“I started teaching a face-to-face course earlier this month,” a colleague says plaintively. “But then two students got sick, and of course it terrified everybody else, so we were forced to move the class online.”
“Wait!” the Dean exclaims. “Two students got sick? Why wasn’t I informed?? When did they test positive??”
“Well, they didn’t test positive for COVID,” the professor explained. “They had seasonal allergies. But still.”