Hey, I'm Eric Taylor. Thank you for listening to the Hair Game podcast. This is a special episode.

We're not going to do a pod lute today on this episode. Actually, when I said that, I felt kind of bad about it.

So let's do an impromptu pod lute. The first to DM the Hair Game podcast right now will get a certain surprise podlute.

Not sure what it's going to be yet, but I'll come up with something cool. I'll make it worth

your time. DM the Hairgame podcast Instagram account. We're going to send you something cool.

This is a special episode. I'm simply going to give you my thoughts on where we are with COVID.

Obviously, a lot has been happening. I'm recording this on July 21st, which is a Tuesday.

I'm going to use data. I'm going to talk about data, but I'm going to hopefully do so in a good informative way, talking about the data

from July 17th because that was the day that I put it all together.

Okay, it's taken me a couple days to put my thoughts together in a good, cohesive, productive,

informative, and maybe at times educational way.

So here we are, it's Tuesday, the 21st salons have gotten shut down in California again.

People are pissed off about it. I definitely don't blame you for being pissed off about it.

I'm a little pissed off about it. News is relentlessly reporting spikes of cases and making

it seem insane if you want to even leave your house. The information I'm going to give you today,

and my viewpoint, by the way, is not political. To me, since the beginning of this whole thing,

I think I've done, this is my third COVID-specific episode.

My viewpoint is not political.

It's objective based on the numbers provided by the California state government.

I'm going to focus on California because that's where I live and that's where all of our salons are shut down

and all of our beauty professionals are very upset here in California.

So you can certainly do this in your own area.

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