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Have been a major swing. Check out what Lloyd Blankfein tweeted. Hospitals are not overwhelmed. Most will be exposed anyway since we cant sequester until there is a vax is a Public Health benefit from broad lockdowns worth such extreme damage to livelihoods and what is more important, the potential human lives lost which are, of course, very important or the toll on the economy and possibly irreparable damage to the economy. Tim seymour . Well, look, now, if you think about where lloyd was on april 24th, i follow him on twitter, by the way i doesnt tweet that often and when he does, hes got something to say and a month ago he was saying im not so sure its wise for states to be opening but thats why we have a federal system where states can do what they do and was somewhat critical of georgia. Here he is coming in and talking about a more populous line theres politics attached to this i think theres economics attached and fascinating its whats happening and do think Lloyd Blankfein jump
Account for that i think a few things ari 1st off its great to be back on this you would say this. That we 1st off i think were the most Transparent Society in the world so i think were giving Accurate Information all the time i dont you can say that about the chinese the North Koreans the russians and i know they were getting Accurate Information from them and i cant imagine that the chinese dont have more coronavirus cases that us but the other thing too is larry we were a little bit slow to react here theres no question about that that you know i was advocating in early march a shutdown it really didnt happen for another 2 weeks after that you look at your state where you are right now california they shut down sooner than anybody else and i think as a result theyve gone through this a little bit better than anybody else especially relative to their population so they were a little slow at the beginning and also they got to places are being nearly as honest as we are about it in a W
A 1st off its great to be back on with you i would say this that that we 1st off i think were the most Transparent Society in the world so i think were giving Accurate Information all the time it though to say that about the chinese the north koreans the russians im i know they were getting Accurate Information from them and i cant imagine that the chinese dont have more coronavirus cases that us but the other thing too is larry we were a little bit slow to react here theres no question about that that you know i was advocating in early march to shut down it really didnt happen for another 2 weeks after that you look at your state where you are right now california they shut down sooner than anybody else and i think as a result theyve gone through this a little bit better than anybody else especially relative to their population so they were a little slow at the beginning and also the other places are being nearly as honest as we are back. In a Washington Post op ed last month you wrot
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