Do you understand what's going on? The federal government is ordering all these closures behind the scenes. To avoid panic they are having states and businesses announce them themselves. They are trying to avoid the worst case scenario...which with this virus is a whole bunch of people getting critically ill at the same time and overwhelming the medical system.
This is not the flu. It's deadlier than the flu. It causes more critical illness than the flu and it's more virulent than the flu.
“The federal government is ordering all these closures behind the scenes.”
This is a good point. The schools can’t make these kinds of decisions on their own. It’s a boss, asking their boss, asking their boss, all the way up to the fed govt.
Unlike the Flu, children rarely get it or show symptoms, with deaths mainly being that of the aged and infirm - esp. those in quarantine such as nursing homes, as it apparently is more contagious than the flu which did kill 80,000 Americans (2018).