| Comment | To some extent the govt. were pragmatic that a downside of closing schools was that inevitably there would be a weekend where they all celebrated, basically, a 6-month summer holiday. They were quite transparent that basically no measure you take is made in a vacuum: you can't close schools without them going elsewhere, you can't lockdown a country for too long or people will flip out. Added to which, from the kid's perspective they've all been hanging around for ages already, so what's one more Saturday night.
It's obviously not correct or ideal, just realistic. Try telling a 16 year old not to celebrate the end of school.
I think patience extended to this weekend past though (even then for many people it didn't). |
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