Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

For anybody who doesn't understand why schools aren't closing now.

https://twitter.com/Lstedmanbryce/status­/1238906195651559424

One thing that keeps cropping up with regard to school closures is this non-complience/behavioural fatigue thing. I am not questioning the experts, but would just like to know how this applies to schools (or care homes).

Also, here in Belgium schools and care homes will be closed (to visitors for the latter) from 12 March until Friday 3 April, the start of the Easter break that ends on Sunday 19 April, so more than five weeks of nobody in school. Experts, namely Marc Van Ranst, have been telling the public that the pandemic will rage until mid May. The parent mob seems to have concluded from this that schools will simply remain closed for another month. Obviously I´m not saying that that is what he meant, but folks seem to expect themselves and the economy to be proper fuckered.