Talked about the White House Administration and Economic Opportunities and u. S. Cities. This event is about 90 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Im going to gavel the 86th winter meeting into session. Good afternoon, and welcome to the 86th winter meeting of mayors. Im michigan great mayor of new orleans conference of mayors. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] before we start, we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver is here, she wants us to know that today is 161st birthday of vancouver. You can welcome them and give them a round of applause for birthday but new orleans will celebrate 300th in a couple of weeks so celebrate for us too. Happy birthday madam mayor. [ applause ] it is migrate honor to introduce the Conference Leadership hospitals diaz, Vice President the benjamin from north carolina. Second Vladimir Putin rochester that i have in the meeting. Ceo and director tom cochran. Great leader, tom, thank you so much. We also have with us in the audience our
One month is a long time. People need certainty and clarity so they can plan. I made a coordinated action plan with the other states. So one month we will continue the closedown policies. What happens after them . I dont know. We will see, depending on what the data shows. What does that mean . Tell me what our infection rate spread is. Is it nine, one, 1. 7 . Tell me what the hospitalization rate is. And then the experts will tell us the best course of conduct based on that data. No political decisions, no emotional decisions. Data and science we. Were talking about human lives here. As relatively simple and possibly as annoying as it seems, wearing a mask is one of the best things that we can do. And i understand were getting a lot of not happy phone calls off what i said yesterday about Wearing Masks in public. But im sorry it makes people unhappy. I do not consider it a major burden. And it really is a simple measure that can save lives. And, yes, people say its a personal intrusio
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