Coronavirus pandemic. Talks aboutakabas the u. S. Economy and the Record Number of job losses as a result of the virus. Camila dechalus good morning. It is wednesday. Four weeks since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. As of today, nearly 13,000 americans have died of the disease, 400,000 americans have been diagnosed, and a 360 Million People in 42 states in the district and in the district of columbia are living under stayathome orders. We are asking how you are dealing with social distancing . Let us know how it has impacted you, your family and job. We have split up the phone lines by age. If you are under 25, 202 7488000. 2650 years. And if you are 5170 years old, the number is 202 7488002. And if you are over 70 years old, 202 7488003. You can catch up with us on social media. Wj on twitter. And regis on facebook. Reach us on facebook. Call now as we show you the map from the New York Times of the states in which residents have been told the stayathome. A matter of weeks, americans have been told to not leave the house unless you have to. The directives have swept the nation today and a vast majority of states, cities and counties have instructor residents to stayathome in a desperate race to stop the growth of the coronavirus. The latest date issue such an order, South Carolina, that order going into effect yesterday. Two counties had ordered the residents to stayathome before the governor, henry mcmaster, issued a statewide work at home order, limiting movement for forh carolinians, except essential activities. South carolina became the last day on the east coast issue such an order. Voters in one state yesterday asked to go to the polls to participate in a primary. This is the front page of usa today. Other,ion day unlike any in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. That is from the milky journal sentinel. The votes willd not be counted until monday. The latest twist in this political story, but the journal says, the main contest yesterday, the Supreme Court race between Justice Danielle kelley and a circuit judge. And the democratic president ial primary. A man whol quoting wore a painters mask for protection waiting outside Riverside High School to vote. He said, i do not feel like i am risking my life. But this is definitely different. People are practicing social distancing. That is what we are talking about, social distancing and how it is impacting you, your family and your job. The phone lines are split up differently. 202 7488000 if you are under 25 years old. 202 7488001 if you are 2650 years old. 202 7488002 if you are 5170 years old. And if youre over 70, 202 7488003. First out of california, up early this morning, on the line for those between 5170 years old. Guest good morning. I want to make a, about the social distancing. I live in a motorhome pretty much by myself with my cat. And i have been to prison before. Social distancing is not a big thing if you are used to this. When people go out and they did not take it seriously, that is on them. But you really should listen to your local people and stuff. Right now i would not even listen to the federal government, especially donald trump. Know, people are giving false information and it is dangerous. Host do you think people are taking it seriously in california . Guest oh yeah. There are times i get frustrated trying to go to the store. And people are worried about getting their toilet paper or rushing in. There is no need for that. It is nice here in california. People are doing the right thing. That is where death toll is not that high. Host is the governor doing the right thing . Guest yes, i like gavin newsom. He is telling it like it is. Overhen i turned the tv to cnn, i cannot even stand listening to the press conferences from the government. You know, the socalled task force. It is like a joke. He is just up there lying, trying to get people, dangerously like wisconsin, the republicans said it was ok to vote. You cannot vote by mail, but he votes by mail. He got called out on it. And he was like, blah blah. Come on. Host he was talking about the press briefing yesterday. We are expecting another one today. You can watch that on cspan. The california governor has been holding his own press briefings. Here is a bit from his briefing yesterday talking about the coronavirus cases in that state. 15,865r newsom individuals currently tested positive for covid19. That represents a 10. 7 increase over yesterday. Hotel, or hospitalizations rather, in the state of beds,rnia, again the icu the numbers i look at first thing every morning, those numbers went up to 2611. About a 4. 1 increase from the previous day. A 2. 1 increase over of the course of the last 24 hours. we will take. We want to see that number go down, not up. But these are not the double digit increases we are seeing in the hospitalization rates, that we saw even a week ago. That is not to suggest by any stretch of the imagination that we will continue to see these declines, it is to only the importance of maintaining physical distancing and continuing our stayathome policy. That it helped bend the curve in the state of california. But that curve continues to rise, just not at the slope that originally was projected without ,he kind of interventions the nonpharmaceutical interventions like social distancing has provided for us. At let us continue in th spirit to meet this moment. And continue to do more to practice physical distancing and social distancing that are required. Host the governor gavin newsom yesterday in california. We are talking about social distancing in this first segment today. Tell us how it has impacted you. Ken in fremont, california. Brown yes, my name is ken and i live in california. And i have cerebral palsy. That we shoulday stay inside. I think the governor and President Trump have had a brilliant bipartisan. Im a republican and a plan to vote for President Trump. But i think they are both doing a fabulous job. And i hope this covid19 eradicates itself soon. Host are you living alone in fremont . O, i have attendat that take care of me attend ants that take care of me. Host how do they help with some of your needs . Guest so for my guys have had to wear masks. It is really hard. But, hopefully, this thing will get results soon. Im a big sports fan. It is baseball season, but it will not start until june. Im more of a football fan. We will see how things turn out. Host thank you for the call. Billy from brooklyn, new york. Good morning. Guest good morning. Im because Donald Trumps lack of leadership on covid19 has been dismal. He would not extended the Enrollment Period for obamacare, so how does he expect people my wife is in between jobs, how will she get insurance . It is ridiculous. Is 100 Voter Suppression i n michigan. So the strategy of republicans is just to suppress the vote. And make sure that people do not vote. Voting by mail has been closed. Republicans just hate foreigners now. The rep. Gooden Party Republican party used to say that Legal Immigration was good. Now it is like death by a thousand cuts for ilLegal Immigration. And refugee seekers are at their lowest rates historically. So republicans are xenophobic and we have to call them out for it. Host we will be talking about the impact the coronavirus has had on Border Security coming up ohour 00 a. M. Hour, but tell me about brooklyn and what is happening outside your walls. Guest all of courses all the courses that i teach have been put online. Host what do you teach . Guest philosophy. Host how do you find online teaching . Are the students engaged . Guest they are too distracted with the obvious situation. They cannot even go get their books. I have to mail students copies of the textbook. And they cannot go to campus to get the work. They are distracted by the whole situation, too much to care about their courses. So just trying to make sure all my does not distract him. And just try to keep fighting the good fight. Host is there something in philosophy right now that we can learn from as we go through the social distancing . Guest it is him teaches affliction is enlightenment, so there is no constructive development. No spiritual progress without affliction. So we have to embrace suffering and transform it into enlightened wisdom. Host mark is next out of milwaukee to most constant. Good morning milwaukee, wisconsin. Good morning. Did you vote yesterday . Guest i sent an absentee ballot about one week ago. I feel really bad people had to wait in line, especially since we have had social distancing and stay at home for over a couple weeks. Andlucky that i am retired i am used to staying at home. But it is just conflicting information every day. You do not know what to believe. Trump is a liar. I read that there was a some news outlets that were going to do some Fact Checking with all the news briefings, because it is really difficult to follow and to find out what you are supposed to do. I have to go Grocery Shopping and i do not know if i am supposed to wipe down everything or what. It is really confusing. Host do you watch these briefings every day . Are you going to watch again today . Guest i watch cspan all the time. And it is just repetitive. Just repetitive lies. The malaria drug, i heard he has interest the president has business dealings with the company that produces that drug. Too thrilledre not about it, the ones i have heard about. Everything is conflicting and i really appreciate cspan oo ffering both points of view and helping me make my own decision. But what are we supposed to believe . Host mark in milwaukee. One of the other topics that came up yesterday at the briefing, the subject of the story in usa today. President trump replacing the Inspector General on monday, removing fine as the top watchdog for the emergency stimulus program. Part of the accountability committee, the inspectors general created the committee to oversee the roughly 2 trillion stimulus deal passed by congress and signed by the president. Donald trump signaled his displeasure with the loss of oversight when he issued a relatively rare signing statement, he said he would ignore the portions of the law that demanded democrats to give additional visibility in the stimulus spending, arguing that they would infringe on the separation of powers enshrined in the constitution. This is more from the president at the ye briefing, being asked about the removal of the Inspector General. Ofsent trump we have a lot President Trump we have a lot of ideas from the obama era. I left them largely. We changed some, but i left some. And we have reports of bias. And when we have Different Things coming in i do not know fine. I have heard the name. I do not know where he is. Ok, maybe he is from clinton. But we did change him. We changed a number we have about seven nominations in. Very highly qualified people for the ig position. That is a decision i couldve made years ago. But we are putting in so much for him we are putting in seven names and they are going in now. Host the president yesterday at the Coronavirus Task force briefing. There is another one today scheduled for 5 00 p. M. On cspan, the president likely to be leading the briefing from the White House Press room. The Washington Post editorial fine removal ase the subject of their lead editorial today, calling it another blow to oversight, writing it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that mr. Trump has something to fear from independent examination of the agencies under his administration. If you want to read more from the Editorial Board at the Washington Post today. Caroline in bellevue, washington on the line for those over 70 years old. How have you been dealing with social distancing . Guest we have been doing pretty well. Actually, my son and husband more or less go Grocery Shopping and they wipe everything down. They wipe everything down first when they go in the door. They were gloves and a mask. Wear gloves and a mask. And may take a long hand cleanser. They wipe everything down with alcohol. They do the shopping. Now i have heard were even your packages, we knew bring them home, you should wipe down all of your packages, you know, that you pick up at the Grocery Store, just to be on the safe side. So we have just now started doing that. When you bring them in the house. And one of the things i have kind of wanted to talk about a little bit, i had a doctors appointment for my back surgeon over at kirkland at evergreen hospital, and the first time i went over there to the hospital old folks know, that place and we noticed an ambulance coming from there and going to the hospital. I said, that is too bad. Come to find out, that was the first day that people were coming in from the old folks home. Host from a nursing home . Guest yeah, coming to the hospital. And we were in the surgery back and, you know, back surgery portion. That is a completely different building. But what i wanted to say, and ths came out in the journal american here, it just comes out here in bellevue and right around the kirkland, bellevue, redmond area. It is a small paper that comes out only on fridays. And the first i heard about it they have was when the new year, the one thing the chinese love to do is travel. There was a 14yearold boy, he went and visited his grandmother in that town where all of that began. Bush put the notice at that they could not fly out from china. Host you are talking about President Trump . Guest immediately, they wanted their son to come home. He was there visiting the grandmother and her they wanted him to come home. What they did, they could not get him out since there were no flights from china. He was in the very town. Host this was all in your local paper . Guest in the journal american. I will tell you what happened. What they did was they flew him they could not get him out of china, so they flew him to macau. And from there they got him a ticket on a plane to come home. Host that was carolyn in bellevue, washington. Stephen from minnesota, the line for those 5170. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host how is social distancing impacting you . Myst yeah, i was visiting dying father, who actually died on sunday, so it is more or less like cell confinement. Host i am sorry about that. Guest it took days to get the result. We didnt know. It took days, and how do you visit your dying loved one . There was a shortage, you know. We can always volunteer as far as masks. And i have a wonderful nephews wife, who made her own masks, and she will make masks for the care facilities. He was 91. Host was it coronavirus . Guest yes, it was. It was determined later on that day. My sister is a nurse and i went with her. She couldnt help ticket close to him and work with him. And just give him some comfort. And so i am really concerned about her more than me. So i was in the room, too, were my other brothers. We are own and our own we are all in our own self confinement. Going in, i did not mind one bit. But i know that there were some nurses who were asking for masks. Anything we can do to help the care facilities would be wonderful. Host stephen, do you mind if i ask, what do you do for a funeral in this situation . What is your family doing, if you do not mind saying . Guest we more or less have discussed it and we have sent off the messages and everything to extended family. Everybody knows now. He was with neptune, so we will get the ashes over to my brother and we are going to put off a celebration of life with him. As far as celebrating his life, that will be put off until may or june, or whenever we can get together. You and condolences to your family. Thanks for calling this morning. Johnny out of miami, florida. Good morning. Guest yes, am i on . Host yes. Guest here in miami pretty much everybody is following the guidelines, so it is not that bad. A common topic news media, the stink that comes from hollywood in new york left these people want to blame donald trump. You can blame him, because after this is all over, you watch, you will answer to the militias. Keep blaming him and you will watch what happens. Host do you think that there is going to be violence coming . Guest i do not know if there is going to be violence coming, but if you are going to blame donald trump, you have another thing coming. Watch, you watch. I am not going to do nothing, i am going to set back and laughed. You have joy behar and these people host ok, got your point. Michelle in new york on the line for those over 70. Guest good morning. I just want to say that i am 74 years old. So for about the past 10 years, know, had i do not about five years ago i guess i had this dnr, do not resuscitate, you know, i had a document with my lawyer that it gave the both my children. Positive forworked me. Just three years ago hello . Host i am listening. Go ahead. Guest anyway, to make a long story short, i was in a dnr circumstance where they were going to resuscitate me and my daughter happened to be there that i was ano, dnr, so she saved my life in a way because if they had given me compressions it would have probably broken my ribs. Anyway, they gave me a little bit of oxygen and it brought me back. But i want to say, no, i do not want a ventilator. I have to renew my dnr. And as far as the quarantine, i have basically been as i cannot walk that far, and like when i could walk and so forth i would take public transportation. The onlyi have not person i see is my aide. I love cspan. Host when is the last time you were able to leave your house . Guest oh, i cannot remember. At least a month ago. Because, how did i get a ride there . The office for aging took me to a doctors appointment. Host if you needed that appointment now, could you still call on them or has it been shut down . Guest no, i had to cancel my i had an appointment for tomorrow, as a matter of fact, and i called and canceled it. I know if i have problems i will just call 911. Thank god i have not. And i have not been tested for o i do notvirus, s know what they