A moment to assess what the real situation is by the way just in recent time there has been the blame russia narrative im sure youre very familiar with that and then there was the blame mexico narrative and who could ever forget Freedom Fries when we decided as a nation that it was time to blame france so now our media and our government leaders want to shift our attention away from whats going on right here in the United States and focus instead on what happened in a lab in china last year which may be a legitimate side of the story and certainly worthy of coverage but shouldnt whats going on right here right now to all of us affecting our families be more important just a question theres 2 ways to look at this right and i want to break it down for you numerically and visually 1st the numbers. There are right now 234000. 00 people in the world who have died from the coronavirus of those 63000. 00 are americans that means the United States which accounts for less than 5 percent of the
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And the arrival of the key figures in florida in the years leading up to the boom in the giddiness of the frenzy it self which could be described as one gigantic party, followed by the pain and tragedy of the bust. I think these are very american stories. Every generation lives through one or 2 such booms and busts and virtually everyone learns a few painful lessons from them. Part and parcel of living in a Free Enterprise system with freemarket capitalism. I like to think there is a more serious aspect to what i am doing. I have come to believe we need to look under the proverbial hood of these frenzies to understand why they arose, what went wrong and who or what might be to blame because the economy john kenneth gob race once wrote, quote, regulation that outlaws financial incredulity is not a practical possibility. In other words you cant legislate away human gullibility. How these events happened, and not to be seduced by such speculative frenzies because they do keep on occurring
Our nbc news exclusive with a top chinese official lashing out morning some governors are starting to lay out plans for reopening, in fact, their economies days and weeks ahead others are extending after the president raises the stakes demanding china stayathome orders. Compensate the world for the at least 11 states now are personally reopened. Virus. It should have been stopped we can also tell you six states, including florida, texas, and at the source, china. It should have been stopped very nevada have stayathome orders that expire tomorrow much at the source but it California Governor Gavin Newsom is announcing a four phase plan wasnt. Now we have 184 countries going to slowly reopen the state through hell. Here is what he told savannah earlier this morning on today. Just ahead, why the chinese im worried we could erase all the gains in a short period of time. Weve made so much process and are accusing the president of we dont want to run the 90yard blackmail. Dash new hope. You