Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the may 19, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk okay. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov or sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The record will reflect that since the declaration of local Health Emergency as a result of the covid19 disease, the members of the board of supervisors are participating
And now is the best time to do it. We are doing a good job, but we could be doing much better and time is of the essence. And last week and is a bad time to be gutting the smta board when the decisions need to be made with quorum, with qualified advocates like director rubke who is a passionate advocate for disabled and the people with disabilities community. And last but not least i love for this making duty free for all. And to come up with funding structure and build ridership up and those who do not feel comfortable riding muni, we need to have space to use bikes to get around the city safely without conflicting with cars so we dont see a spike in deaths related to vehicle collisions. We continue to have vision zero in mind. Mr. President , it seems as though there are no other callers in the queue. Oops. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Okay. All right. Seeing no other callers, then Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call the for adoption without Committee Reference age
That completes the risk off picture. Take a look at that bloomberg 1 . Ar index, up about a haven to bid. Investors going into the breen back into the greenback the midof this dismal data. David are the any individual stocks doing particularly better or worse than what we are doing overall . Abigail relative to the horrible Economic Data, some sectors are down even more. One of the big headlines this morning was u. S. Retail sales for march plunging the most ever, down 8. 7 . Core, pvh corps down 14 . Ge down 18 . Industrial production tumbling the most since 1946. The homebuilding sector tumbling the most ever, even more than 2007. Lennar, one of the largest homebuilding companies, down nearly 8 . The reason that stands out is this is a Health Crisis and many analysts are saying will this turn into a financial crisis . Not signs of that happening yet because of all the liquidity the fed is injecting, but could it turn into a housing crisis . The fact that we have the homebuilding sent
Life expectancy continues to fall. What is this distinctly american phenomenon that you found . Well, mortality rates are not supposed to be going up for the past century and most wealthy countries, the u. S. Included, weve seen our Life Expectancy in the u. S. , the mortality is supposed to be going down, but it is backwards. What we have seen is the death rates in the working age population increasing, and reversing years of progress that we have made in improving the health. What is behind the study . Why did you do it . Well, our center of society and health at vcu studies the Population Health trends as have other experts in the field. And we have been aware of something awry for many years, and recently many years of Life Expectancy decline for three years in a row, but the analysis is showing decades of the making and the u. S. Started to fall since the 1980s. How does it stack up against other countries in the same time span, and other economicallydeveloped countries. That is t
And then everyone, including a lot of his supporters, said that was a very wrong thing to do . Well, guess what . Yesterday Tweety Gonzalez pulled out his Little Orange thumbs and he did it again. This time he attacked a woman who works for mike pence currently. Her name is jennifer williams. Shes a special adviser to the Vice President. She was also listening in on trumps now infamous call with the president of ukraine. There were more people on this call than there were at his inauguration. [ laughter ] so in her closed door testimony williams says trump specifically mentioned the name of the Ukrainian Company hunter biden worked for. Its called burisma. But that was omitted from the transcript the white house released. You know the one the president keeps telling us to read. Well, turns out maybe that transcript has been sanitized for his protection. Trump of course as soon as he heard this went right on the attack. He called this woman who works, again, for his Vice President , a n