You just can’t make up this stuff! 95% of Harvard University’s students, and 96% of its staff, are vaccinated against COVID-19, but this happened anyway. From CNBC:

Harvard Business School temporarily moves some MBA classes online to curb Covid outbreak

by Robert Towey | Monday, September 27, 2021 | 1:19 PM EDT | Updated

• Harvard Business School is switching to remote learning through Oct. 3 to try to suppress the virus, which is mostly infecting the university’s fully vaccinated graduate students.
• The university is requesting that students avoid unmasked indoor events, group travel and gathering with anyone outside their households.
• The business school is also mandating Covid testing three times a week for all students regardless of vaccination status.

Harvard Business School moved all in-person classes for first-year MBA and some second-year students online this week, and increased its Covid-19 testing requirements to try to curb a recent surge in breakthrough cases on campus.

The school, located in Boston, is switching to remote learning through Oct. 3 to try to suppress the virus, which is mostly infecting the university’s fully vaccinated graduate students, according to the institution’s website. Roughly 95% of the university’s students and 96% of its staff are vaccinated. More than 1,000 students are enrolled in the business school’s class of 2023.

“Contact tracers who have worked with positive cases highlight that transmission is not occurring in classrooms or other academic settings on campus,” business school spokesman Mark Cautela said in a statement. “Nor is it occurring among individuals who are masked.”

Really? The virus is completely invisible, save under a microscope, and while ‘contact tracers’ can guesstimate when someone might have contracted the virus, they don’t know and can’t know. They are crediting their safety protocols, and apparently blaming other situations, but they don’t actually know anything.

Cautela added that the university is requesting that students avoid unmasked indoor events, group travel and gathering with anyone outside their households.

There’s more at the original.

The article points out that facemasks had been mandatory in all Harvard indoor settings, which would include all classes.

So, in a situation in which as high a percentage of the population as one could ever reasonably expect to be vaccinated is vaccinated, and in which everyone is and has been required to wear face masks indoors, the virus is still spreading. From the oh-so-serious Harvard Crimson:

‘We Are a Complete Outlier’: HBS Moves Some Classes Online Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

By Claire H. Guo and Christine Mui, Crimson Staff Writers | Monday, September 27, 2021

Harvard Business School moved classes for all first-year and some second-year MBA students online for a week beginning Monday, following a spike in Covid-19 cases the school attributed to off-campus social gatherings.

In an email to all MBA students on Thursday, four HBS administrators wrote that the school has counted 121 cases among MBA students since July 1, with close to 60 students in isolation that day. First-year students made up roughly 75 percent of those positive cases.

“We are a complete outlier among Harvard schools in our numbers. MBA students comprise roughly 9% of the student population at the University, but have accounted for more than two-thirds of total student cases in September. Our positivity rate is 12 times that of the rest of Harvard,” wrote HBS Dean Srikant M. Datar, Executive Dean for Administration Angela Q. Crispi, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs Jana P. Kierstead, and Senior Associate Dean Jan W. Rivkin.

The University’s Covid-19 dashboard shows that over the past seven days, 60 of the 74 positive reported cases have been graduate students.

“These distressing figures are so high that they have attracted the scrutiny of local public health officials. Our community can and must do better,” the email continued, urging students to halt all unmasked, indoor social activities.

There’s more at the original, including the statement that Business School administrators wrote that there’s something about the way that HBS personnel interact that makes the people therein more likely to contract the virus. As in, acting like human beings?

“We sincerely believe that every student group is one event away from an outbreak cluster like those we’ve begun to see,” the school leaders wrote Thursday.

Translation: don’t act like human beings, don’t interact with each other, and for God’s sake, don’t fornicate.

We have been told that vaccination is the way out of this polidemic^[1]A polidemic is a pandemic with a strong political component. No, don’t look it up; I coined the word myself., yet, in an almost fully vaccinated community, they are seeing ‘breakthrough’ cases among the fully vaccinated, who have been interacting primarily with other fully vaccinated people. The vaccinated are transmitting the virus to the vaccinated!

If, in a 95% vaccinated community, in which indoor mask wearing is mandated, the virus is spreading, one has to ask: what more can they do, mandate masks outdoors as well, and require everyone to stay two meters apart? Thank God that the General Assembly restricted Governor Andy Beshear’s (D-KY) authority on this, because he’d probably try to impose such restrictions! He has already whined, “If I had the ability to do it right now, we would have a masking order when you are in public and indoors.”

Yet, in a nearly fully vaccinated population, entirely populated by neat, clean Harvard graduate students, with that public and indoor mask mandate in place, the virus is still spreading. Why, it’s almost as though everything the experts have been telling us has been wrong!