“It needs to be all or nothing, or else how do we stop the spread?” said Ms. Stettler. canceling, and Disneyland, but my school is still open? It doesn’t make sense.”She, too, was eager for a higher level of government to step in — in her case, Gov. “Our public schools are waiting for him to say something,” she said. Ms. Tan, an architect who grew up in China, concluded that the hesitation was “really related to the American social structure.”“I think, under special circumstances, we do need a higher level to make dramatic decisions,” she said.

Source: New York Times March 15, 2020 09:00 UTC