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00:23:46.880I think this guarantees that we're going to pull our supply chain back from China.
00:23:54.440That was certainly at least the important stuff.
00:23:56.260Now, we might not do it overnight, it might take a while, but I would say it's a guarantee at this point that we're going to pull back our manufacturing for strategic and other reasons, economic.
00:26:56.020I loved your book, How to Fail Almost Everything.
00:26:59.380So, I'm wondering if at one point in your life you had to, like, start a new venture or project during a recession or a crisis.
00:27:07.260And if you hypnotize yourself to, like, look for opportunities or stay positive or something like that.
00:27:13.420Well, I've started businesses in good times and bad.
00:27:18.580And usually the only thing that matters is whether the idea is good.
00:27:22.380So, there are definitely a whole bunch of opportunities opening up right now, but they might look different from the ones from two months ago.
00:27:31.800So, there are definitely people getting rich right now.
00:27:35.140Some for good reasons, maybe some for not.
00:27:38.860But I would say, you know, this is a little hiccup, so you're not going to get much done for the next month or so.
00:27:47.940And I think that good ideas will still win and bad ideas won't.
00:27:52.200But I always recommend looking at it as a numbers game, which is that there are a certain number of things you're going to try in your life, and most of them won't work.
00:28:05.480You know, most of the people you fall in love with won't love you back.
00:28:08.880Most of the jobs you apply for you won't get.
00:29:12.560Out of the positives, I am not seeing anywhere what percentage of those positives are requiring hospitalization, and what percentage of people that are staying at home and self-care?
00:29:29.420I believe I saw that statistic, and I don't want to guess in public, but I will, just between us.
00:30:11.140And I would also think that the percentage of people who were hospitalized might change based on how much capacity we have.
00:30:20.960In other words, if somebody is like, well, I don't know, maybe we hospitalize them, maybe we don't.
00:30:26.140As long as you have capacity, you're going to hospitalize them.
00:30:28.400But as soon as it gets constrained, that same person, you're going to be, well, maybe they could work it at a home, but we don't have any beds anyway.
00:30:46.880In fact, there are a number of facts that I think the public would like to know.
00:30:54.240For example, if I had a little dashboard where I could watch how we're doing against this thing to make myself feel better, I'd like to see how many – I'll just use one example.
00:31:12.120And how many will be in the pipeline in three weeks?
00:31:15.060So you can sort of visually see what's happening and are there two companies that are trying to crank up to make more masks or are there 25 different companies that are making masks?
00:31:30.000And were there five yesterday but today we've got 25 because we're just spitting them up like crazy?
00:33:32.280Well, I think I caught your question before you got disconnected there.
00:33:37.700So, yes, it does seem like at least some of the Democrats are working well with the president, willing to praise him for his effort, et cetera.
00:33:49.300You know, I think that it probably won't.
00:33:52.340But I think it's really smart for Democrats to read the room properly.
00:33:57.100And I think the smartest ones are the ones who are saying, yes, the president's doing a good job.
00:34:01.960Now, partly, if they say he's doing a good job, he's probably going to be a little more helpful to the state that says he's doing a good job because it's human nature, right?
00:34:13.840It's like, well, we better say this guy's doing a good job so we get his stuff.
00:34:17.940Or it could be that they're just patriots and they know that complaining about stuff isn't going to make anything better because I'm sure they're complaining privately about anything they're not getting.
00:34:29.740But it looks like the cooperation between the states and the federal government is excellent at the moment.
00:34:35.340So, no, I don't think it'll last, but I think the Democrats are smart to judge the mood of the country that we're not looking for political infighting at the moment.
00:34:48.900And so I think that they're going to be able to say, look, I'm not always political.
00:34:53.640You saw that last time that I agreed with President Trump, and that proves that I can.
00:39:23.580Based on the information that we have and we can have now, how would we know the difference between a flu that was extra deadly,
00:39:33.840meaning it killed a high percentage of people, versus a flu that was extra mild but was way more viral?
00:39:41.420In other words, if 1,000 people get it but only 10% die, that's still more deadly, that would be a mild flu because, well, those numbers are not mild, but you know what I'm talking about.
00:39:56.480So if it was more deadly but not many people got it, you could end up with a lower death count.
00:40:03.340And I think that was the case with Ebola and stuff.
00:40:05.180So I'm not a scientist and I can't answer this question.
00:40:10.080So I'll just say that as an observer, how could you possibly rule out that it's a mild flu that just kicks some people's butts
00:40:20.040but way more people have gotten it that didn't have any kind of reaction at all?
00:40:25.460Now, that doesn't explain, though, why all the emergency rooms are overloaded everywhere because it just seems like the effect of this is worse than regular flus.
00:40:42.300But we often talk about the fact that the regular flu kills lots of people and you don't hear about it.
00:41:15.980I don't know how that could not be the case.
00:41:18.460But that doesn't mean it's good news or bad news.
00:41:20.620It just means we'll find out more and the problem is what the problem is.
00:41:25.620Now, the other thing that I've been hearing, I don't know how reliably because, you know, I'm not a doctor, but that the viral load makes a big difference.
00:41:35.000So if you get a whole bunch of it, and at the time of infection, you're sort of marinating it, you get a worse case of it.
00:41:43.360So what if the nature of this thing is that it's mild, but it's also cumulative?
00:41:50.680So that would mean that if you were just, you know, you had a grazing, if you were glanced, a glancing blow of the virus, you just got a little bit of it, your body would adapt in time before the virus got to big enough numbers.
00:42:06.380But, you know, what if it's really subject to a ventilation problem?
00:42:15.900You know, maybe that's its weird characteristic that if you're in a nursing home or on a ship or something that shares ventilation or just in close quarters, that's the problem.
00:42:25.220And so it could be, and I'm not sure if this is even a thing, because would you call it a weak virus if getting a little bit of it didn't take you out, but marinating it would, you know, is deadly?
00:42:43.820And is that different than other viruses?
00:42:45.700Would that be true of every other virus?
00:42:48.380Well, it probably has to do with whether it's airborne and whether it's a lung infection and stuff like that.
00:42:54.300But anyway, there are too many variables to quite know what's going on yet, because it's probably going to be some interplay of lots of variables.
00:43:48.360If you had it in your body, it would be doing nothing, nothing, nothing until you got infected, and then it would already be there, so it could jump right in.
00:43:57.320But there are better medications that are out there, and I don't want to go too much into them.
00:44:05.640And by the way, my background is biochemistry and physical chemistry.
00:44:12.940Once you've started to develop antibodies, the quinine reduces a transvigure called the interleutine series, and it reduces three of them that are all affected by corona, the disease.
00:44:29.040So that reduces the spread, and your antibody system can wipe down.
00:44:32.740So just to clarify, if I already had it in my body, and then I got infected, it wouldn't stop me from getting infected, but it would already be in my body, so it would more immediately address the infection.
00:45:02.100So it looks like the Senate plan for stimulus checks has come out, and I know that you had been arguing for everybody to go through and get a check.
00:45:12.700It looks like it's going to be a four-tiered system.
00:45:16.000If you didn't file in 2018, you're not going to get a check at all.
00:45:22.920So that's people on Social Security who make less than $25,000, the homeless, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:45:31.980If you make more than, I don't remember what the number is, $100,000 or something is the cutoff, then you won't be.
00:45:38.960And if you make under $45,000 or something, then you're going to get a half-size check.
00:45:44.940I just wanted to get your opinion on that and if you had seen that data that had been reported yet.
00:45:51.120Well, you know, the suggestion that I saw somebody else make, it was Wall Street Playboys.
00:48:32.480So that's an industry that nobody's really talking about, but it's been a big impact.
00:48:36.620Yeah, I worry that there are probably, you know, 200 job types in industries that are big ones that we're not talking about because, you know, you think automatically of a restaurant, for example.
00:48:49.680So there's something you just think of.
00:48:51.480But, like, I spent exactly zero time thinking about the rental industry, but you're right.
00:49:24.180Tonight, actually, I'm a waiter in Nashville, and tonight was essentially the last night that I'll have working for a while.
00:49:37.300And something that I like to say is that makes you, I don't know, makes you optimistic is when people are people, people being people, and the amount of generosity, the size of, you know, tips and things like that that people had and stuff was just really amazing.
00:49:57.740And even though, you know, there's kind of worry ahead about things like that in the next coming weeks, it really gave a lot of encouragement to people that need it.
00:50:09.560And it was really kind of an incredible night, even though it should have been sad.
00:51:39.780It takes me to last Friday, a week from today, last Friday, and we started a no-implement visitor policy going on, taking major precautions at our hospital.
00:53:48.060On that note, we are going to take off.
00:53:53.140It would be easy to be fooled by any anecdotal information.
00:53:57.660So, especially if you hear there's some young person died, I think you have to take all that with a grain of salt because I don't know how many times young people just sort of die from regular flus and other things.
00:54:11.980So, out of context, it's not telling you as much as you think it is.
00:54:15.240You've got to kind of wait for the pros to sum everything up and give you some statistics.
00:54:20.040So, don't get frightened by anecdotes.
00:54:23.400Wait for the pros to just give you the cold, hard statistics.
00:54:27.680And I think those will improve over time as well.