You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
And medical officers at Rikers Island have also tested positive. We are seeing this disease spread very quickly behind bars. Jails and prisons, as many know, our petri dishes for the transmission of covid19. Host social distancing being described as the best way to combat coronavirus. Can one social distance behind bars . Guest it is virtually impossible to do all of those we are doing in the community. Trying to reduce the contagion of this disease. Many of us are washing our hands for 20 seconds or 30 seconds. We are keeping six feet apart from our neighbors on the street. We are, if we are lucky enough to have masks, Walking Around with masks. But soap, Hand Sanitizer, behind bars individuals are nked, dormitory style rooms, sharing toilets, sinks that have 20 or 30 beds. Impossible and in some jails and prisons, specifically alabama and mississippi, the hygiene conditions are very lacking. In fact, and Mississippi Health Department Report from this past summer found dozens of broke
The latest numbers of cases and deaths among the more than two my entire cans 1300 there are about confirmed cases behind bars across the United States. The Cook County Jail in chicago, illinois is the largest known source of covid19 infection. Detainees least 51 and 150 Staff Members have tested positive just in that one jail. People78 incarcerated officers,rrectional and medical officers at Rikers Island have also tested positive. We are seeing this disease spread very quickly behind bars. Jails and prisons, as many know, our petri dishes for the transmission of covid19. Host social distancing being described as the best way to combat coronavirus. Can one social distance behind bars . Guest it is virtually impossible to do all of those we are doing in the community. Trying to reduce the contagion of this disease. Many of us are washing our hands for 20 seconds or 30 seconds. We are keeping six feet apart from our neighbors on the street. We are, if we are lucky enough to have masks,
And 150 Staff Members have tested positive just in that one jail. People78 incarcerated officers,rrectional and medical officers at Rikers Island have also tested positive. We are seeing this disease spread very quickly behind bars. Jails and prisons, as many know, our petri dishes for the transmission of covid19. Host social distancing being described as the best way to combat coronavirus. Can one social distance behind bars . Guest it is virtually impossible to do all of those we are doing in the community. Trying to reduce the contagion of this disease. Many of us are washing our hands for 20 seconds or 30 seconds. We are keeping six feet apart from our neighbors on the street. We are, if we are lucky enough to have masks, Walking Around with masks. But soap, Hand Sanitizer, behind bars individuals are nked, dormitory style rooms, sharing toilets, sinks that have 20 or 30 beds. Impossible and in some jails and prisons, specifically alabama and mississippi, the hygiene conditions are
Political, and economic strategic point. You saw this in parliament we can half ago, where most of the kurdish members of the parliament in the sunni members of the parliament boycotted the wasion, and while the vote 1700, i heard behind the scenes on my social media feed, a lot of allegations of Death Threats against family members if they thenot vote against continuation of Coalition Forces in the country. There will be a big fight over the course of the next six months to a year over whether or not this direction by the parliament is legitimate, whether a caretaker Prime Minister can accomplish that with the need of a new election and unfortunately, somewhat forgotten and all of this is the real pressure from the iraqi street and the hundreds of thousands of young iraqis that have been demonstrating, particularly in the south of the country and in baghdad for government reforms, reduction of corruption and a reduction of foreign influence, but iranian influence because that is more