayed on campus. Why can’t we stay?

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Based on local historical accounts of Middlebury in 1918: ·There was a far smaller student body at the time ·Survival depended on quarantine under martial law, which is not a likely scenario today ·The nation did not have the benefit of the ability to prepare alternatives ·Frankly, they were probably lucky that the quarantine worked and that the virus did not get into the dorms.