I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work.

Coronavirus edition. So I keep saying that. My opening for a while has been coronavirus edition,

but I really haven't talking about the coronavirus. So today is magic and the coronavirus.

So I'm going to tell the story of, or at least thus far, the story, of how the pandemic

has affected magic and affected me and such.

So today is that story.

Okay.

So the beginning of this story is we have to go back to, I think, January.

So in January, I am asked by our partners in China if I would come speak at,

there was a convention, there's a big convention going on in China, and they wanted me to come

be one of the main speakers at it.

And I'd never been to China before.

I was very excited.

And so I said, yeah, yeah, that sounds great.

I would love to come to China and speak.

And then I think a few days or a week maybe, a little bit after I committed to say, yes, I'm going willing to go to China we started hearing a lot of news about there's something going on in Wuhan China and such

and that but at the time I wasn't we weren't even 100% sure where the event was going to happen

and China's a very big place and you know no one really understood the scope of what was going

on in Wuhan so early on it was like oh okay well I actually the scope of what was going on in Wuhan. So, um, early on, it was like, oh, okay, well, I should keep my, this is something going on in China.

I, I'm potentially visiting China.

Okay, I should pay attention.

So I was actually playing a little bit closer attention than probably most people just because I'm like, oh, well, I might be going to China.

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