None of what I said was directed towards any particular poster, although I did quote a few people.
As for who I am mad at:
So, you see, I’ve actually stated who I’m pissed at in several of my posts. Also “pissed” is a tame word for how furious I am. A third of a million people dead in the US, thousands (we don’t know how many) left damaged/maimed, and it didn’t have to be this bad!
Covid 19 is now killing more people a day in the US than any other cause. That is on Americans, no one else. It didn’t have to be that bad and that is why I am absolutely furious.
I do wonder if this’ll affect her being accepted by a med school… she needs to do that, then be accepted into a resident program, then a hospital/practice.
I mean, I’d be reading her application a few years from now and thinking “THAT Skylar Mack? Hmmm, should we choose her over a student who hasn’t had a cushy life, someone who’s worked hard and learned to follow all the rules, and has a respect for public health?”
Well, maybe Skylar might actually learn something from the experience. Even better, might even learn the correct lesson from the experience. Stranger things have happened.
More likely, though, she’ll go back to being a privileged, selfish little bitch.
I would love to know 1) how many “pre-med” Freshmen actually go to Med school, or even into medicine at all and 2) how many admitted med school students were Pre-med their first day of college.
A freshman calling themselves “pre-med” is practically meaningless.
Hell yeah, come on, freshman pre-med? Unless you came in with a whole damn lot of AP, a freshman is pre-everything-and-anything.
In the advisory and informational material of every country’s consular service, and in all responsible publications about travel, there is a part where the language can be distilled all the way down to: Their country, THEIR laws.
Last time I crossed a border, I forgot to declare on the customs form the bag of dried fruit trail mix in my carry-on bag. I approached the customs official and with great shame confessed my contraband.
So no, I’m not exactly filled with pity for this lawbreaker.
I believe the punishment is excessive but I have a hard time mustering up any sympathy for the reasons you outlined above. This wasn’t a mistake on the young woman’s part, she made a deliberate decision to flout the rules set in place to protect everyone during a pandemic. Four months is a short period of time it’s a relatively minor disruption to her life in the grand scheme of things. So she misses a semester and maybe graduates a little later than expected? Hardly her life being torn away from her as her father puts it.
I have no sympathy for her. It’s not like she suddenly found out that she was missing some once in a lifetime opportunity and made a stupid snap decision. She had to know before she went about the mandatory quarantine. She also had to know that her boyfriend would be competing during that time and she wouldn’t be able to attend. She went to a foreign country planning to break the law. This was not a snap decision of a stupid teenager; this was a premeditated crime. She and her parents think she is above the law. Now is the time for her to learn that she isn’t that special. She should be down on her knees thanking the officials who only are making her serve 36 days.
This is a very good point. She knew coming in that she would have her movements restricted for 14 days. She ignored that, and actually took off the tracking bracelet that was a condition of her quarantine.
The punishment has to be harder than if she had complied with the restriction she voluntarily accepted, and wilfully ignored.
When I was in university, Cayman Islands were where the pre-med students who didn’t get accepted into US med schools went. I’m just guessing that’s probably not a viable option for her now.
I visited the Caymans a few years ago. Beautiful and interesting place, and I’d happily go back. Anyway, point is, during one taxi ride, my girlfriend and I noticed a big building that didn’t seem to fit the area, and asked the driver. He said it was the medical school where all the foreigners came to learn how to be doctors, and then he smirked.
We thought he was chuckling about people who come to a tropical paradise for an education, but looking up the school later (St Matthew or St Michael or something), it turns out it was a notoriously crappy college that soaks its students for high tuition and sends them out with a subpar education.
Anyone who’s pursuing a medical degree there is probably a maroon with more money than sense.
She willfully tampered with a device intended she complied with the law and stayed quarantined. 4 weeks seems like the appropriate punishment for violating quarantine; tampering should go above and beyond that.
It’s too bad she’s not getting $40,000 or so in fines for her mommy and daddy to pay.