WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:63000 1 00:00:30.890 --> 00:00:32.630 Any and all available staff, 2 00:00:32.660 --> 00:00:37.130 please report to the lobby it's of a somewhat 3 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:42.530 somber circumstances that were called together at this moment 4 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:48.440 to say the health and safety of every 5 00:00:49.730 --> 00:00:54.440 citizen of our state paramount importance to us 6 00:00:56.470 --> 00:01:00.530 means you announced earlier this morning, we, as a state 7 00:01:05.690 --> 00:01:06.350 virus, 8 00:01:06.350 --> 00:01:10.700 COVID-19 we are living very scared, 9 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:14.360 very scared just by the grace of God. 10 00:01:14.390 --> 00:01:16.640 I stumbled into the United way this morning, 11 00:01:17.240 --> 00:01:21.050 but I can imagine other families that may even have it worse than me. 12 00:01:23.090 --> 00:01:26.630 I can't even give them. And that to me is just, 13 00:01:27.350 --> 00:01:29.420 it's like trying to do my job with mittens. 14 00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:34.160 You're living in a parallel universe. If you don't think this is real, 15 00:01:34.730 --> 00:01:36.800 this is real. Um, 16 00:01:37.070 --> 00:01:41.720 and the numbers are going to continue to increase by the 17 00:01:41.720 --> 00:01:45.530 very definition of what this virus is. Um, 18 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:48.680 and we need to do everything that we can do, 19 00:01:49.610 --> 00:01:52.310 what we have control of our own lives. 20 00:01:52.940 --> 00:01:56.420 While we wait for a vaccine nice and relaxed, 21 00:02:07.130 --> 00:02:09.290 we're going to have to make some sacrifices here. 22 00:02:09.350 --> 00:02:12.500 We're going to have to live differently and we should not. 23 00:02:12.920 --> 00:02:14.960 We should not live in fear. 24 00:02:15.470 --> 00:02:19.820 We should channel that anxiety and energy into doing what we can do 25 00:02:20.510 --> 00:02:25.100 to bring down that, to bring down the numbers and the level of anxiety. 26 00:02:27.530 --> 00:02:32.150 None of us have gone through anything like this on the 27 00:02:32.150 --> 00:02:35.660 scale that we're going through on a day by day basis, as it, 28 00:02:36.110 --> 00:02:38.600 as it is rapidly evolving. 29 00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:41.650 But to think about how far we come tomorrow, 30 00:02:41.660 --> 00:02:46.640 you'll recall one year milestone of our first 31 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:51.500 case reported in the news this weekend, 32 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:56.000 because of these nasty times, the nation sites were sued 33 00:02:59.410 --> 00:03:03.490 the total number of positive COVID-19 cases with full 34 00:03:03.490 --> 00:03:07.990 vaccinations. And that is a, um, kind of powerful, 35 00:03:08.050 --> 00:03:11.800 positive, um, milestone to achieve. 36 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:20.960 [inaudible].