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Government Trust Shift
00:03:04
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| What have you have you analyzed this and talked to the leaders in Washington? | |
| Well, I haven't talked to a lot of leaders in Washington on this. | |
| Here's my sensing nationally, though, in terms of a national mood, and that is I see we've been through three phases, is my estimation. | |
| The early phase was one of kind of denial and shaking our heads and saying, what? | |
| And that all changed on about March 13, 14, 15, that weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. | |
| I saw a complete change atmospherically, so to speak, in my country, where people said, oh, this is for real. | |
| And they hunkered down and they followed the mandates. | |
| They started trying to get masks. | |
| They made sure they washed their hands over and over and they stayed at home six foot distances. | |
| And so Americans really tried to comply overwhelmingly. | |
| And that continued for five weeks. | |
| But another shift took place just a few days ago. | |
| That was April the 17th, 18th, and 19th. | |
| I sense a shift, a paradigm shift in the country. | |
| That was another weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, where all of a sudden people were saying, wait a minute, enough is enough. | |
| They'd gone five weeks. | |
| You know, it's interesting. | |
| 40 days is mentioned a lot in the Bible. | |
| It's kind of like we were down at day 40. | |
| And it's kind of like that's as much as Americans can go. | |
| And they also realize, and this is where it gets serious, if there's a lack of trust in our government, we have a pretty critical problem happening in our governors and our mayors and such. | |
| And so there were some overstatements made that so many millions are going to get it and one or two million are going to die. | |
| And then they factored it down to, well, okay, 240,000 Thompson, and then 60,000. | |
| And Americans begin to distrust their government on this. | |
| And they also did not want one size fits all. | |
| They wanted to be able to adapt to their environment and bring government down more localized, which I totally support. | |
| Always localize the authority anytime you can, because localized authority can do better than somebody generically, you know, a thousand miles away. | |
| And so we do have a, it changed, it changed as of that weekend of April 17, 18, 19. | |
| I saw the mood change and people saying, no, we're not going to stay at home. | |
| Now, the protesters, by and large, they had a legitimate claim because they were objecting to the overstatements. | |
| However, if protesters want to have credibility with their government leaders, they ought to be wise enough to have masks and gloves and protective gear. | |
| And they ought to at least stay six feet apart. | |
| They shouldn't just flaunt it. | |
| Some of those, when they do that, they're going to end up getting the virus themselves and perhaps some would even die. | |
| So they need to be wise in their protest and have credibility before government leaders to say, look, we can go back to work and observe the rules. | |
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Vastly Reduce Infections
00:00:30
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| Allow us to open certain things and we'll observe the social distancing rules. | |
| We'll try to be prudent. | |
| It won't totally stop the coronavirus, but it'll vastly reduce the number of people infected. | |
| So the protesters need to exercise a level of respect and responsibility for them to have credibility. | |
| But I'm generally supportive with some of their claims, objections. | |