[Scotswife]

I’m not sure what good it does to shut down schools and “disinfect” them.
Once the doors are re-opened and all the people return to the building, by the end of the 1st day all the regular germs, viruses and bacteria are back again.

[VOA]

I’m not sure what good it does to shut down schools and “disinfect” them.

Amongst all the other professions I don't play on TV, I'm also
not an epidemiologist or public health advisor.

Closing all 23 schools on a school day sounds like a number of
factors coming together:

1. The school district's lawyers said "Do it or run the risk of
a potential lawsuit...or class-action lawsuit if more than one
child gets MRSA. Or their parents are traumatized by the POSSIBILITY
of a bogey-man in their kids' school."

2. Probably an extra day off for unionized teachers (and no
need to "make up" because it's an "emergency")

But...if what happens in Mid-Missouri during an unscheduled
half-day off due to a September heat-wave (because not all
schools have A/C is any indicator...
a lot of parents will be ticked when they need to find out
"who the h-ll is taking care of our kids if the school is closed?"

[goodnesswins]

Yeah....it’s ON THE PEOPLE, isn’t it?