You have a monkey-see-monkey-do situation with a lot of the governers and big city mayors right now. They all went from ”close the schools” to mandatory quarantine to “stay at home order” together. It wasn’t logic or good policy but perceptions that caused them to make all these restrictions. Once someone does it, you follow or risk looking weak.

Now constituents are absolutely mortified thanks to the media, and no leader wants to be the first to lift restrictions. Luckily we have Trump running the show. Any other leader would be too afraid to speak out against this groupthink because of the same perception problem.