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At the end of the day, while people will listen to what you say, they believe what they see. and while i hate that these are the experiences that have been cast upon our community, our school districts, these are the realities and we have to find a way to mitigate them. many would say that closing schools would be the best way to go about that. many would say that vaccines would be the best mitigation effort. but in some ways we have observed vaccinated employees come down with the virus and we have observed those who have not been vaccinated who have been able to avoid it. so, again, it's an ...

To put those things into words. i remain heartbroken for each of those families and their loved ones. but that's where we are. >> losing your life to covid complications, that's the way it's reported. now, look, there could have been comorbidity, but covid seems to have been a factor. does that drive kind of a breakthrough for people in your area that, hey, listen, this is more serious than we expected, the vaccine, i have to consider it? >> i hope that it does. i believe that it does. and that's the reality, chris. at the end of the day, while people will listen to what you say, they believe ...

New daily cases, a ten fold increase from early june, people are angrier on all sides. >> a lot angrier. what i find curious, the debate is very focused on masks and mask mandates even though you still have -- in areas of the country where vaccination is very high, you still are not seeing an uptick in deaths. the vaccines are working, they don't prevent all breakthrough infections but they're a tremendously good mitigation effort. yet in places like florida, so the coverage, the criticism from the mainstream media is about how you can't have a mask mandate in schools because of governor de sa...

Another. you're either going to infected, run the risk of death and miss starling's case, she had a ten-fold higher risk of dying than say a child with this infection. you get up in your 80s, talking 600 fold higher risk of death. so you've got a choice. your fears and infected or go with the science, get a vaccine. as miss starling said, save yourself all that misery. >> where are you on mask mandates? do you believe it was a mistake to remove some mandates that were in place or is it time to reimpose some? where are you on this? >> absolutely. masks are a helpful mitigation effort. like ever...

Dollars of work. the objective was to shore up the side and to allow control of the channel so the channel didn't move anywhere else. part of it also that it would essentially catch small land slides sluffing off one side or the other that would come through. that was in 2006. we have been through, good grief, a lot of floods, and that community felt safe because of that mitigation effort. it was extensive. people knew this was a landslide prone area. sometimes big events just happen. sometimes large events that nobody sees happen. and this event happened, and i want to find out why. >> so to ...