Has ordered people to wear face masks in public if they cannot social distance. One of the big focuses right now is on Contact Tracing, trying to identify who may have come in contact with an infected person. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes is live in San Francisco with this important part of the investigation and how it can help reduce infections. Chris . Good afternoon, liz. For people who are hearing this term for the first time, it simply means the ability of Public Health officials to track down every Single Person that a covid19 positive patient came into contact with. And you can imagine as cases have grown how complicated this task is. Well, today mayor london breed announced the citys ability to do widespread Contact Tracing investigations and how it will help reopen the economy. Have a listen. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine, or to basically give them the relief that they are not infeblged. It
The book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually but the book entitled seven pillars in the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and has become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american intention in the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not in a failure. Maybe to caveat more often than not is too kind, and absolute failure that one except the basic lane was the stability and a better life for the people in the region. Of course once ultimately responsible for our country success for failure are the people who lived there but the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region
Pillars to look more broadly and more deeply that the instability. From yemen to syria to iraq and iran the region more than ever is in the permanent read the turmoil of endless wars and tragically despite decades of intense and american attention of billions of dollars more often than not a failure. May be the caveat is an absolute failure and to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the one ultimately responsible for the success or failure are the people who live there. And with todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so, how . In this regard the editors of seven pillars, michael and brian and their co contributors have given us a gift. They identified seven factors that affect stability and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars they identified with the legitimacy of islam and ideology education economy and governance i found many of the au
The trial issue room shifted the national conversation. In 2014 relative to today, the Democratic Front runner, china is a significant problem economically and in the International Security sense. The credit for changing the conversation goes largely to the 2016 election and donald trump. Host on the democratic stage only one candidate said he would take away china tariffs and most said they would vote for a street deal with nafta. If that is not a political realignment not sure what is. An interesting thing, we should one of the east economically disruptive are implemented to restore a more even balance of power to the capital and labor. Tight labor markets, labor naturally wants a buyers market in labor or a sellers market in labor and employees want to buy ors market so that is basic, from the 1820s until 1990s the labor market from and tended to be, more generous policies, the former Country Club Republicans have become the new postal democrats, the children or grandchildren have,
Talks about us policy in the region and the recent confrontation between the us and iran. Watch booktv this week and every weekend on cspan2. If i could have everybodys attention we would like to get started. I am brian anderson, editor of city journal and i want to welcome you on behalf of the Manhattan Institute. It is with great pleasure that i introduce john tierney, a contributing editor at city journal and coauthor of the fascinating and useful new book the power of bad how the negativity effect rules us and how we can rule it. It is on sale outside the room here. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on the intersection of science and Public Policy and make no mistake, no matter how calmly, reasonably expressed, his is a very contrarian voice. It was johns New York Times column the big city which ran from the mid90s until 2002 that first made me a fan of his work. There he took on any number of prevailing this about cities from rent control to the root causes of h