If a pandemic was here, then one place that's vulnerable is a college or university. The close proximity, the lack of good hygiene, the poor diet, the carefree attitude, the many social gatherings, the diverse student population meeting regularly, the distance from the school to home, the lack of security, all of these things make them very suceptible to a pandemic.

Because they're very young and using social media, you'd definitely expect a lot of tweets, pics posted, leaks back home, the spread of disease along interstates as people tried to get home, the difficulty in feeding them during a crisis, it would be very bad to be in a university during one.

In rural towns and urban centers, there's people who have skills that would help those folks cope versus the university population. Not so in an educational setting for the most part. Some of the engineering professors could really help. Chemists too. If they had a graduate medical program, then those people would know things and could tend the sick. The others? I doubt it. Russian lit doesn't exactly help you.

A lot of universities work with the city police, and might even have a branch on campus, but there's minimal weapons there for protection and a high percentage of young beautiful women. Scary, very scary. I hope it doesn't happen.

People could easily be trapped in large cities where they're located, and then not be able to get home. Then they also wouldn't be able to raise food on-site. They wouldn't have the tools or the materials. It's bad all around.

They do have strength, but a lot have no skills whatsoever, bad attitudes, have no practical experience, don't know anything that might help them unless from farms.