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I'm here with Dave Feldman today, who many of you will know,

and we're going to discuss the current crisis that's enveloped the world,

the corona virus issue.

And we're going to look at various aspects, some of the data,

we're both engineers, but also some of the personal impacts and the broader kind of context. So great to see you, Dave, again.

Likewise, Iber, things have changed a bit since we saw each other last. Yeah, I guess. It's a different world, as they say. But it'd be great to discuss some of the data and the impacts because it goes way beyond just the physiological impacts and obviously the illness and death that will occur and into the whole economy and how this affects people in so many vectors.

Absolutely. And like just about any other media that's being recorded right now,

we should announce the date. This has been reported on March 21st because of course, as you know,

data is changing so rapidly, literally by the day. In fact, it's, I was just reflecting on the fact that this is two weeks ago, I was mulling about

whether I would be going to low-carb Denver.

Because I had still had planned to go.

I had a whole bunch of interviews lined up, a lot of biggies that were going to be on for

the documentary that you know I'd been filming.

And I ultimately decided tomorrow two weeks ago to not go to low-carb Denver and what I thought

at the time was an abundance of caution because I had been traveling all around the world

that just the mere chance that I might, you know,

be an asymptomatic carrier for coronavirus,

I thought it'd be better if I stayed home.

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