And actually its serving your constituents to have more of a micro handle on what is sort of going on in our districts, but also to be able to funnel people direct people to their website or to their offices versus them getting like a million calls or 311 getting a ton of calls. So i wanted to say that on the ground we could do that type of helpful work when i know that the city is working on a very macro level. Supervisor walton. Is there a regional conversation about cal pal yes, also on our list, yes. Id say lastly to the staff and then weve got to run. One of the other ideas is, you know, obviously former retirees who are in the Health Care Work as well as volunteers who have Training Background and are formally working with nonprofits or not, but sort of a Health Background or a clinical background. And the third is a lot of our communitybased organizations are deemed nonessential per the order so reaching out to employees from those c. B. O. S who are still getting paid. Were goi
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time to give money welcome to todays hearing on coronavirus, understanding the threat of Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i woke frank recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement again thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation to get ahead of this, dress it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment medication and treatment. This is the third hearing that im sharing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain th
The biggest global coordinated effort since 2018 to save the Global Economy from the coronavirus. Were seeing it react pretty dramatically in the Commodity Prices right now. Look at the dow, were back up 766 points. Crude is up over 5 . Gold got smashed last week on margin calls, it is coming up 30 inhouse. That is pretty incredible run after a big blowout last week. The reason theyre buying gold, if all Central Banks start easing policy, gold might be a safe haven play t wasnt a safe haven play when we were worried about global recession but those odds seem to be going down as Global Central Bank starts to take action. Interestingly enough, last week commodities really got crushed. Grain prices, cattle prices, food prices across the globe, worried that people wouldnt have a lot of money to pie a lot of food. Those prices are coming back. Really a mood change from Opening Sunday night. We got more bad news from the coronavirus and more bad news thing is getting out of control, we open
Any precipitous policy, at least not at the present time. How much more shock can this market take before theres longterm effects on the economy . What do you think . Look, the market the markets had a shortrun correction, and i guess its 10 or 11 or something. Weve been through this many, many times before. And i dont think even though its frontpage story and nobody likes to see their asset values go down, i just dont think at this point its going to have much of an impact. I will qualify that, depends how long this lasts, how deep it goes, but i could cite a number of historical experiences. The one i remember the most, i was a cub scout way back when, and i remember the 1987 market crash and i remember president reagan going out and saying the economic v economy is fundamentally sound, and it actually grew by 3 or 4 in the next couple years after this crash. President trump said it in this room two nights ago, we just think the economy is sound, and therefore i just dont think this
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