At all the universities around here faculty, staff, and students are supposed to wear their masks at all times in the presence of others, irrespective of the ability to remain six feet apart (an example of UB's policies). My wife has to give lecture through a mask. It's greatly inconvenient for all involved, but a necessary precaution.
ianw said:
Maybe it's different where you are but here I'm not seeing people wearing masks for a fraction of a day nevermind a whole one.
Unfortunately, mask compliance is less than perfect and social distancing even worse. Many, perhaps the majority of universities here aren't going to make it through the semester without going online only due to case numbers that are already starting to pass state mandated thresholds. UB, the example I gave above, is almost certainly going to shut down by the end of this coming week...too many people not taking things seriously.
I think the plan here is for schools to use them in transit in corridors (not sure about unis) - each year is it's own bubble. They are also encouraging distancing and going full on with hand washing and no sharing of stuff/playing any games that involve handling the same objects.
Here it seems generally a mixed bag some people are still in full on protection mode others seem to have given up with the majority probably somewhere on a sliding scale in the middle.