Well, no one could see this coming: Liberty University, which reopened after its spring break this month despite a raging global pandemic, is now full of sick students.
in science and the power of disease, reopened his Lynchburg, Virginia University last week, despite the fact that universities all over the country have shuttered and sent students home in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. Not Falwell, who repeatedly asserted that covid-19 was an effort to “destroy the American economy” and damage Trump’s reputation.says, where they presumably ate together, slept in dorms together, and touched all the same surfaces .
“If I were them, I’d be more nervous,” he told theOf course, the problem with Liberty University stretches beyond the school itself. Virginia has several hundred confirmed cases of covid-19, including one in Lynchburg, and state and local officials werefurious that Falwell invited students back to the dorms, a move that endangered local residents as much as the students themselves.
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