Erring on the side of safety, isn't bad. Closing the schools is a judgement call. With 640,000 students, what percentage of a level of confidence do you need before you blow it off? You comfortable with a politician like Ramon going at 5%? 10%? 20%?
Let's be blunt, anybody advising is going to have nothing but weasel words for how sure they are. Most likely, possibly, unlikely, etc.
To me the bigger concern showing up is this attitude of "do not criticize us', 'do not second guess us', 'won't tell you my advice was'
so sleazy, sleazy, sleazy on the parts of everyone that didn't make the call, but had input.
IMHO, all Ramon needs to say is the facts, the email came at time X, we had to make a decision, nobody would definitely say it was 'hoax' and hopefully, someone asked them if they'd send their kid. Nobody was sure it was a hoax and I (Ramon) needed to decide if I'm sending 750,000 people into the threat.
And then let's get a look at it so people can judge, but it is fair for us to judge
And then let's move on to the fairly complete blunder that the process for vetting, closing and communicating was.
