Covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the elected officials that have had the response ability to make very tough decisions with limited and highly imperfe
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions
Comfortably. Hawkish headlines on china and weak Economic Data both weighing on market sentiment. The dow is down 300 points yearly it was down 350 about 20 minutes ago. We have 59 minutes left in the session. Big show coming up four. A true 2020 winner, et ceteray stock is up 250 this year we will talk to the ceo Josh Silverman about the holiday crunch and whether his companys momentum can continue. And arthur blank, cofounder of home tee poe, owns the Atlanta Falcons and atlanta mls team as well lets focus first on the stories we are watching today. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action into the close meg tirrell has a vaccine update and phil lebeau has an update on nikola, that stock down020 today. Mike santoli first to you and the markets. A mild shake of the tree. Indexes backing off. Some of the stuff that was up the most this month is down the most today seems like a little bit of trimming there are probably unbalanced portfolios there you have we are roughly capped we were
Fighting with just south of one can measure, which im good at will conduct missile attacks to foil military movements in massaro and asmara through undertake every other kind of measure to foil efforts to subjugate the take rate. People inside say gray or other places, thousands of people are back on the streets of perugia, protesting the dismissal of former president martin. This kara process have been ongoing for days. Now at least one person has been killed in the unrest. This car has been banned from leaving the country last week to doesnt teach them it. Allegations of corruption protests to say. His removal is politically motivated. Thousands of supporters of u. S. President donald trump have been demonstrating in washington. D. C. Many echoed trumps claims of frauds during last weeks election. Multiple news outlets had to clear joe biden, as the projected winner for the president s hasnt yet conceded the election. I think armenians have been destroying their own homes as they lea
A transitional period. The majority in the room do not want the status quo. This is not an acceptable alternative. It is not sustainable. Everybody recognizes that the hard summer. Many libyans just passed through with no electricity, very little water, and all the other hardships and the pandemic, really, i think, was a wake up call. The leader of ethiopia has to agree region has confirmed that his forces fired rockets at the airport in eritrea as capital. He says the Ethiopian Military has been using as Morris Airport to launch as strikes on t. Gray. The attack marks a major escalation in the 12 day conflict. As a by john has agreed to extend the deadline for mania to withdraw from a disputed district of cul de jour. As part of a deal to end fighting over a back have been scenes of jubilation in peru after interim president , you know, announced hes resigning after just 5 days on the job. He had been on the amount of pressure to stand down after replacing martin. The scholar who was