Washington has just, for example, banned all events with over 250 people in them for the three most affected counties.

Cities and counties in CA had been doing the same with different thresholds. Which meant an NBA game was going to be played without fans (since then, the NBA season has been suspended, which is a pretty significant measure in and of itself).

Many schools have been closing in the Seattle area, and just today the Seattle school district, and many outlying school districts closed for at least two weeks. That's a lot of school closures.

Many companies are having employees work from home wherever possible. The amount of traffic in Seattle during rush-hour is an astronomical change. There's very light traffic during rush hour in places that used to be wall-to-wall vehicles.

As someone living in the Seattle area, it feels like life has substantially changed.

Bay Area, I'm wfh, my wife is wfh, all our family and friends that work for major tech companies are wfh, 85-N had no traffic at 9:30 AM this morning, we pulled our kid out of gymnastics class 2 weeks ago, we haven't been going to museums (one of which is closed, because of coronavirus), and his day care (which nominally has 12 students) was down to 7 last Friday and now 3 of those are out because of hand-foot-mouth disease. Berkeley, Stanford, and Santa Clara University have all gone remote-only and sent the students home. Stores are completely out of rice, beans, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, etc, and a bunch of people are wearing masks. I figure it's just a matter of time before we're on complete lock-down.

All Seattle public schools closed. Northshore is already, Bellevue shortly, LW had better.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-03-...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he’s banning gatherings of more than 250 people in several counties.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/washington-state-bans-large-...

Many local businesses have soft-closed their offices at behest of city including Amazon and Microsoft.

I have a few friends that teach at K-12 schools in California and they've all been told to figure out what platform they want to use to do teach remotely. Our local school district sent out an email to parents outlining an online teaching plan.

I don't know if they're all just being exceptionally prepared or if there's plans for a more widespread school shutdown here.

Schools in several major districts are shutdown for at least 14-days.

This now includes Bellevue School District (Bellevue WA).

King (Ground Zero, US), Pierce and Snohomish Counties all have a ban on any event with 250 or more people (this was declared by WA State's governor)

City council meetings are being conducted remotely.

University of Washington has moved all their classes online for the remainder of the semester.

Aren't all the California universities switching to online or shutting down? That's kind of aggressive, no?

Gatherings are also being shut down. Public meetings are shutting down.

What else would you have them do?

In SF-proper, it feels like a ghost town, I'll tell you that. But just outside in Berkeley, everyone's just strumming along in their cars.

School districts are closing down, for one. For example, my hometown's school district (Elk Grove Unified School District) shut down all campuses this week (but are apparently allowing athletic and academic team activities - i.e. sports - tomorrow): http://www.egusd.net/covid-19/