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Ah, I put out a number of different executive orders today. One of the ones involved restaurant service in Florida. We had restricted that initially statewide, but did allow limited sit in as long as they were spaced out enough so that someone couldn't infect someone else. Um, and the thought was that, you know, maybe they get a little more business and can stay afloat. And then sometimes families just need a place to go. The vast majority of restaurants did it. They abided by the restrictions, some didn't. And it's just the type of thing that you know, we don't have time to police that. So we're going to take out and delivery on Lee, um, which is, you know, somewhat unfortunate, because it's gonna be hard for some of these restaurants to survive in this environment. But one way I think we can help him is I have waived Africa below regulations, and we will allow the restaurants to deliver with meals, alcohol deliveries as well. Um, and then because we stopped the bars on ST Patrick's Day, a lot of people had bought a lot of good stuff for that night, were actually waving regulations to allow him to sell it back because the retail there's actually big demand for this. And so you know, some of these small businesses were able to do that. They may even get a premium on it because it's such a demand. So we're trying to help his best we can, but we've got to do what is what is safe for everybody. We also issued an executive order stopping elective and unnecessary surgeries. Part of this is you don't want those elected surgeries to take too much space in the hospital. Um, you want if there's a surge tohave Maur more beds available, but actually, the more we looked at it, much more than even that was just the personal protective equipment. This is in such short supply that we need to make sure all our health care providers are are saving their pee pee and using them for potential cove it 19 patients. And so that executive order goes into effect immediately.

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