Lansing. She addressed the covid19 pandemic and her goals for getting residents of her state vaccinated. This runs 30 minutes. I am honored to welcome all of you for my hometown of detroit. Last year was tough. Theres no doubt about it. But when our backs were up against wall, we saw some truly remarkable things and michigander stepped up in incredible ways to help each other. When we do things together, we are unbreakable. Thanks for the to the conviction and work ethic that fuels the soul of every person in our state. Now it is time for us to look Forward Together to write our next chapter. As president of the 101st legislature, i officially called the 2020 one state of the state address to order. Please an out of me to introduce my partner, the 49 governor of the great state of michigan, governor gretchen whitmer. Whitmer is addressing her state of the state address. This is different because it has to be. Tonight, it is tonight is just me and a few speed a few people in my capital
For younger kids, distancing required between adults from each other and students, students from distance from each other as much as possible. Test for every employee at least twice a month. Default is in person but we have to do it in a safeway and we have to do it in a way that can guarantee the health of not just our kids, but also those that are entrusted with their care. There is no question of. This week they called for more direction from the more than 1000 districts and 6000 students. They have already announced the year will start with distance learning, the guidance also details when to shut down in person learning, you close the classroom when there is one for two weeks, you close a school with a 5 Positivity Rate and you close a district of 25 schools reached the code. Governor newsom has exposed millions of kids through untold trauma and loss. Im not looking to score cheap political points with different points of view. One of the big concerns for appearances about the qua
And we must accelerate in response. We have a small window of time right now to get our cases under control before we could see the large outbreaks that we are seeing around this country. The mayor pointed the finger directly at an increasingly complacent and growing segment of the population tired of cabin fever. People who are having gatherings with others outside of their households. San franciscans need to change their behavior. Gatherings remain inherently dangerous. At the general hospital, the average age of the person hospitalized with covid19 since july first has been 41 years. We dont have months, we barely have weeks. The mayor demands that private Health Insurance providers step up and speed up virus testing. One key to reopening. Were not reopening us how we get this under control. We are all at risk for this disease and all at risk for serious consequences. We have flattened this curve once and we must do it again. A negative test is not a passport to do what you want. On
So bad that were going to be debating whether were in a serious recession or depression. We have pockets, though, of strength Like Technology and health care. But those pockets cant offset a very weak backdrop, can they we saw it again today. The dow lost 218 points. The s p 500, it tumbled. 7 . But the techheavy nasdaq also had the darn gall to rally. 51 , and was up a percent most of the day. Oh, the indignity. If you make technology that helps businesses cut costs by firing people, or having them stay home, youre doing great. If you make something people literally captain live cant live without, medicine, terrific Everything Else is a drug here staggering layoffs and the big drop in the index i am worried about, or at least a lot of what im worried about which is 9 s p 500. It gets worse. If you run a business leave it to the u. S. Economy and not chinas economy, well, now your stock is getting walloped. Over and over in the earnings season we see Companies Report an incredible 2 1
Bigger worry the back and forth right now on china and whether we really are going to remove those tariffs at 165 billion worth of goods from china that are supposed to take effect on december 15th, now, again, weve gotten mix reads out of that so we really dont know for sure but just a hint of that, it was coming coming from china that they were optimistic that that would be the case, we dont know where the president stands on this, all of this on the same day we had democrats announcing arms articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. Edward lawrence sorting out with the markets, sir. Watching what youre saying, neil, with the announcement from nancy pelosi and heads of 8 committees that negotiate on the democrats side, they were trying to take credit here for usmca, at one point in the News Conference House Speaker says thousand anonstarter deal that she got and turned into a deal thats good standard for all trade deals across the board, the white house pushi