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I just wantto talk about how important this is for for being able bodies, being able to provide these meals to all the folks that need them. And the city is doing a wonderful job here. We've got these thes food centers up all across the state, and I want to thank the guard for helping out, too, along with all the other. Yeah, I don't want to interrupt him. He just came out of, Ah, one of the rec centers were serving some meals. So I'm gonna put my microphone right in front of him. Just crisis. It's even more important to make sure that he gets the meals. But we want to make sure base safe and still maintain social distancing. What we're doing now like like Shaq's tried stepping away from May like none of you reporters are doing. We just have to get economic question we're getting into the month and why you stopped evictions. But what about the folks are probably gonna fall pretty far behind on their bills. Yeah, well, that we announced the whole series of things yesterday to try to help folks, but yeah, there's no question that economically, a lot of people are going to be hurting its We're fighting this duel thes two big, huge problems at the same time, right? We're tryingto save people's lives and we're fighting this health battle. While we're also gonna be dealing with this economic fallout. There's a big bill in Congress today that they're still fighting over, that I hope we can get past. They passed. A couple of economic stimulus bills are ready to get some checks in the hands of people as fast as possible, maybe up to $3000 for families, which will help unemployment benefits. We've expedited to make sure that people don't have to wait at all. We're the only states where you don't have to wait for that. We we rolled out about six different state programs yesterday to help people on individuals and small businesses, and the federal government's doing some things as well. We also put in place where nobody can get that no one can not get evicted, can't get foreclosed on. They can't have any of their utilities turned off. They can't get charged in a late payments. But there's no question, even when, after all that's over with and the crisis is over. People are gonna have a lot of catching up to do. So it's just something we all have to figure out, Um, how we're gonna help people climb out of that because there's the health need and the economic need, and it's gonna be overwhelming. And people just have to know that we're gonna try to do everything we can to state level. And hopefully the federal government is too. Yeah, there was. Uh, look, we We have been trying to get as many people as possible to stay home, and we still want to say if if you do not have to leave your home if you do not have to goto work, please stay home. And I know there's too many people out here today for too many people stand around here right now, but, um, many businesses have to stay open, and we want to make sure the supply chain is open and people get the things they need. People get the food that they need. The pharmacies, they're open, the banks are open on. But all the essential service is air there that they have to transportation that they need that you know, all the basic things were there, but other non essential businesses should be closed and people should be staying home as much as possible. We closed the schools, close the bars and restaurants, but we want to carry out to be open. We went to delivery to be open on. We're just gonna do everything we can to keep people safe. But it's gonna hurt a lot of small businesses. A lot of people that aren't working, we're gonna try to provide some help for them. It's just a delicate balancing act. None of these are steps that anybody wants to take, but they're ones that we think are necessary to save thousands of lives. This week is the last week. Any idea about a superintendent Salmon has been meeting with? All of the local school superintendents are on a conference call every single day. I think she had another call with them today, and there may be some discussions about the next day or two about what to do with schools. I know they've been working on how we get more up to speed on distance learning and be able to do more things online. There's not a decision at this point in time about what to do. A lot of it depends on how long we think this'll crisis is gonna last. Whether or not they're going to be ready to go back to school anytime soon. We don't want to close down schools for the remainder of the year like one or two states have done, but we don't know. We don't want to bring kids back if they're not safe, you know, next week either. So we're gonna try to find the right balance and and then make sure we do the right thing. It's a decision in Virginia to clothe. Not really. I mean, uh, the District of Columbia made a decision to come back the end of April. They're all states making different decisions all around the country. We've been I was on a call yesterday with both the governor, Virginia, and the mayor of D. C. But we're gonna make our own decision based on our best advice from our doctors and scientists. And it'll be Karen Salmon, the superintendent. Schools actually has the power to make the decision, and she'll do that in consultation with all of our 24 superintendents, and she'll certainly advise us and include us in that decision. It's gonna be best based on what everybody thinks is the best idea for our state. Based on what you've seen so far in terms of a response, what's the biggest? The biggest gap in the response is just this lack of supplies and materials needed. That's it. That's the big issue that everybody's talking about. There's been long term planning, I guess, for this kind of, ah pandemic worldwide pandemic. But nobody seems like everybody was caught flat footed with respect to the lack of availability of these basic things, like, you know, tests and masks and on ventilators and supplies. And that's probably the biggest issue is that nobody has a plan for how to get this ramped up fast enough, and that's not pointing any fingers anybody in particular. But it's just all around the world. This is the biggest problem. It's hard enough to like he was referencing now to keep adults apart in schools 25 30 kids for Smith Ring touching each other, touching stuff. Yeah, we talked to a number of teacher. That's a big sign out there, so we're not gonna do anything that's gonna endanger our kids. And I don't think, you know, my personal opinion is I don't think they're gonna be ready to go to school back to school next week. But that's gonna be a decision that the schools will make an announcement on soon. I just wantto talk about how important this is for for being able bodies, being able to provide these meals to all the folks that need them. And the city is doing a wonderful job here. We've got these thes food centers up all across the state, and I want to thank the guard for helping out, too, along with all the other. Yeah, I don't want to interrupt him. He just came out of, Ah, one of the rec centers were serving some meals. So I'm gonna put my microphone right in front of him. Just crisis. It's even more important to make sure that he gets the meals. But we want to make sure base safe and still maintain social distancing. What we're doing now like like Shaq's tried stepping away from May like none of you reporters are doing. We just have to get economic question we're getting into the month and why you stopped evictions. But what about the folks are probably gonna fall pretty far behind on their bills. Yeah, well, that we announced the whole series of things yesterday to try to help folks, but yeah, there's no question that economically, a lot of people are going to be hurting its We're fighting this duel thes two big, huge problems at the same time, right? We're tryingto save people's lives and we're fighting this health battle. While we're also gonna be dealing with this economic fallout. There's a big bill in Congress today that they're still fighting over, that I hope we can get past. They passed. A couple of economic stimulus bills are ready to get some checks in the hands of people as fast as possible, maybe up to $3000 for families, which will help unemployment benefits. We've expedited to make sure that people don't have to wait at all. We're the only states where you don't have to wait for that. We we rolled out about six different state programs yesterday to help people on individuals and small businesses, and the federal government's doing some things as well. We also put in place where nobody can get that no one can not get evicted, can't get foreclosed on. They can't have any of their utilities turned off. They can't get charged in a late payments. But there's no question, even when, after all that's over with and the crisis is over. People are gonna have a lot of catching up to do. So it's just something we all have to figure out, Um, how we're gonna help people climb out of that because there's the health need and the economic need, and it's gonna be overwhelming. And people just have to know that we're gonna try to do everything we can to state level. And hopefully the federal government is too. Yeah, there was. Uh, look, we We have been trying to get as many people as possible to stay home, and we still want to say if if you do not have to leave your home if you do not have to goto work, please stay home. And I know there's too many people out here today for too many people stand around here right now, but, um, many businesses have to stay open, and we want to make sure the supply chain is open and people get the things they need. People get the food that they need. The pharmacies, they're open, the banks are open on. But all the essential service is air there that they have to transportation that they need that you know, all the basic things were there, but other non essential businesses should be closed and people should be staying home as much as possible. We closed the schools, close the bars and restaurants, but we want to carry out to be open. We went to delivery to be open on. We're just gonna do everything we can to keep people safe. But it's gonna hurt a lot of small businesses. A lot of people that aren't working, we're gonna try to provide some help for them. It's just a delicate balancing act. None of these are steps that anybody wants to take, but they're ones that we think are necessary to save thousands of lives. This week is the last week. Any idea about a superintendent Salmon has been meeting with? All of the local school superintendents are on a conference call every single day. I think she had another call with them today, and there may be some discussions about the next day or two about what to do with schools. I know they've been working on how we get more up to speed on distance learning and be able to do more things online. There's not a decision at this point in time about what to do. A lot of it depends on how long we think this'll crisis is gonna last. Whether or not they're going to be ready to go back to school anytime soon. We don't want to close down schools for the remainder of the year like one or two states have done, but we don't know. We don't want to bring kids back if they're not safe, you know, next week either. So we're gonna try to find the right balance and and then make sure we do the right thing. It's a decision in Virginia to clothe. Not really. I mean, uh, the District of Columbia made a decision to come back the end of April. They're all states making different decisions all around the country. We've been I was on a call yesterday with both the governor, Virginia, and the mayor of D. C. But we're gonna make our own decision based on our best advice from our doctors and scientists. And it'll be Karen Salmon, the superintendent. Schools actually has the power to make the decision, and she'll do that in consultation with all of our 24 superintendents, and she'll certainly advise us and include us in that decision. It's gonna be best based on what everybody thinks is the best idea for our state. Based on what you've seen so far in terms of a response, what's the biggest? The biggest gap in the response is just this lack of supplies and materials needed. That's it. That's the big issue that everybody's talking about. There's been long term planning, I guess, for this kind of, ah pandemic worldwide pandemic. But nobody seems like everybody was caught flat footed with respect to the lack of availability of these basic things, like, you know, tests and masks and on ventilators and supplies. And that's probably the biggest issue is that nobody has a plan for how to get this ramped up fast enough, and that's not pointing any fingers anybody in particular. But it's just all around the world. This is the biggest problem. It's hard enough to like he was referencing now to keep adults apart in schools 25 30 kids for Smith Ring touching each other, touching stuff. Yeah, we talked to a number of teacher. That's a big sign out there, so we're not gonna do anything that's gonna endanger our kids. And I don't think, you know, my personal opinion is I don't think they're gonna be ready to go to school back to school next week. But that's gonna be a decision that the schools will make an announcement on soon.

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