Arizona governors talked about the states response to the pandemic with the recent rise of cases thing the increase is linked to lower testing in hospitals around the state have the capacity to meet the needs of patients. From phoenix, one hour 15 minutes. Good afternoon everyone good to see everyone today. I went to begin by saying thank you to all the good people of arizona it has been an incredibly difficult several months increasingly so over the last couple of weeks. Thank you to all the peaceful protesters, Law Enforcement leaders, all the cops and deputies and our healthcare workers who have all been working overtime. Thank you for what you have done and i want to give you an update where we are in arizona around covid19. We will take a calm and steady approach and the decisions we make for Public Health and everything we talk about today will be informed by data and information and we want to make sure you have accurate data and information. Lets review briskly how far arizona
Pandemic with the recent rise of cases thing the increase is linked to lower testing in hospitals around the state have the capacity to meet the needs of patients. From phoenix, one hour 15 minutes. Good afternoon everyone good to see everyone today. I went to begin by saying thank you to all the good people of arizona it has been an incredibly difficult several months increasingly so over the last couple of weeks. Thank you to all the peaceful protesters, Law Enforcement leaders, all the cops and deputies and our healthcare workers who have all been working overtime. Thank you for what you have done and i want to give you an update where we are in arizona around covid19. We will take a calm and steady approach and the decisions we make for Public Health and everything we talk about today will be informed by data and information and we want to make sure you have accurate data and information. Lets review briskly how far arizona has come in the last three months. March 11, 2020 a declar
This is a very somber subject. Normally when you do but towards you go to a different cities and talk about connections that the place has with whatever you have written about. This is a special place in this context, and i am certainly not here to tell you your own story of what happened in this city 70 years ago, because im sure you know it much better than i ever well. One of the things that always amused me when i come here is first of all how warmly i welcomed by everybody, but also how profoundly the bombing touched everybody here. A relatively small place. Ive never met anybody from obama city who was not touched in a personal way by the tragedy the first time i came i spoke to a number of their relatives of the victims, especially the children who died in the day care center. I thought, a British Foreign correspondent. I have been to a lot of not terribly pleasant places. This is just another assignment. Then having spoken to them by went down to the memorial and saw that, the
Andrew thank you all for coming. This is a very somber subject. Normally when you do but towards you go to a different cities and talk about connections that the place has with whatever you have written about. This is a special place in this context, and i am certainly not here to tell you your own story of what happened in this city 70 years ago, because im sure you know it much better than i ever well. One of the things that always amused me when i come here is first of all how warmly i welcomed by everybody, but also how profoundly the bombing touched everybody here. It is a relatively small place. Ive never met anybody from obama city who was not touched in a personal way by the tragedy. The first time i came i spoke to a number of their relatives of the victims, especially the children who died in the day care center. I am a British Foreign correspondent. I have been to a lot of not terribly pleasant places. This is just another assignment. Then having spoken to them by went down
Hes also author of prelude to cruise which is winner of the penn joyce author award for poetry and at the 2015 stonewall literature award. Poetry collection is also a finalist for the 2015 National Book critics circle award as well as awards lambda literary and the publishing triangle in 2015. Saeed jones served as cohost of buzzfeeds morning show and served as buzzfeeds lgbt and culture editor. He grew up in lewisville texas and earned a ba at Western Kentucky University and an mfa at Rutgers University in newark. He lives in new york city and tweets at the ferocity. Thank you for being here saeed jones. As a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free because of Strong Community support and we want to keep it that way. So you can donate on the web. Humanities tennessee. Org or by the southern festival of books or by the collection plate thats been passed around. Saeed is going to read for us. We will have a q a and when we get to the q and aplease use the microp