This is the Tom Hartman program.

Tom Hartman here with you.

I am broadcasting from home today out of just an absolute abundance of caution because we don't have any

testing kits and I think we all need to to take this seriously in a way I'm trying

to provide an example Nate Nate and Sean, and we're trying to figure out

if it's even possible for all of us to work from home to remotely run our show.

But this is the starting point and you know just in case you know I've

been on a bunch of airplanes in the last couple of weeks. That's you know know, a risk, I suppose, you know, the, all of us, you know, we just all need to be taking this very, very thoughtfully and carefully.

Tom Hanks and his wife were in Australia.

And he said, we felt a little tired,

like we had colds and some body aches. Rita, his wife, had some

chills that came and went, slate fevers. So being in Australia, of course, you

know, you can walk into any clinic anywhere and get an instant virus

test and so they walked in and they got a virus test and they came back

positive for both of them. Now of course in the United States you can't do that. You've got to be really

really sick which means that you've already gone through a week and a half of shedding viruses

all over around everybody you know and then you know if you also have the flu you won't get

tested and and odds are you know no matter what you may not get tested I mean this

is this is just really mind-boggling stuff and you know I've mentioned I've got two

kids who are in in primary health care here in in Portland and one of them just texted me this morning. Community

spread here in Portland is starting to really accelerate. We're getting a lot of

reports. I think without being hysterical it's time for us to get pretty very

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