That is a good point about breaks. Cancelling live class at Stanford may just well ensure they the students go to the mall, gym, club, restaurant, friends house. Etc.
I can see where cancelling a major sporting event might reduce person to person contacts.
But classes and work, not so sure.
Exactly. Iran got burned by that.
They canceled school in Teheran, and then the parents took their kids on vacations all over the country, spreading the infection everywhere.
It is one reason that today Iran is the world’s leading CV dumpster fire.