Moving into the red. The News Conference set to start at noon. Were expecting it to start imminently. Meanwhile, we learned that Contra Costa County and Santa Cruz County were bumped back into the red. The governor warned based on current covid infect rates that are the counties are likelying to follow the move and be bumped again in the colorcoded tier system. Were waiting to learn if others are on the list. The News Conference is to start at noon. Californias in a better situation than other parts of the country where infects and hospitalization rates are surging. The governor yesterday indicating that dr. Gale today will announce more restrictions for some counties. Anticipate that we will see some counties moving backwards not forwards and this is exactly why we designed the tore status the way we did. It was about being more and less restrictive not based upon political whim but based upon the data. The epidemiology and facts. Reporter the governors comments came the same day as c
Former Vice President mike pence will join the organization as a distinguished Visiting Fellow Pt what exactly is that job . What exactly is he going to do there . Its kind of beside the point. But heritage is very excited to have him. Working together with the former Vice President , heritage will continue to support and defend our Policy Accomplishments while also fighting back against a socialist agenda pushed by those on the left. Thats what mike pence is going to be doing. Hes going to be fighting socialists. Full timish. On a visiting basis. Congratulations, mr. Pence. Heres an unexpectedly awkward thing, though. The Heritage Foundation in this announcement today repeatedly describes their new hire as the former Vice President and, indeed, mr. Pence yesterday unveiled new letterhead proclaiming that he has opened an office now which he is calling the office of the former Vice President. The reason that is surprisingly awkward right now is that no matter what he does with his post
Former Vice President , heritage will continue to support and defend our Policy Accomplishments while also fighting back against a socialist agenda pushed by those on the left. Thats what mike pence is going to be doing. Hes going to be fighting socialists. Full timeish. On a visiting basis. Congratulations, mr. Pence. Heres an unexpectedly awkward thing, though. The Heritage Foundation in this announcement today repeatedly describes their new hire as the former Vice President and, indeed, mr. Pence yesterday unveiled new letterhead proclaiming that he has opened an office now which he is calling the office of the former Vice President. The reason that is surprisingly awkward right now is that no matter what he does with his postwhite house life, it is going to be hard for former Vice President to mike pence to assert that he ever served in the administration of former President Donald Trump because apparently were not supposed to admit there is such a thing as former President Donald
A socialist agenda pushed by those on the left. Thats what mike pence is going to be doing, hes going to be fighting socialists full timeish, on a visiting basis. Congratulations, mr. Pence. Heres an unexpectedly awkward thing, though. The Heritage Foundation in this announcement today repeatedly describes their new hire as the former Vice President , and indeed, mr. Pence yesterday unveiled new letterhead, proclaiming that he has opened an office now, which he is calling the office of the former Vice President. The reason that is surprisingly awkward right now is that, no matter what he does with his post white house life, it is going to be hard for former Vice President mike pence to assert that he ever served in the administration of former president donald trump, because, apparently, were not supposed to admit there is such a thing as former president donald trump. Mike pence, so far, is happy to call himself the former vp. Donald trump is not calling himself the former president.
Quarantine. Its not clear when those measures will be lifted. The number of newly confirmed cases dropped to 19 on monday. The total is now around 81,000 and the death toll stands at about 3100. At the same time, other nations are ramping up efforts to stop the viruss worldwide spread. Italy is now entirely locked down. Prime minister giusepp conte says the unprecedented measures will last until april 3rd. He asked residents to stay at home and for bayed them from gathering in public. Individuals should only go out for work and healthrelated needs and emergencies. 463 people in italy have died from the virus and nearly 9200 have been infected. Both numbers are the second highest after china. On sunday and monday inmates in the countrys prisons rioted after the virus. The Justice Ministry said seven inmates died. Elsewhere in europe france, germany and spain have now each confirmed more than 1,000 cases. Outside Mainland China and japan over 30,000 infections have been confirmed and mor