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Louisiana closed its schools (NB: corrected my earlier contention of went into lockdown) much earlier than NY and closed essential businesses sooner.

Source: I live in New Orleans, returned from Los Angeles March 9.

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Louisiana didn't close bars and restaurants until March 16th[1], which seems to be the same day that NY did as well[2]. Anecdotally, people were still gathering and going out in the french quarter right up until the ban took effect.

[1]https://nola.eater.com/2020/3/16/21182099/louisiana-closes-b... [2]https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/15/21180713/restaurant-bar-shutd...

You are right, I misremembered https://twitter.com/skooks/status/1248072346801442817, edited my post above to reflect that.

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