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Old Mar 5, 2020 | 8:57 am
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Originally Posted by Visconti
Ok. Should we do this now with 200 reported infections, or wait until we test for 1,000? And, then only in infected areas or everywhere in the Nation?
Do we close the barn door when 1 of 10 horses has escaped, or do we wait for five more to run out?

The numbers have gone up in all countries, so I don’t know what we would be waiting for.

And it probably does make sense to do it regionally. It is a big country, not all schools nationwide are equally at risk.

One school district in WA state is closing all schools for two weeks and is switching to online education for that period.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...online-monday/

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