We are proud to announce the 2020 Grinch of the Year award to the University of Florida Board of Trustees (BoT) for their hard and unrelenting support of the rampant spread of COVID-19 at the number 5 public university in the nation! UF is currently number 2 in the nation for college COVID-19 cases but, with the strong support from the BoT, we are confident that we will reach number 1 status soon!
The BoT probably deserves this award every year, but they’ve really outdone themselves in 2020. No one could ever do justice and accurately describe the callousness and open disregard for human life that the BoT has shown since the pandemic began back in March. Their accomplishments include:
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Pushing to hold in-person classes in the Spring that endangers the lives of everyone in the Gainesville community.
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Open disrespect and lack of support for faculty, staff, and students.
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Pushing through measures to have attendees at UF athletic events, which included forcing through measures that ignore health professionals’ advice on best practices.
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Continued deflection of responsibility for managing the pandemic away from the institution and onto individuals (see: that useless pledge they encouraged UF community members to sign).
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Abysmally insufficient testing, isolation, and quarantine procedures and resources available to students and staff.
“I’m really proud that the UF BoT has followed in my footsteps,” said Typhoid Mary. “I had expected leaders to listen to the science, at least on par with the 1920s” she continued.
“UF President Fuchs gave UF workers a big bah humbug this Christmas,” said Ebenezer Scrooge. “I could almost hear myself saying ‘if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’ when the UF denied 68% of UF faculty ADA accommodation requests to not teach in-person classes” he went on.
“At first we were upset that we didn’t win the Grinch of the Year award, but after reading about the actions of Mori Hosseini and the rest of the Board of Trustees I understand,” said Harry and Marv the infamous Wet Bandits who are known for breaking into houses around Christmas time and harassing clever 8-year-olds. “We know what it means to ruin someone’s holiday, we do it all the time but we’re just destroying families’ material possessions. The Board of Trustees is destroying lives. The people lost to COVID-19 can’t be replaced.” they continued.
The ACLC voted on the Grinch of the Year Award at our general membership meeting on December 8th. We will present this award to Chair Mori Hosseini at the next in-person Board of Trustees meeting.