Very proud publishers of mike and were teaming up to try to do a series of things during this pandemic crisis as part of our political intellectual mission but also because were on lock down, were trying to find new ways for us to share information so its very exciting for me to be collaborating when my Close Friends and comrades at haymarket and you might have caught haymarkets excellent teaching last week its when they started to pioneer this online form, marvelous event, super informative, even inspiring, 15000 of us participated in that, joined in for that great talk and this is aiming to be a series haymarket first others that put together, haymarket in fact has already organized a followup to taylors talk in the gonna reconvene these three and discuss the further politics of coronavirus in the next talk would be broadcast on thursday april 9, thats not this thursday but next thursday at 5 00 oclock eastern time and same time this time with mike davis, the following thursday the s
I just wanted to tell you that i feel very safe going into my stores. I wear my mask, and i take good afternoon. In february, sadly we learned that the first known coronavirus death in the united states. Since then, over 80,000 americans have died and nearly 1. 4 million have been infected. 33 million americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance. We all know these numbers. We face the biggest catastrophe in our nations history. Setting aside how we got here, we must approach this tragedy with the deepest humanity as we go into the future. All of our hearts are broken by the loss of life. The number of 33 million americans who have filed for Unemployment Insurance is almost unimaginable. This is a moment when many millions of our fellow americans are in deep suffering. We must have empathy for our heroes. The Health Care Workers for how exhausted and how stressed they are in doing their jobs. Add to that, they may lose their jobs in this economy. We must also empathize with the pain
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Governors actions, we still have not entered phase i yet pretty they are not seen enough of a consistent, declining cases that the governor did open up some of the areas. People can go fishing, recreational fishing, some tennis, sports where people areh spread out. I thought that was an appropriate move, some elected surgeries resumed. But in maryland, the problem remains as ain dozen so many otr states, we still just do not have adequate testing to safely reopen in the next phases. That really requires an ability to test rapidly our weight scale system so you can quickly detect anan outbreak. If you want to make sure that you can find any flareups quickly. An isolated, trace everybody who may be hand contact with that person. Otherwise, some have said, your campfire becomes a bonfire. You just want to make sure that it does not take that leap pretty testing is essential. I wrote to the president , the essenators just yesterday, realy urging him to make better use of what is called tit
Would be overwhelmed. We worried we would not have enough icu beds or ventilators. We knew we did not have enough ppe or testing supplies. So here in virginia, we asked you to stay home. We issued restrictions on businesses and gatherings. Urged houses of worship to give sermons online. And moved restaurants to take out and home delivery. Andnesses moved to telework online meetings. We put a hold on elective surgeries. And we all learned a new term, actually two terms, social distancing and physical distancing. We put these restrictions into place, and we waited to see if we were able to flatten the curve. And while we waited, our team monitored data, built new ppe supply chains, strengthened our unemployment system, planned for alternative care facilities, and a strengthened testing system, among other steps. In virginia made sacrifices. But everything you have done has truly made a difference. We flattened the curve, and our hospitals have not been overwhelmed. Im keenly aware that i