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In the 90s, could be looking at this morning, our lady of angels some of our prevention measures upper 60s and 70s, for one day Held Services in a beautiful are working and that we are not this week, it may feel more like setting. Church followed county protocols seeing coronavirus in placido p fall on wednesday and just like to make sure had that the that, next weekend, the weather congregation stayed safe. Like the mail or certain public reality check returns and back everyone wore masks and people in to the 90s by next weekend. Restrooms while im surprised by so, kind of a two week cool had to sign in when they that, i think its good news. Down, see if we can manage a bit what are the limitations on arrived. Whatever we have to do, we of a positive result . Will do according to the rules well the limitations are that of line rain early wednesday morning. But we are definitely doing thank you. Back to you, rob. You really dont know how much coming up, protecting your everything they
Oil, 41. 40 we talked for a long time about mike pences hawkish speech on china from a year or two ago but pompeo yesterday oneupped that and this consulate news from china is weighing on sentiment too. Yeah, he upped the ante jim did focus us at the time on Vice President pences speech because it was quite truck lant would be a word to describe it at the time but it continues to go up in terms of the tensions, carl weve talked about it pretty much every day, whether its a backandforth over huawei, whether it has to do with conversations about closing down the app tiktok in the United States, whether it is the closing of consulates here and the response from the chinese. This is not going in a direction that many, who at least are invested in the idea of global trade, certainly, mike, would wanting to see. For sure. On the one hand the market is not necessarily overly focused to this point on these relationships and not really counting on anything to come out of it. Its not quite like
American enterprise institute. Can i start with the headline in the washington post, sevenday averages for new virus cases hit fresh highs in over a dozen states. Why do you think we are in this situation that we are in right now . Well, thanks for having me this morning. I think were going to have a rotating series of regional epidemics in this country. What were seeing happen is as soon as a region starts to cool down and get control over the epidemic, a new region heats up. I think were in this position because we have a lot of infection all around the country. We reopened not just early but aggressively. And so that instigated more spread. And now you have a situation where theres just so much infection that its going to get into other parts of the country. We never fully crushed the virus in any part of this country. The sunbelt is showing signs of improvement. Thats the epicenter of the u. S. Epidemic right now, states like, arizona, texas, florida, southern california. There are