Hello, this is Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to episode 317 of my podcast. Who's Paying Attention?

Wow. So it is April 8th. We're more than a week in April. You know, I haven't even done my

newsletter yet, which I try to get out in the first week of every month. I think I, like many other

people, have gotten a little too comfortable being home and not working with this pandemic thing.

And now that the world is opening some places slowly, some places maybe a little too fast we got to get back to work i got to

get back to work i got to get off my ass and get working so uh you know if you read the newsletter

i appreciate it and uh bear with me i promise i'll get it done this weekend uh speaking of the world coming back too fast, I was just reading.

Usually I go through the news before I do the podcast, but now it's kind of going

through it at the same time.

And forgive me for this background noise.

That is actually the news story I was going to talk about.

Florida reports the largest increase in daily COVID cases since February.

Now, I know we're all shocked.

We're surprised that would happen.

But what they're saying is that people are getting back to normal a little too fast.

People are definitely getting vaccinated and businesses are open here in L.A. and California,

we're doing indoor dining now. And they're talking about the Lakers and the Clippers,

opening Staples Center, I think, April 18th.

So in 10 days, they're going to have live basketball.

And you know, you probably saw the baseball game in Texas with 40,000 people.

They're saying that's going to be a super spreader.

So we're not out of the woods, but we're doing better.

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