Preference cascade in progress Everyone knows that schools are horribly damaging to children but most normal people don't want to pull their kids out for fear of their kid becoming the oddball. Closing the schools could lead to a new equilibrium when people don't send them backhttps://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1243727020984619008 …
The Cathedral is antifragile because it makes sure to snuff out preference falsification cascades rapidly - in this limited case, they had no choice. Notice how reluctant they were to take the step of closing the schools in the first place and now the worried propaganda.