When Alyssa Matias stopped her car at the Jefferson and Hoover crosswalk, she wasn’t expecting to see an overpacked Rock and Reilly in the middle of the afternoon with no mask in sight. Passing a bit in front of the bar where USC Crosswalk Symptoms read “United We Stop COVID,” he saw teams of academics heading to USC Village, with many breaches of mask protection orders.
Matias, a sophoate student with a political science elementary school, is preparing to move to her USC housing assignment at Cowlings and Ilium Residential College this week, but founded on her pleasure of visiting campus for her on-campus paintings and behavior in the area, she said that academics did not comply with the rules of protection and fitness during the pandemic.
Between August 15 and 29, the positivity rate for coronavirus among academics increased from 3.6% to 27.5%, according to a Student Health update tuesday.Between 24 and 27 August, only 104 academics tested positive for COVID-19, Director General of Health, Dr. .Sarah Van Orman said at a press conference last Thursday, and the number of cases has only increased since then.While some academics have strayed from the threat and continue to organize and attend parties and meetings on campus, others turned to social media to ask their peers to act selfishly and forget about security measures.
Matias is frustrated to see that some academics continue to violate public fitness rules, while other academics and network members act in the most productive interests of their family, friends, and everyone around them.
“Surely you can tell when you get to campus who takes this seriously and who doesn’t,” Matias said.”But what displeases me is that this virus disproportionately affects certain other people’s computers and those other people aren’t the only ones partying or collecting COVID.”
Origins of propagation
In housing complexes like University Gateway, student meetings and parties have been taking place since academics moved in.Large social gatherings taking place in the community. At Apartamentos Lorenzo, a “Party of the Quarantine Balcony” organized through heritage control on August 21 in which the invitation to citizens discussed a capacity of forty-five people.
Julia McGowan, a sophomore with a major in theater, has witnessed the large gatherings of more than 30 citizens three times since moving to Gateway in mid-August.While she and her roommate walked to the laundry through Gateway’s outer corridors, she said she saw some other giant collecting where the top citizens were not dressed in masks.When McGowan took pictures of academics and posted them on Snapchat, one of them shouted, “Take a video, it’s going to last longer.”
In an email to citizens on August 24, Gateway issued a mandatory mask in all non-unusual areas, adding the yard, garage, hallways and rooftop terraces; a construction staff official said it would be “closely monitored.”Elevators would also be limited to a family compatible with the holidays and no more than 4 more people at a time.Email did not imply that they had an effect on citizens who would not respect existence.
Despite the advice, McGowan said that not all scholars wore a mask in the complex.When they climbed an empty elevator, about 8 citizens jumped to the next floor, dressed in only 3 masks, he said.
“If they propagate COVID and reach a surface, it’s us,” McGowan said.”Do what you have to do until it’s me.”I feel it’s a philosophy that other people support, but in the end, it may be much faster than you think when you are in tight neighborhoods.”
In an interview with the Daily Trojan, the head of the Department of Public Safety, John Thomas, said he had met with Gateway’s control over giant meetings that took positions and ran with staff to help the university and city empower students.
Gateway and Lorenzo Apartments responded to comment requests.
However, meetings of giant and giant students were also held in off-campus homes, adding to 28th Street, which houses more than 23 fraternity and sorority houses.During the summer, forty-five positive cases of coronavirus were connected to fraternities in The Row.
Andrew Hulin, a senior at Iovine and Young Academy, has only dated his roommates and friends who have lived in a nearby apartment on Menlo Avenue since returning to USC.Through his window, he saw academics betting beer pong in his garden or throwing parties without mask or social estrangement.
On August 27, Hulin posted a photo of more than 10 academics playing beer pong on a lawn.He said he took the photo the day before the games started and posted it to draw attention to the type of pickup that can lead to a construction in the cases.
Many of his colleagues, Hulin said, have no respect for the network surrounding the USC campus.Instead of following the rules of protection for each and every one, he said they endangered the citizens of the South Center every time they celebrated while proceeding to ordinary local businesses and restaurants.
“When you look down the street and see everyone [on] the north campus doing those wild outdoor parties,” he said.”It’s like, I don’t know, it makes you need to shake them, like, “Why don’t you see how close we are to the rest of L.A.?”
However, giant collections are not the only cause of coronavirus spread.In a community-wide email on August 24, Van Orman wrote that “every interaction in which you percentageally touch or remove your face, can pose a threat to you and your friends, “adding small collections.If there is a user in the collection who has contracted the virus, the participant, especially if they are nearby, is at risk of exposure and spread.
Sophomore Grace Oh, who specializes in business administration, said she had been exposed to 3 other people who tested positive for coronavirus.He said he spent time with small teams of friends and would try to wear a mask most of the time, but he finished.socialize directly with at least thirteen people in addition to their roommates.
“This is what I will do in the future …number one, no more hugs. I’ll see to make sure the maximum time I’m out, ” said Oh.”Just be more attentive to dressed in a mask and be proactive about who I see.”
McGowan, who also attended a small rally but said he regretted coming as soon as he arrived, said the challenge is more about academics who continued to attend major events.
“People will make mistakes,” said McGowan.Es more the fact that the other people who have been at Gateway have shown no regret for that.it’s not just like an ‘OK mistake, we just got back to school, we did something stupid, we learned our lesson, we don’t do it anymore because it’s continuous and consistent.’
Since safer housing orders began in Los Angeles County and California, Cherise Cayetano, who has a weakened immune system, has only left her home when it’s probably necessary.Since the pandemic began, Cayetano has only visited the campus once and has ventured to USC Village since the semester began because it needs to increase its threat to contract the virus.
Although she has left her home a little, Cayetano is frustrated through posts on Twitter and Instagram that appear academics at giant meetings.
Is it so vital that you literally have to occupy a safe area for others?” said Cayetano, a senior in law, history and culture.other people around you? I don’t get it.
Lack of disciplinary action
Prior to living in his current home, Cayetano resided at Parkside Apartments, where he appealed to stay after college attended online courses in March, citing USC Housing’s weakened immune formula and the fact that his parents were older and at risk of contracting the virus.Cayetano was rejected in the first place. It was only after another housing representative reviewed his record that Cayetano was able to stay.With an increase in cases among academics, Cayetano sees a similar situation this semester, with the University asking academics to leave.your accommodation on campus.
Cayetano continued to face housing unrest over the summer, when the university first announced a hybrid style for the categories in June, then abandoned the plan in July, after Cayetano and many other academics paid rent for their off-campus leases.
“They deserve never sent this email to bring us back when they hadn’t even received Permission from Array County. L.A., ” said Cayetano.Students who are not in the state, so many low-income first-generation students, there are so many resources that many other people just don’t have, and my biggest concern is that THE USC will say “and it will happen” when other people don’t even have a home or cash to pass the house.”
Rachel Sanchez, a primary school student in sociology, said she reported on a grass party with more than 20 academics at the DPS on August 22.Officers arrived at the scene, but said he didn’t know what had happened to the academics as a result.of the safety instructions for the rupture. Sanchez, who also reported online rape, said he was looking to make the university more transparent about the consequences of academics.
“I am very disappointed and saddened to see that [academics] are not only put at risk, but also put the network at risk,” Sanchez said.”USC academics who don’t come from South Central Los Angeles, we’re visitors in a network, and breaking the regulations of social estrangement, no masks, partying, just surrounded by other people who are not in your direct social bubble or in your apartment, home, anywhere you live, for me.message to the network we’re occupying that we don’t care about you.
According to DPS crime records, 14 parties that have been closed have been classified as “Loud and noisy noise” since August 14, plus a non-criminal incident report that cited many others who did not take into account social estrangement protocols.In an interview with the Daily Trojan, Thomas said that while the DPS has no jurisdiction to oppose meetings that take positions within housing complexes, the city attorney told the branch that in cases of “chronic or repetitive” meetings, academics Articles 8.77 and 8.78 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code may be found guilty.Property managers may also be cited under this crime.
However, quotes have been posted opposing those rallies, Thomas said.
Matias believes that labeling giant demonstrations and parties as court cases about noise serves as a “camouflage” for the genuine explanation of why the festivities are closed.He also stated that if the demonstrations were conducted through black and Latino students, DPS officials would have no challenge.End the parties or take disciplinary action.
“There were pre-COVID parties where … there was a white student party more commonly, then across the street there was a party with black and Latino students more commonly.Immediately, the party with other people of color stops, then the other one goes well, ” said Matthias.”I feel that there is also a double popularity when it comes to FINAL COVID rallies.I can’t help even to think that if there were those meetings with minority students, they would also be closed and, those consequences that the University is talking about, I have the impression that they would be practiced because we haven’t realized all this until now.
Vice President of Student Affairs Winston Crisp said a handful of party-hosting academics were threatened with the possible loss of TrojanCheck, their entry campus pass, or suspension, but academics are a pleasant disciplinary action.
While a committee that added to the Office of Student Affairs and the DPS was formed on the steps that would be taken against academics, Crisp said it was highly unlikely that all academics attending a party were punished.and warn schoolchildren to group into teams and not distance the hell or wear masks.
“I do not wish to give other people the impression that, one way or another, we have the ability or the ability to go after all the academics who come to a party, even if they know they are not meant to, and put them on.” “Crisp says.” We’re not looking to set up or create some kind of environment, Big Brother or some kind of environment, you know, but we want other people to take the public fitness emergency very seriously. “
However, if the committee determines that hosts of a routine party or meetings organize meetings, Crisp stated that academics may be responsible and that committee members will continue to meet with USC Village homeowners, homeowners, and restaurants and outlets to ensure that the criteria are communicated.
Crisp noted that Student Health’s contact search efforts are separate from his committee’s efforts to warn and address rule violators.While Student Health and the committee would possibly discuss the same incident, he said student aptitude officers would never percentage major points as names or reasons for outbreaks with student affairs when seeking contacts.Still, Crisp said that if the source of a group turns out to be a party, the committee will possibly look for hosts to meet with them and talk about regulations and standards.
“I need to be perfectly transparent so that the data they collect in reaction to epidemics of symptoms, consolidation …they are not shared or used in any kind of disciplinary proceedings and will not be,” Crisp said.Let me be transparent, if in the course of this we discover that this is a group and that everyone in the group has appeared, that we can insinuate it and that it turns out to be hinted back to a party, we would possibly be looking to communicate with the other people who organized this party to find out where it came here, etc., to make sure that we do not reproduce.
Andrew Kinoshita, a third-year student with a major in fitness and humanities, said he believed the disciplinary measures described in USC emails had prevented academics from participating in Student Health’s touch-study program for fear of suspension or expulsion.to inspire academics to get tested without worrying about the repercussions.
“I am sensitive to the fact that many scholars who adhere to the orders would like to see the scholars punished,” Kinoshita said.”But the challenge is that for those of us in the neighborhood, even if it is fair to punish the scholars who break these guidelines, they will break the guidelines, whether they are punished or not.The only thing we can expect at this point is for the touch to look for paintings so that neighborhood academics who stick to orders are notified on time.
Matias believes that there will be an explicit review of the University’s procedures that will be followed when academics violate the guidelines of protection, to perceive the consequences of their actions, considering that the virus disproportionately affects other marginalized people and that South Central mainly includes blacks and aboriginals.For others and others of color, he said USC should be more categorical in rebuking academics who break social estrangement mandates to protect the network in which they reside.
Disappearing South Center
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, inequalities in physical care have placed racial and ethnic minority teams at greater threat of contracting and dying from the virus.In a report conducted through National Public Radio on knowledge gathered in 48 states and Washington DC, 50% of cases and 90% of deaths came from communities of color.
Given the presence of DPS in the community surrounding USC, Matthias also said that the same measures are taken to save the student holidays.
“USC has the strength [to take disciplinary action] because they have never been afraid to express that authority, especially with the DPS,” Matías said.”In the past, the DPS has not been afraid to interview other people who actually live in the neighborhood or to express its authority to neighborhood customers.I don’t feel like [USC] deserves to be shy in this age where this kind of authority is needed.I think now more than ever, they deserve to use their authority for the smart ones and it is to break the holidays, bring them back as rallies, endanger the net because that’s what they literally are”.
Cayetano, whose home is close to the campus where her mother resides, said the university expels academics who may be known in images participating in rallies to ensure the protection of academics who adhere to the rules of social estrangement and the surrounding south-central community.
“It’s not an unusual gag that USC really represents the ‘University of South Central’, and I think USC wants to perceive it because that’s where it is,” Cayetano said.”I think you want to start returning your cash to the network you’re retiring from, especially since you’ve already taken so much.”
Cayetano illustrated that non-unusual spaces shared through citizens and south-eastern students, such as grocery stores, can pose fitness hazards to multigenerational families in the region due to increased network outreach among off-campus students.
“Many other people are afraid to go to the store in their own backyard,” Cayetano said.’Let’s say someone says ‘OK, I’m passing by to take one for the team and step to run to Ralphs or Trader Joe is for us.’But then they touch the bad things, they wash their hands, the next thing you know is that the total circle of relatives has COVID.It doesn’t make sense in my head that other people can’t visualize those things that are happening or those things that have happened.I am baffleed, this general disregard for the lives other people have for others.
Cayetano said the USC also provides resources to South Central citizens, such as loose coronavirus tests, especially if it continues to take limited action against academics who put the community in danger.
Cayetano, who was first questioned through friends for not leaving her apartment in March and can no longer believe she entered a public area without dressing in a mask, said she was baffled by privileged and more commonly white academics who continue to forget about the gravity of the situation.Pandemic.. While those academics, if they contracted the virus after attending social gatherings, will be able to pay for the remedy, with hospitalization for uninsured patients at an average of $73,300 according to FAIR Health, low-income academics can’t threaten it, she said.
“If you can’t sense the gravity of the situation, stay home,” Cayetano said.”For what’s the point of risking someone else’s life for your ignorance.So many people complain: “What do we do then, I just need to be able to eat again.Okay, too, but if we all stay calm and surf this wave together, that’s how it’s over, and then we can all be back as general as possible.
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