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in the United States, we continue to have new cases. As of this morning, there were 712 I believe with 27 deaths guaranteed. By the time of this evening, that's gonna be up and there'll be several war. And tomorrow there'll be several war. So we realize that this is something obviously that we've been saying all along that we're taking very seriously. Now the question is, what are we going to do about that? And there are a number of things that one could do in order to blunt it. If you look at the curves of outbreaks, you know, they go big peaks and they come down. What we need to do is flattened that down. That would have less people infected that would ultimately have less deaths. You do that by trying interfered with the natural flow of the outbreak. As a nation, we can't be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago that it doesn't matter if you're in a state that has no cases or one case, you have to start taking seriously what you can do now. Are you in an environment where you can tell a work. Are you planning on going to large gatherings like church? Do you live in a community that is being particularly impacted by the Corona virus? And you can find out this information from your state or local health department? Does your state have a hotline that you can call in to help you assess symptoms? And we have really leaned into corona virus dot gov. Please send people to that website. We've put the tools on there for individual groups specific audiences so that people can understand how to say sticks stay safe. If we follow this prescription, we will we will overcome the Corona virus a CZ Dr Fauci said. We will see more cases. Unfortunately, we're likely to see more deaths. We have not hit the peak of this epidemic quite yet, but if we follow this prescription, then we will decrease the number of people who were impacted. We will decrease the number of people who will die and we Wilmore, quickly get to the end of this situation.