Back summary openings. A lot going on in the states and around the country as the numbers continue to spike. A question for you has the pandemic impacted your behavior and if so, how . 30,ou are under 2027488000 . 50,een 30 and 2027488001 . Age,u are over 50 years of 2027488002 . You can also send us a text message at 2027488003 or facebook andt at twitter. We begin with this piece that marks the difference between these latest couple of weeks. Surge is not the same as new yorks crisis. The virus that ravaged northeastern u. S. Cities is surging through western states. It is different this time. Younger people are getting sick with covid19. States that have brief lockdown are encouraging social distancing and mask wearing. Many have embraced the usual summer rituals. Health officials are sounding the alarm of outbreaks going through house parties. Some took the end of stayathome orders as permission to live their lives unimpeded. Old, bentez, 30 years the night at a nightclub sharing drinks. Two days later he felt sick and the next week he was on a hospital oxygen tube after testing positive for covid19. I am a young, healthy, active person with no previous conditions. I did not take it seriously. I was not practicing social distancing. I did not wear a mask. I thought i was invincible. He went from not knowing anyone with covid19 to knowing 15 victims. He is recovering now at home. At wsj that,. Hat. Com. Here is a little bit from dr. Fauci from yesterday. [video clip] i do not think there is time enough to try and analyze and figure out the multifaceted elements that went into that. Everything from opening to early on some, to opening at the right time, but not following the steps, to actually trying to follow the steps, but the citizens did not feel they wanted to do that for a number of reasons likely because everyone feels the common feeling of being pent up for such a long time. We are not going to try and analyze it, but there is something important about it that i would like to get a message to the country in general. When you have an outbreak of a Infectious Disease it is a dynamic process that is global. Remember what happened in china affected us. What happened in europe affected us. What happened here is affecting others. We cannot get away from that. It is interconnected. If we are interconnected, we have to look at the fact of what our role is in trying to put a end to this. Everybody wants to get back to normal and everybody wants the economy to recover. I think we are pretty common in that. That is a given. What can we do . What i think upon talking to a lot of people, we have such an unusual situation because of the decades i have been involved in chasing Infectious Diseases ive rotea inen anything so p its way to make people sick. Disease that goes from 40 with no symptoms, some going to hospital, some getting intensive care, some getting intubated, some dying. Depending on where you are in that spectrum you have a different attitude to this particular thing, but anyone who iss infected or is at risk part of the dynamic process of the outbreak. I know because i can understand when i was at a stage in my life where i said, i am invulnerable so i am going to take a risk. I think what we are missing is something we have never faced before. A risk for you is not just isolated to you because if you of anfected, you are part propagating the dynamic process of a pandemic. The chances are if you get infected, you are going to infect someone else. Host you can watch the full briefing at cspan. Org. He and his colleagues will be back on capitol hill tuesday. It is a morning hearing on the senate side. That will be on cspan3 live. We are asking this morning whether the pandemic has impacted your behavior. We will get to your calls as soon as they come in. To the math, the New York Times talks about hotspots. As a friday night more than 2400 2. 8 Million People have tested positive for the coronavirus. Out just under 20 500,000 have died from the virus in the dark spots on this map tell the whole story. Things of gotten lighter in the north west part of the county. Florida moving into south florida are dark, parts of South Carolina, and moving to the west in that southern tier. A lot of dark spaces along the gulf of mexico. A lot of trouble in the houston area and when you push west on this map you see the other andpots in arizona california which has problems in the northern part of the state, but also southern california. These are the new hotspots in the United States as of yesterday. The mapwas the published yesterday. Florida walking back reopenings. S. Yesterday. Sed bars write both texas of florida are backtracking amid a crisis of rising hospitalizations and skyrocketing infection. Governor republican ordered bars and restaurants to close and gave local authority to ban outdoor gatherings. One in 10 texans has tested positive in the largest hospital is full. Let us go to our first call. Steve is from charleston, South Carolina. Good morning. Has the virus impacted your behavior and how . Caller it sure has and i hope you and your family are doing well. Host thank you. Caller i have altered. My behavior drastically i try and practice social distancing and being a senior, i am more vulnerable than a lot of the population. I wear a mask when i go out, but the problem is i had to go to lowes last week and some people are careless. All, but it is not mostly young people. They think they are invincible. Either they do not care, they do not believe the doctors, or they think they are invincible. I do not understand the attitude. These people who are not are putting everyone at risk. Steersteve, do you clear of them and how do you do that when you go to a public place . Do ever talk to somebody who you think should be Something Different . Caller i have not confronted anyone. My wife is pretty outspoken and we cannot go out unless three have to. Arrowsw walmart has the for oneway aisles. Sir, i thinkmaam, you should be going the other way. Strong, iite that guess, but not too far for me theres a watering hole for young people and they opened as soon as they could. They are closed again now. In South Carolina we are getting new cases all the time. We are still growing in numbers people. Fected b people just are not taking it seriously and i do not understand that. Host thank you for your contribution. Nina is calling from florida. What is the condition in the area . Caller we are between tallahassee and jacksonville we had a huge outbreak in our nursing home. We got that under control and it was not because they sent covid19 in their. Outbreak from a staff member. I am 59 years old and noticed in the Grocery Store people who look as old as me or older are not Wearing Masks and i think those are the ones that should be. I understand what the young people would not wear them, but i am shocked we do not have enforcement. We have the guidelines we should wear masks, but it is crazy people are not taking it serious. Host what you make of the performance of your governor and other state officials in the crisis . Caller i think Governor Desantis is good opening the beaches because i have heard outside and sunshine will help shred the virus instead of staying indoors. I never could understand why new york make people stay indoors with all those apartment buildings, but i think the outside does help. Nice sunny state. One point i wanted to make was it is two weeks from now we get more hotspots, i really believe this will be the tester now. In two weeks we should see something because the protesters are not Wearing Masks either. That was one of my other minds. Host thank you for calling from florida. Close to 9000 new cases in florida friday. Here is a little bit more. Governor desantis ordered bars to close immediately because of widespread noncompliance with rules of capacity and social distancing. The announcement came as Health Officials announced another 9000 infections friday. Average cases of 77 from one week ago. Back to texas, this reflects the activity of recent weeks including memorial day and summer activities permitted under the reopening plan which started may 1. Wishful thinking got us here said the Harris County judge in texas. Dallas county, sorry, records 10 deaths and a record single day high. The governor last night and this morning basically said they opened the bars too soon. John is calling from lincoln, nebraska. Caller thank you for taking my call. The numbers as far as nebraska showed, i amap you not sure how accurate that is. There were people back in october and november showing symptoms. I think they were dismissed as pneumonia or misdiagnosed possibly. There was also people just not going to the doctor so i do not think those numbers could be correct. I think our governor might be handling the situation not so good. He is funding places he is going to money from places that force people to wear a mask. It was something along those lines. I think other countries with universal health care are handling this a lot better. Host thank you for calling. Nton is calling from florida. We are in south point beach. Host what is the situation . Caller it is a nightmare. I think it is a great hoax. Host let me stop you there. What makes you call it a hoax when you see the numbers and you see the officials out there . What brings you to that conclusion . Caller the numbers are a joke. I have someone working in the medical field and i remember on your show it was another host they asked a female doctor does anybody really dive this virus . You have it somewhere in your archives. Yes, nobody dies of it. If you are sick in nursing homes, of course they die. That is why you go to a nursing home. I have never been sick a day in my life. Never have been, never will be. It, inject to cure hydrogen peroxide. It is a hoax inspired by the communist party. Host let me ask you one more question about florida. Governor desantis reclosed bars in the state. Do you agree with any restrictions or limitations . Caller nothing. I would rather starve than where wear a mask. Host thank you. Florida theiruth recent spike has affected the drinking in miami beach. Florida has joined texas in banning drinking in bars while miami closed beaches and parks and times for fourth of july. The drastic measures come as floridas cases continue to soar. Bars reagan half sales from rake in half of their sales from alcohol. They are still allowed to sell it, but they are not allowed to open. The behavior of Public Officials has changed. Roberto from houston, texas. What are your thoughts . 71 and i was one of those not wearing a mask. I am not wearing them because they are required to enter an establishment, but i think we are obsessing too much on masks. N95 maskday that the only the medical community can wear really works because it prevents you from getting the virus. But the otherod, thing is this. I think we are assessing about masks, including the media, when they do not work. Putting a cloth around your mouth and nose . What . I heard on the radio about a week ago they studied it scientifically and it requires 1620 layers before a mask works. Host if a mask does not work, are there other precautions you have taken or think you should take. Caller i think social distancing. In the Grocery Store it is hard, but i also heard this. Casual encounters are not going to impact it. I also heard on the radio the beaches, there is a breeze and that helps carry the virus away. There is a lot of contradictory evidence and to prove anything scientifically concerning causation, let us take a step back and quit overreacting. It is not a hoax. It israel, but the fact it spread so quickly around the world explains to me we are not in control of everything. Now in control. Host thank you for calling. Heres a headline at the houston chronicle. Urge to heed red alert threat level. Text message from bill in connecticut. I do everything to keep my immune system strong by eating fresh food and not eating processed junk food and sugar. The u. S. Obesity epidemic paves the way for this one. Laura says, i can no longer hug my daughters and grandkids. My husband is a wreck trying to keep everything infected so i do not get sick. We have not lost any family or covid. , i am on themina go all the time. Now i am a homebody and learn to embrace it. Im catching up on my lover reading, cooking, gardening, putting puzzles together. Im getting back in touch with me and loving it. From the White House Briefing here is dr. Birx on how to stop community spread. [video clip] we really want a call to action. When we started talking about what can be done we said the most important thing that will stop the spread i know tony is going to talk about it is individual behavior and respect for one another. I just want to end by thanking the millennials who have come forward. We see the testing right really improving in the under 40 age group. That is continuing to accelerate testing among that age group because that is the group most mptomatic have asy spread. Nobody is intentionally spreading the virus, but they do not know they are positive. They do not have symptoms and need to be tested. We want to thank them for coming forward and really enriching the amount of testing that has been done in the under 40 age group. To our older population, you know if you are over 80 we ask you in these hotspots in states having expansion, to continue to shelter as much as you can and use your grandchildren to do your shopping. Host dr. Deborah birx from yesterday. Missouri, whatl is the situation and have you changed your behavior . Caller i social distancing. I do not wear a mask. Our cases have increased a little bit. E have got 90 cases i was in walmart yesterday and i do not wear a mask and social distance and there was a lady who had a mask on. Tookad to sneeze so she her mask off, sneezed into her arm, and put it back on. What is it going to do if you do that . I put myh and public, head down so it does not have a chance to spread six feet. I really think the guy from houston was 100 correct. The 71yearold guy who called in. Distancing, but Wearing Masks i have worked in agriculture my whole life. A cloth mask is not going to keep that germ from infecting you. Host you said you are in negra culture. You saiduation you are in agriculture. Has your situation changed at all . Caller there is more demand for produce than ever. Taken any impact at all. Host thank you for calling. Is mucci . Orida, this is that correct . Caller yes. People do not keep distance or where masks. I wear a mask all the time. Two months ago i asked somebody close to me to have distance. They said you have symptoms . I said no and they said dont come. They forgot people cant have no symptoms. Can have no symptoms. Donald trump is campaigning until the second of march. E has to be removed [indiscernible] he did not consult the scientists. I am a scientist. Biology. Olecular host thank you. Thens hear from fred and Speaker Pelosi in a moment. Fred is calling from ohio. Have you changed your behavior . Caller i would say i changed my behavior, but because of government action. First, i think it is absurd. Microbes do not obey governments. The woman who sneezed . The essay it was mandatory and she would have her mask on and she would be all right. I was always thinking about data. Official theo an and establishment was obey and he would take my word. I brushed up against a guy. If it does not spread, that would be data not recorded because i would not report it. I would not want officials to know. I think it is all skewed. I think we have approached the authoritarian state i am not exaggerating but we have come close enough and i resent it. Host that was fred calling from ohio. Here is a headline from the hill. Trump not wearing mask is cowardly. Speaker pelosi accused trump of being cowardly for not wearing a mask amid the pandemic and said she would support a policy to make wearing face mask mandatory in public. She held a briefing yesterday and expressed concerns about the latest rising covid figures. Heres more on what she had to say. [video clip] we have a pandemic. , 36,000 couple of days cases. Cases, a, 40,000 further record in the president essay slow down on the testing. My purpose here this morning is about health care. Science, theing of resistance to all of the advice from scientists. The early delay caused deaths and now with a spike or seeing the president is saying, slow down testing. Others said he was joking. He does not say that and by the way, this is not a laughing matter. It is a matter of life and death. Host they are bringing the house in early on monday. They have a busy week before the july 4 break. One of the items will be a bill to shore up portions of the Affordable Care act. The Trump Administration tells the Supreme Court of obamacare must fall. This is a story that moved yesterday. The Trump Administration has reaffirmed its position that the aca is illegal because congress eliminated the tax penalty for failing to purchase medical insurance. We will see how that plays out in court in congress. We have dan from north miami beach. Paint a picture of miami beach for us. What is the situation . Cspan. Thank you for i actually live in a place called abbott chur that used to be miami beach. I wear a mask for two reasons. It makes sense. But t like to wear it, i hate to use the expression the new normal and to get into any public place you have to get one. Heardn feeling is what i from three different doctors on National Public radio about three months ago. All of them said whether we like the humanour race, race, is going to have to acquire herd immunity. I know that is a nasty word, but it is true. Another that is what has to happen. Either from vaccine, which is far from guaranteed, or by 60 70 of the world population. That is a lot of people getting it. I do not like it anymore than anybody else, but with all that is going on and all the medical geniuses and i am not saying that in a wiseguy way we have to accept the fact we are another group of mammals on this earth. Millions have come and gone here and we are far from we are the new kids on the block. These viruses have had much more time to work on us. Fiu you mentioned international university. Universitiesg about whether they should open, how they should open. Any thoughts on those colleges in florida and what should be happenin