@Ld1ncloud2 : Yes, it is!

Cant remember where but I saw a video clip of a crowded block party after students got the schools to shut down because of corona lol uhm...wut....

Area school districts and local health dpts / Homeland Security will be meeting on conference call tomorrow to discuss.
It's a tough call.
You want to frontload the problem to prevent massive spread, but people will be in a tiffy.
Just look at the people they interviewed yesterday complaining about Rodeo loss of money.
This is people's lives, who cares about $$ or whether we get to watch basketball or not.
I'm sure they will weigh the decision carefully.

OMGGGGGGGGGGG! They can shut the world down. I will not live in fear. So over this.

Shut them down and all of America! Lets stay home for 3 weeks!

Lakewood canceled church gatherings, only online for now

Humble ISD shut er down on a hyped up weather day once. And the sun was shining by early afternoon. I'm kinda surprised they didn't take Japan's lead a month ago.

@DaycareMom :
It's not living in fear. It's knowing the facts.
This is a communicable illness that can be deadly, and all the medical experts are giving the same information/recommendations and they have been for many weeks.
Everything they said weeks ago is coming to fruition.
Do you listen to your doctor when he talks? I sure do! And yes, most of us will be fine, but this is a time to pay attention to facts for the good of public health in general.

If shutting down the schools is to prevent the spread of the virus it would be pointless to wait until somebody gets sick. Once that happens there is no containment.Let's use a 1% mortality rate among older adults:If the students spread it among each other and don't really get sick, no big deal. If they spread it through the 250 or so staff members and 1% of those die that's 2 or 3 staff members from one high school.If every student (3,500) in AHS has 4 grandparents (14,000 grandparents) and 1% of them die after catching it from their grandkid that's 140 grandparents from one high school. If those grandparents transmit the disease to other older friends and family and 1% of those die.....you can see where this is going.If the mortality rate is higher than 1% and more like 3%?But if even only 2% die (to split the difference) it's easy to say you have a 98% chance of recovery. But that's still 6.5 million Americans.

@DaycareMom : Same!!!

@RedV : It would definitely hit the Grandparents really hard - It's a 21% death rate to those 80 years or older, 8% death rate for those in their 70's, and 3.6% for those in their 60's.

@texas2011 : Don't need money when you're dead!

@West-Tex : Yes, I just replied to myself! 😂

My friends daughter just got an email, classes online til April 28 at A&M.

Just got the text HISD closed until March 21. Also Lonestar College is closed.