This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers, of democracy, truth and justice,

believers, and peace, freedom in the American way.

Tom Arbin here with you, live from Portland,

where yesterday we got notice that we have now

officially one case here in Portland there's 300 people who are

looking at and I think there's what around a dozen that have been

confirmed in the state but this was one right in Portland that hadn't gone

anywhere hadn't done anything had just been hanging out in town,

and boom, he's got coronavirus or she, we don't know.

So you know, it's spreading.

We're all Seattle and New Rochelle and it doesn't mean that we need to be

freaking out and frightened it means that we need to do something we need to be

thinking about this talking about, moving forward in a

reasonable fashion. But just consider where we're at and why we're here. Two years

ago, it's just absolutely mind-bogg. The day after the 100-year anniversary of the 1919 flu,

right? Two years ago, almost two years ago, the Trump administration shut down.

The New York Times, by the way, they're, I guess it's really a podcast.

It's called The Daily.

Tells this story brilliantly today. It's really worth checking out.

But anyhow, they shut down the two high-level offices in the White House that were responsible

for dealing with a pandemic. One of the Department of Homeland Security, the other in the

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