I am a Kindergarten Teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] how many educators in the room today . Community supporters . Also San Francisco board of education if you see the others walkin and gabriella lopez. Happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane we have some housekeeping items. Retired school one social studies teacher is passing out cards on which you can write questions. The format will be diane and i will talk for a little while and then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. The questions will come from the cards and that way we will know five different people are asking the question then we can ask the question so with that would like to give a little introduction and a lot of people here been following her a long time but i would like to give an introduction. A champion for Public Schools across the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience and is one of the nations
The science, paid leave and protecting the most vulnerable communities. Bernie thanks very much, everybody, for being here. In the last few days we have seen the crisis of the coronavirus continue to grow exponentially here in the United States and around the world. And we have witnessed a Global Economic meltdown which will impact millions of workers in our own country. In terms of potential deaths and in terms of the Economic Impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war. And we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being or the number of people who may get ill and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible. But we also have to face the truth and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in world war ii. In other words, we have a major, major crisis and we must act accordingly. Therefore it is an absolute moral imperative that
Next, remarks by democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders on the Coronavirus Response and what can be done to combat the virus. He spoke earlier today at an event in vermont. This is 20 minutes. Thanks very much everybody for being here. In the last few days, we have seen the crisis of the coronavirus continued to grow exponentially here in the United States and around the world. And we have witnessed a Global Economic meltdown, which will impact millions of workers in our own country. In terms of potential deaths, and in terms of the Economic Impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war. And we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who make it ill. We hope that number will be as low as possible. But we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experience of world war ii. In other
Impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war, and we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who may get ill, and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible. But we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in world war ii. In other words, we have a major, major crisis, and we must act accordingly. Therefore, it is an absolute moral imperative that our response as a government, as a society, as a business community, and as individual citizens meet the enormity of this crisis. As people stay or work from home and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy for us to feel like we are all alone. Im working at home, im not in my office. Or that we must only worry about ourselves and think that everybody else should fend for themselves. But in my view, that would be a tra
Major war, and we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who may get ill, and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible. But we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in world war ii. In other words, we have a major, major crisis, and we must act accordingly. Therefore, it is an absolute moral imperative that our response as a government, as a society, as a business community, and as individual citizens meet the enormity of this crisis. As people stay or work from home and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy for us to feel like we are all alone. Im working at home, im not in my office. Or that we must only worry about ourselves and think that everybody else should fend for themselves. But in my view, that would be a tragic and dangerous mistake. If there ever was a time in the modern history of our c