By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Torillian on 13 March 2020
Edit Thread
jason1637 said:
Torillian said:
Our local public schools in Ann Arbor Michigan have closed for the next three weeks and the university has switched to online courses for the rest of the semester. We've only had two cases in the state so I'm surprised the public schools acted so quickly, I was expecting them to wait it out another week.

Someday I'd be really interested to talk to an expert on this particular virus and find out what about it made everyone take action so drastically. This is a much more notable reaction than I think the world has ever had for a single disease. Perhaps that's just because we have so much more information than we've ever had before, travel is easier than ever, or is this specific virus so much worse than Ebola or previous SARS strains that it required this level of response even if all other things were equal.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.amp.html

NYT has Michigan at 12 cases.

Oh? Last I heard it was 2, but I suppose that was two days ago. To be fair one of them is down the street at the hospital so I can understand the concern for local schools. 



...