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Beats getting quarantined.

They might still get quarantined. Given the state of testing in the US, who knows if few days from now they won't discover there was a carrier on the campus.

> who knows if few days from now they won't discover there was a carrier on the campus.

And by that time, most of the student body (with who knows how many asymptomatic carriers) will have been widely dispersed.

I'm guessing part of the rationale is that there is no way to contain this in the US. It's going to go around. But, spreading it out in time and space will reduce the chance that local health infrastructure will become saturated, resulting in more deaths. Basically hospital load-balancing.

Spreading it out in time and space fuels exponential growth, where you might contain it to slow growth through social distancing.

But you've got to get people out of environments where it is going to spread extremely quickly, like communal living in dorms, just the same.

If I'm a poor student without a place to go I can imagine being quarantined in your dorm room with WiFi is not so bad at all.

That's not an option.

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