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In an age where it is apparently ok to separate young children from their families and incarcerate them I find it incredibly tone deaf to complain that asking typically "privileged" (45% white, median family income $192k) students to follow some simple health and safety rules and not throw or attend large parties is somehow now "inhumane".
The letter (initially written by professors from Johns Hopkins and Harvard) is addressed to university administrations across the country, for one thing. For another, university administrations might consider the opinions of university faculty; DHS is for now likely to say, "talk to the hand."
Social isolation doesn't become less inhumane because other people are even worse off.
Having to restrain yourself and your whimsical desire to attend a party is not "social isolation".
It boggles the mind how you're trying so hard to make a mountain out of a molehill while at the same time downplaying human rights violations targeting children.
You're the one downplaying human rights violations, calling the human need for human contact "whimsical desire to attend a party". I don't consider either the violations of children's rights nor the ones the article is about even remotely acceptable.