Discussion on COVID-19 Response Measures

When I look at the basic tenets that we know of microbiology

and I say do we need to still shelter in place,

our answer is emphatically no.

Do we need businesses to be shut down?

Emphatically no. Do we need to have,

do we need to test them and get them back to work?

Yes we do.

The secondary effects that we went over,

the child abuse, alcoholism, loss of revenue, all these are in our opinion

a significantly more detrimental thing to society than a virus that has

proven similar in nature to the seasonal flu we have every year.

We also need to put measures in place

so economic shutdown like this does not happen again.

We want to make sure we understand that

quarantining the sick is what we do, not quarantining the healthy.

We need to make sure if you're gonna,

if you're gonna dance on someone's constitutional rights,

you better have a good reason.

You better have a really good scientific reason and not just theory.

We're gonna work diligently to find a vaccine and

the one of the most important things is we need our hospitals back up.

We need our furloughed doctors back.

We need our nurses back because when we lift this thing we're gonna need all hands on deck.

I know the local hospitals have closed two floors.

Folks that's not the situation you want.

We're essentially setting ourself up to have minimal

staff and we're gonna have significant disease.

That's the wrong combination.