"An alarming number of the midshipmen getting sick now are on their second bout of COVID."
That is a bit concerning. That might suggest that multiple variants are infecting mids. Lots of opportunities for mingling of virus variants to produce more mutations (hopefully the aggressive iso will prevent this). Anne Arundel County has the highest infection rate in Maryland right now. Until (and perhaps after) the mids get vaccinated, they could represent a community vector of concern. I suspect there won't be any more off-Yard liberty for quite some time, if at all, this term. My Youngster is in decent spirits, doing okay, and not in iso, although "his plebe" was infected. His only complaint is that he can't lift weights. But he said he hasn't seen morale so low as it is now, especially among 2023 (more so than the plebes) - some talk about DOR. Probably too much time filled with complaining (which itself can be contagious - makes me think of the locker-room power-of-positive-thinking lecture in "The Natural"). It's a leadership challenge.