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has the opportunity to oversee so much of what goes on in one of my favorite places in the whole wide world in San Diego County and

Jim Desmond joins us right now Jim is good at having on the program I just I'm just I'm just an envious of your position because I just love

I love San Diego and the county itself so dog on much that I think it's I think it's super great to not only have you on the program but what you do

is so meaningful to so many people so thank you so much for being on the program that's enough my brown nosing all right I have you had enough to keep going a little longer

and not just keep it up I need to thank you very much

hey Jim I wanted to talk with you about the the situation going on not only in San Diego but around California where we have restrictions being put in place on a

number of different businesses as the virus continues to surge in in California would we have almost 8,000 new cases yesterday which is just it's crazy is terrifying of course

so I wanted to kind of get your take on what was happening with the businesses closing down and finding a finding a balance between between having a positive productive economy but also having very positive and healthy society

well you know it's a shame that some of these businesses are having a shutdown for us it's restaurants bars distilleries and wine reason breweries so well technical the restaurants restaurants can stay open they can serve alcohol but

that the bars essentially is which really closing down the bars are and the bars can only be open if they serve food and it has to be you know brought to your tables you can only have alcohol of it's an

in a meal setting you know I think it's kind of an overreach in the fact that you know bars actually when they open them up they seem a little risky to me when they first did that but you know it's

include wineries I have not yet seen a video of any you know any winery that's going crazy or gone mad with hasn't following social distancing and things like that but those and the and the breweries the brew pubs essentially we're shut down as well so

there's you know I think it's a bit of an overreach one of the things about we're doing a lot more testing and I know that's just not you know a lot of people hearing that we're doing more testing so we're finding more

positives in San Diego County and I think throughout the state actually you know we've been testing in the single digits you know as far as positive tests so ours is about four to five percent every day since we started testing four to five percent range of people testing positive

so for me that says like four percent of your of your population your entire population has the virus but there's few of them are showing symptoms we already know like 85 percent of them show no symptoms so what we're doing now is counting all of those people that have no symptoms

there are very little symptoms because our hospitals are hospital rates have kicked up but nowhere near the amount of they haven't kicked up nowhere near the amount of testing we're doing we're doing the double the testing we were doing a month ago in San Diego County.

So what have the rates done then because the testing is important it has somebody needs to seek a test right so is that like four or five percent of the entire population is four or five percent of the people who have sought out a test either because they're

either because they they feel like they may have come in contact with somebody maybe it's just that want peace of mind maybe it's because they feel like but and they want to see you know is this COVID or is something else going on right so it's not exactly four or five percent of the total population is four or five percent of the people that have taken a test as you so correctly point out testing the number of tests have gone up so what is the rate done of positives has that remain flat is that going up what's what's not doing.

It's still fluctuating I have gone up for a couple of days I mean we we average like I said like we look at a 14 day average and we're at four percent right now and I mean we were three percent a couple you know a week ago now we're at four percent it's still single digits testing positive out of the number of people taking test and about 30 days ago we started testing anybody that wants to test in San Diego County can sign up get a test or free so people with symptoms are not going to be able to do that.

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