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It's really important that we be well informed right now as we as individuals, business owners, and as a country,

or on our back foot is we try to deal with the consequences of coronavirus, and want to tell you that at Clark.com and ClarkDeals.com, we are working hard to serve you around the clock.

So I promised something a few days ago, and I want to try to explain where we go from here, most likely as a country.

I want to share with you that we have been successful here in the United States, and as well as other countries that were late out of the gate on doing things to do.

We have been able to deal with the potential deaths of coronavirus. We have tried in the aftermath of not being ready right away to try to reduce the number of deaths with these shelters in place or quarantines or state restrictions or whatever.

We have unique language for this. We've got many different terms people use, and they interpret them differently in different states.

But the reality is the number of people that we're going to lose as tragic as the loss of life is, is much less than it looked like even just two weeks ago, because Americans overwhelmingly have, in fact,

taken precautions, creating distance from others, spending a lot of time at home. But with the consequence being demolishing our economy, same story and other countries that have made a decision to reduce deaths and take the economy down several notches.

Because if you look at Sweden, which did not do that, the death rates have been really ugly. We've been so busy looking at what's going on in the United States.

But Sweden's idea of just letting things go on as normal, creating the herd immunity, has come at significant loss of life versus the population in Sweden.

We in the United States have a very heavy lockdown, but this cannot go on for an extremely long period of time.

Every month that goes by that our economy is in lockdown, it means there are jobs that will not come back, businesses that will shutter permanently, and the consequences for us as a nation are so severe.

So how do you go about getting people back to work?

Well, first of all, let me give a preamble, the likeliest guests from people in public health of when the coast is clear is somewhere around the second week of May, where the shelter in place around the country will have really done its job, reducing the number of people who get coronavirus, the number of people who die from it.

But I want to deal with something that is a grim thing, and that is when we reopen, if we just suddenly say, okay, go back and do everything we're doing before, it will create a second wave of disease.

So how do you reopen? You do so gradually, and I want to share something that is not really talked about, and I want to be careful, this doesn't sound colder and personal in any way.

But two-thirds of our nation's population is under the age of 50. The people under age 50, and remember that's like 67% of our population approximately.

That 67% accounts for somewhere roughly around 4% of coronavirus deaths.

The reality is, as someone ages, and particularly past age 50, every decade, the number of people who end up having adverse medical consequences from coronavirus rises, and the number who die rises.

So it is, for whatever reason, a disease that generally, even if it impacts somebody under 50, the impact is generally relatively light.

A huge percent of people under age 50 who have sadly passed away are people who have one to three pre-existing medical conditions.

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