I work in a unit that runs a web site and we were all sent home early in the pandemic. Students came back the academic year after that but I think we had only two staffers from my unit who were authorized to come back to the office that year.

In that time frame Cornell kept in-person instruction running, they were testing all students twice a week.

My unit returned to the office last summer, they restarted instruction with most students being tested on a once weekly schedule. There was a panic early in the semester with the delta variant being brought in by incoming students so we had strict mask requirements both indoors and dense outdoor situations.

Throughout most of the fall 2021 semester both Cornell and Tompkins County were testing about 5000 people a day, Tompkins was getting about 50 positives a day, Cornell more like 5.

At the end of the semester we had the Omicron outbreak that was featured on CNN. Myself I have very little contact with undergraduates at all, my unit has only a handful of interns, once in a while I talk to undergraduates waiting in line for food or at the library or something.

I've tried to sort out the social hierarchy of frats and sororities by how expensive the cars are in the parking lots are but other than that I know nothing at all about their partying habits.

My son and I almost went to that anime convention at the Javits Center which had an Omicron outbreak but couldn't get tickets for Saturday so we settled for going to the comic-con in Scranton (in an equally overdense environment that seems outright cruel to the socially awkward attendees, some of whom we saw cowering under tables.) Looking back we're glad we didn't go because I bet attendees of that convention spread the virus all over the Northeast.