It's tragically fitting that we're talking at the beginning of Holy Week because this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans lives, quite frankly. This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9-11 moment only. It's not going to be localized. It's going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that. But I also want them to understand that the public along with the state and the federal government have the power to change the trajectory of this epidemic.

It was really tough news. It was tough news for all of us to take in on whether or not you're a Celebrate Palm Sunday or not.

To have that news come across from the Surgeon General Jerome Adams was difficult because you're thinking, I don't even feel like I've got a grasp of all of what's happening yet.

And yet we're hearing that this is going to be our Pearl Harbor. This is going to be bigger than that because it's going to be across the United States, across the board. And my heart goes out to the people in the most afflicted cities, of course New York.

I'm thinking about you out there and what you're dealing with and what we're hearing. And yet we still have so many questions that we want answered. We still don't understand this virus.

We still don't understand China's part in this and what this means. But we don't even have time to understand it because all we're trying to do is mitigate and stop this virus.

From killing more people. And that's why we've all been locked down. And you know, I'm going into my fourth week of lockdown. I only know that because I've turned in, you know, I'm not sitting here counting the days on my calendar.

But I am turning in my daughter's homework packets every Monday. And so this is going into the fourth week of homework packets. So, you know, being at home, trying to do the podcast, working with my daughter all day and in between, hopefully breaking some stories, which I will be doing on this show as well.

It's difficult. We're all dealing with this. We're all in this together. Like we keep hearing over and over again. I was outside yesterday with my husband. We took Sunday, you know, after watching some of the news and said, Hey, let's clean out our garage. Let's finish it up.

And our neighbors were across the street. And they were outside with their kids. And we were all keeping our distance. And one of our neighbors has an elderly parent who lives with them. And it was just very sad. You know, the relatives came over to visit.

And they were standing far away from the door as the grandmother was waving. And, you know, they were recording her on their phone and, you know, probably sending it to other family members. And that in my neighborhood, people are walking with their dogs and, you know, trying to stay healthy and going for runs.

But there was a sadness. You could feel it. People just don't know what to do. We don't know what to do. And I think all of us have been feeling that way, dealing with this in our own ways.

And right now, let me give you some of the stats here. We've got, you know, very sobering stats more than 1,288,372 people infected globally. The numbers are rising over 70,482 dead worldwide.

In the United States, we have 337,933 infected. And right now, the death toll is at 9,653 dead in the United States numbers rising.

Jenny Tehrer posted a story today, New York City is preparing to dig what they consider maybe a mass grave in the park to bury the dead.

A lot of you out there have lots of questions because people just don't know they we just don't have a complete grasp of what this virus is, right?

It's very, very virulent, which means it, you know, just having someone talk very close to you or sneeze on you could get you infected.

Now we've seen people not just the elderly, but some people who are younger. So we have to ask ourselves a lot of questions. Where did this virus? How did it emanate? Where did it originate? We know Wuhan, but where did it come from?

And this is something that our intelligence community, I know this from very well placed sources is looking at very carefully.

What was China's obligation to the rest of the world? Did it just come from the wet market? Could it have come from the lab in Wuhan, a bio level four facility that handles these type of viruses and may have fiddled with these viruses.

We don't know. But China lied to us and China lied to the world about this. And we have to hold them accountable. That's my opinion, but it's also the opinion of others who are experts in this field.

They need to start telling the truth. They need that is the Chinese Communist government needs to let us know what happened here.

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