honest to God Panic in the early days of COVID-19, and virtually every state shut down their schools...and did the best they could to make up for the loss of in-person learning.
Looking to the future, we need to a) do the best we can to 'Get Out iin Front' of any potential pathogen by doing research in likely places for them to evolve...like CHINA and parts of Africa...b) Cooperate with other countries on such research and analysis of emerging threats...c) keep our Strategic National Supplies stocked...etc.
Got to go right now...but if some pathogen like the grotesque Ebola virus comes to the U.S. you'd better believe NO PARENT will want their kids in school.