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Yeah, I have a dentist appointment. I have pain already. Oh, no, no, it's okay. So So what does it mean for Omaha? You know, it means a lot for Omaha, obviously, with the NC Double A's announcement today that they're canceling all winter and spring championships, that means the College World Series goes with it. This was gonna be the 71st year the first time that's ever happened. S so that's that. All of this is a blow to every city into everybody's economy. It's a severe blow to Omaha's economy, but hopefully we take the hit now and then we move forward. You know, we have already seen that in China. It's plateau, the number of cases air going down. And we hope if we take extraordinary measures which a lot of organizations are on in school districts are now is that we will see the same fear that it will plateau, and then we will see the cases decrease. I think it's it's the best decision that the felt like that they could make for their athletes and for their players and for their families. And it wasn't an easy decision, I'm sure. But they didn't want to continue to allow the men and women who play spring sports to travel all over the country and to play games. And so they made this decision to cancel the spring championships. And so it's it's gonna be very difficult for I think, every city that it was gonna have these events in these games and, um, all of the revenue that the city will lose because of it. But the revenue that the city will lose is not the most important. It's public health and public safety. That is the most important. And that has to be first and foremost. And like I said, I think that if you wanna look at the bright side, if there is a bright side today, it is that will take our hit will do this now, try to control it and then hopefully we'll see a plateau and decrease, and we've done everything that we possibly could do. We have an estimated number of what that hit could cost, huh? You know, I mean, we would just have to calculate all of these different events. I mean, from the concerts to the basketball game to the College World Series, I mean, there's a lot of things that we would have to calculate. I will tell you for the College World Series alone, it's about seven, Really? So I mean, it's It's a huge amount of revenue that the city was depending on, that they won't get. But again, that's important because it's very important to our economy. But health and safety of our citizens is more important, and we just have to do what we have to do when we have to be responsible. We still don't want people to panic. The spread has still been very low that we know of in Omaha, and the CDC is staying very strong, was saying that they feel like 97 to 99% of the cases are gonna be very mild in some undiagnosed, and so there's only gonna be a small percentage that are going to be severe cases. And so we want to do what we can to prevent. Of course, we don't want any of those severe cases to happen, Um, and so we will be responsible, and we will do what we feel like we need to do without being in a panic. When did you learn that this was the address just this afternoon, I think when the NC double announced it No, no, no, no. This is just changing. As, in fact, some of the the, um events that I found out about I found out just by the way you do by email. One of the events that I found out about. I e mailed it to Roger Dixon and he hadn't even been notified yet. So we are all finding out about these announcements at the same time. I did get a call at 12. 30 today from Dr Golden at the med center saying that they were gonna announce at one. So that was 30 minutes before they announced what they were going to do is far as distance learning for classrooms for U. N L U N K you and Owen. You and emcee for the rest of the semester. Up until around May 1st I found out 30 minutes before everybody else did. I talked briefly to Dr Logan and Dr Sutton this afternoon, and they told me that they were gonna announce it for about the school district's. So we're finding out these things almost as quick as everybody else does. What about the events that are held on like city parks, like Tits of Omaha? And it's like that. Would you tell them to shut down? I mean, do you have any authority on that tour? Is that still a thing where we do, I mean that my authority is limited. But as far as on city property, like, for instance, our community centers are libraries are golf courses are parks. Of course, we could make some decisions. I Right now, I think that it's too early to make a decision like that. You know, there's still a glimmer of hope with the swim trials. You know, that's a different organization. That's USA swimming on DSO. You no way will wait and see if there's any decisions made by them. It's important to know that these that the city is not making these decisions right now. You know these these with the College World Series with the school district's those that were decisions that were made by other entities. I will say the one thing that I strongly encourage with Dr Poor today is of is with the ST Patrick's Day Parade on this Saturday. And although that's not a city organized event. It's it's organized by the ancient order of the Hibernian Hibernians. Um, we encourage them to cancel the event on their own. And they ended up doing that because we didn't feel like with everything else that was going on and trying to restrict people from getting in crowds, that that would be the best thing to do when also, when I saw last night, that seems like almost every city in the country that has a big parade, including Chicago, that always turns the river green. They canceled. There's Dublin, Ireland canceled. There's and so I thought that was the wise thing to do this or Disneyland shutting down. I did not even know that. You're telling me you didn't know. I know it's amazing what I mentioned the other day, and yesterday in my press conference, I talked to Warren Buffett. The other night. He called me and you know he's a very reasonable, responsible man, too, and he will do what's right for Berkshire Hathaway. He preferred to wait a month before the event, which would be the first of April, but he needs to have a meeting with his shareholders But whether he does it by, you know by live streaming it or whatever, he hasn't made that decision yet, so there's a lot that hasn't had. There's a lot of events that are coming that the final decision has not been made yet. We will help in any way we can, and I get daily updates from the med center. I get daily updates from Dr Poor were on the phone with her again this morning. She really has jurisdiction over Douglas County, as faras health does. But she is working with me very closely with me. If you have any idea where coming up this money that we're losing, you know, right now no, I mean, I really don't. I mean, like I said, it's gonna be a hit and we're gonna have to work around it. And and the best thing I could say is we'll take the hit now and then we'll move forward. And hopefully every day in the future will be brighter. But it's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt every city, and we'll just have to figure to figure that out. You know, we based a lot of our revenue for the city of Omaha. How we fund every city Department on sales tax revenue and occupation, taxes and those air going to be much, much lower than we anticipated with the budget. With the event cancellation like the same grade, I know that you recommended that it be cancelled and then asked the Douglas County Health Department if this event goes against a recommendation like that, is that when the Health Department might, if she feels like it, shouldn't happen? Or she feels like it is something that she needs to intervene, that it's Dr Adi Pour. That would really make that decision. But I she's very, very careful and very cautious. Her interests are in the and protecting the community. Um, I think a lot of her decisions come in the form of a recommendation and not a mandate, because that's that's kind of how she is. Um, and she does. She's excellent at what she does. And so we talked this morning, for example, about the fish fries I have. I have a bigger concern with the fish rise, and I really did with the parade, because with those fish fries, there's thousands of people that wait in long lines in close quarters for hours, and I go to him every Friday night. But that's a concern to me, too. And so both Dr Poor and I would recommend that And talk to the Catholic Church is about the future of the fish fries at this point in time. But you've got to think of the financial hit to the to the churches, too, because they based a lot of their programming, their sports a lot on the revenue that they make in depend on every year with these fish fries. So it's not just the city of Omaha. A lot of companies, a lot of businesses, a lot of non profits. They're really going to take a hit with this tall trees canceled. Well, I think that the issue is they're not gonna allow their players to play spring ball, and they're stopping winner sports in spring so there won't be any teams to go to the College World Series. So if they're telling the players now that winter sports men and women and spring, which they're starting now are cancelled and they're not gonna be traveling, I could hardly say they're jumping the gun because there won't be anybody to play the championship game. Do we know how many people could be losing jobs with these cancellations from College World Series and March Madness? It's really hard to tell at this point. You know, I mean everyone that I've talked to so far, for example, about you and Oun Lun K and U N M. C. The plan of keeping the ancillary personnel, you know, the staff, the the house, keeping the people that work in laundry, the people that work in food service. Dr. Gold said it was part of his announcement today is that they would still be keeping their jobs. They would still be working, and if they were sent home, they would still be paid. So you know, a lot of this is hard to tell what individual businesses will do because not every business so far has shared with us what their plan is going to be. But I will say this. That's a big concern to many of us that what you know, what about these folks that air hit hard individually in their homes by that wonder if they their business isn't gonna pay them, how will they pay their rent and How will they pay their mortgage and how will they afford groceries? And those types of things are the human side of all of these, these cancellations that we really have to keep in mind, too. I know what we're doing. We've never had a pandemic like this that we're dealing with it in this way. This is new territory and new grounds. But I will also say we really gotta consider not just the financial impact of the city but individuals and how it's really gonna hurt them. And I know that there's a lot of members of the philanthropic community that are already talking about What can we do to help those people in that situation? There's also a lot of false information that I think is really concerning to a lot of people they're getting. We had a call the day about that M U D was gonna shut down and so nobody would have drinking water. I mean, there's a lot of false information out there, too, and I think the most important thing that we can do now and we've we've opened up a new page on my website city's website and then Douglas County and we managed both of those pages from this office is to continue to give people accurate current information. Everything we get, we're gonna post. We're not keeping anything from anybody, you know. It's really yet in that. But with the money to the city will not be getting any thoughts on what department might be cut or where you might have thio. You know, it's I do very, very careful city budgeting. I meet with the budgeting team and the finance director more than once a month. We're working on the 2021 budget now. The estimates are just not in there yet, but we always do very careful budgeting, and we will manage with what we have now. Of course, the things that the two departments that take up most of the city's general fund or firing police. They take up 2/3 of the general fund. That's a department I don't want to cut. And so there's a lot of questions out there right now. There's questions about the election in May. You know, how is that gonna affect the election that Secretary of State called me the other night and he said, Please tell people in your press conference sign up by May 1st to vote by mail because we're not going to cancel the election. We're not gonna cancel the primary. We don't want you to lose your vote. But if you don't want to or you don't feel comfortable going to a pole, then sign up in vote by mail. But will this affect the election in the primary? In the outcome? We don't know. It's uncharted territory right now. How long could it take to bounce back from a loss like this this year? You know, it's it's with with a virus like this, typically, um, it will spread, it will plateau, and then it will go down. They predict of everything that I have received so far from from U. N. M. C. Department of Health, CDC that a six month period about 64 to 6 months is about the average for two plateau and start declining. And so not not a full year, maybe not even half of a year. But the hit during those several months is gonna be hard. And like I said before, if I take the hit now and then we could start moving forward in recovering, and we hope that's what will happen. This is this virus is is quite different from the common flu virus. Usually, viruses have a shorter incubation period, usually 2 to 3 days. This one is 2 to 14 days. And so that's the big question with testing to is, you know, if you're tested on Day two, you might test differently on Day 14 you know, And so it has a very long incubation period, and that's why this one is so challenging. And and I will tell you this. They are testing. There's a lot of people, even on social media today that saying that that we're only testing people that have done international travel. That is not true. That's not true at all. What we are suggesting, and the department health in and Douglas County Health Department is suggesting that if there's three criteria, that is that you have symptoms. Um, you have been exposed to somebody that is tested positive for covert. 19 are you have been you have traveled in a high risk area that includes within the United States and international. If you any one of those three and you are sick, call your doctor telling the symptoms. He will determine whether he thinks you need to be tested or not. We're testing all three of those categories, so it's not on Lee people that have been doing international travel. Guys, we have time for one more before I have the mayor in the car. But keep in mind that that the spread now has been very limited within the city of Omaha. What, what with these cancellations and what we're trying to do is keep it that way. It's a limit that spread, and hopefully if we do, we'll see it plateau in a shorter period of time. Then the longer and like I said, that could be anywhere from typically from 4 to 6 months this time next year. I am sure that there it will be over, you know, and there will be probably an antiviral that will work against it, hopefully usually 12 to 18 months for a vaccine. But all of these air a little bit unsure because this is such an unusual type of a virus right now, You mentioned yesterday about the city workers working from home is ready that they could Where does that stand right now, our city workers working from home? No, there has not been any change yet. And so everybody is reporting to duty just as usual now. But we wanted to. We wanted to make sure which went along with my executive order of the six, which is last Friday, that every single city department had a plan. They updated their continuation of operations plan the identified critical personnel, and I really wanted to know that, if necessary, if every city employees except, of course, those that are the first responders that don't work from home. But but some would, you know, they possibly could, depending on their jobs with police and fire department. If we had the network capacity for everybody to work at home and we do, we have more than enough capacity. So if it comes to that, then we will make a decision who will work at home, who's essential personnel? It all depends on who's exposed, who gets sick, who's been in a high risk area of travel. It all depends on those things