Persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. In the case of coronavirus, that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the who rules, the World Health Organization rules and the result has been devastation. Its been the spread of the virus and so much of that devastation weve seen around the globe in my view could have been avoided. Had they played by the rules. Unfortunately, not playing by the rules applies to china in many other areas, too. Weve talked about trade a lot on this floor of the senate to be sure theres a level Playing Field between china and the United States and making sure they play by the International Trading rules, but here is another one, where china and the Chinese Communist party has not played by the rules. And thats with regard to obtaining our intell
Chris bunin. He shows how Geographic Information systems can be used to trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. He coauthored the book jamestown to appomattox mapping u. S. History with gis. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from nelson county, virginia just outside of our Albemarle County this is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to this bitly, it is not a perfect alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it to line up perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. I said, lets see, i wonder if anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at
Please keep those people in your thoughts and prayers. Yesterday was a really important day, a national day of prayer. I am sure those families and those people, the great West Virginians we lost appreciate you. I am not going to read you through what has happened in week two and three of the reopening plan, which will begin this coming monday. Guidelines for those businesses up on our website or itw website. The four will begin monday 18th great we will divide guidance at that time. I promise you today that we would give you guidance and a date on the hatfields and mccoy trail. Gotten an awful lot of feedback from a lot of different people from our tourism people to our medical experts, to people in other states. Ghed a lot of different factors and we know how important the hatfields and mccoys trail is to us economically and at the southern end of the state. The biggest thing we can do, i think it is an outdoor activity. Im aware of the fact people from out of state come here and enj
Colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, normal activities like work, school, Healthcare Services are increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick in the use of broadband. One estimate shows average Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. Good news is that theres been some progress in connecting all americans. The fcc has recently released broadband deployment report shows
Networks, cspan. Org and with the free cspan radio app. West Virginia Governor jim justice holds everything with reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. He says states his states cases have been lower than average. From charleston, this is about 50 minutes. Hello, everyone. It is friday, may 8. We have got one really good thing to report. I hope several things, but the first thing that is the most important to me, we have not lost anyone since the last time i was here, yesterday. If you will follow the other states, the other states are losing hundreds a day. Every time we lose one, it is not good. Total. Lost 51 people please keep those people in your thoughts and prayers. Yesterday was a really important day, a national day of prayer. I am sure those families and those people, the great West Virginians we lost appreciate you. I am not going to read you through what has happened in week two and three of the reopening plan, which will begin this coming monday. Guidelines f