Recommendations for the next pandemic. Several members also pay tribute to representative john lewis who sat on the house ways and Means Committee. Appreciate everybody joining us today. This is a terrific turnout, considering all of the activity and turmoil going on around us. Many of us are back in washington today. We are holding this committee virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This authority allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families, and the Broader Community safe. We have all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have thei
Thank you for coming. That is the pink newspaper thats really good. I present bc radio. Ive done a show for the World Service ive made fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how numbers lead us astray and sometimes help us to understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis. Called Cautionary Tales its all about things going wrong sometimes and tragic ways and sometimes in amusing ways. In between all of that i try to write a few bucks. The second thing i want to say is thank you to the Rancho Mirage festival to jamie and the rest of the festival. A round of applause for jamie please. Jamie emailed me probably 18 months ago and suggested i fly across the world from Oxford England to come to Rancho Mirage. Its a huge journey for me. Thank you very much to all of you. I feel fortunate to be here. [applause]. I said i wasnt a fan of long preambles. Clearly im a total hypocrite. Let me talk about this book of mine. I dont if you can see the sl
Has now passed 20,000 confirmed cases and more than 550 people in this state have died. These numbers are according to the Johns Hopkins global coronavirus tracker so is the coronavirus pandemic based on what some are saying still as bad as we think one bay area doctors weighing in on how the situation is in fact improving because of the precautions that were taken early on. And now we can continue to move in the right direction kron 4 dan thorn reports from walnut creek. It appears theres been progress in the bay areas fight against covid19 there has been the possibility of seeing deaths in case is surging but early actions taken by local Health Officials. Seem to be working we are in a better place than weve not been says social distancing shelter a everything thats been done in our communities to prevent the spread of coronavirus doctor Michael Stacey with Lifelong Medical care says being in this position is obviously a good thing. Our hospitals are not being overwhelmed and testing
Tickets to people they still flock to the beaches. The state parks in marion county, the unincorporated areas which is why at 1159 last night they decided to go ahead and tell people youre no longer welcome at state parks in marine county and other unincorporated areas if you drive to the location and walk into the parks and if they spot your car. They will issue a ticket a 100 they will have full enforcement by the Sheriffs Department and other Police Agencies throughout marine county, the whole goal is to keep you at home to let you celebrate easter in your neighborhood or in your front yard but not come out to the state parks and beaches and we talked about his robin marty for weeks now, but even the governor when he first issued the shelter in place and then he saw the huge number of people turning out to the museums the parks and the other areas that he told people to grow up. Well hes no longer telling people to grow up. Now hes giving people 100 reasons to stay home for easter.
I dont believe in long preambles but i feel that i should say a few words before i Start Talking about technology. The first thing is that i am well aware that many of you have no idea going on. So thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. Tim s speaks very well of you. I know those really big names. So i feel very honored to be here. So who am i. I write a column for the undercover columnist for the Financial Times. It is really good. I recommend it. Thank you sir. [laughter]. The second thing is that i do radio. Adagio for service they called 50 things that makes economy. And all about numbers and how we think about numbers and how number sometimes stray sometimes. It helps us understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called malcolm gladwell. Cautionary tales which is all about things going wrong and sometimes in tragic ways and sometimes in amusing ways. And what we can learn from them. So in between all of that, i write books. It took about wh