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The Mark Simone Show

Roger Friedman

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Friday. It's a beautiful Friday. It's supposed to be 80 degrees today. Well, it kills that virus. 80 degrees. Some sunlight. That wipes it out. We got lots to get to today. We'll get to crazy Joe Biden. His brain now completely fried. We'll get to President Trump. We'll get to a crazy little Dr. Fauci. We'll get to who's reopening all over the place. Not us, but everybody else is open. Joe Bartlett's in South Carolina. You can go to a restaurant, right? You can go to a store. And it could go anywhere I want. You played golf yesterday? I played golf yesterday. Fine. Social distance, you know, one person to a cart.

0:38.9

Oh, okay.

0:40.7

But golf, you don't really get. There's no reason to get close to anybody in golf.

0:42.6

It's not a contact sport.

0:44.2

No.

0:46.1

So here's the deal.

0:49.0

The governor has reopened.

0:50.8

How many, is it five counties or five sections of New York?

0:53.7

Yes.

0:56.1

But not us. He's extended us until June 13th. It was just June 7th. How did we get to June 13th? What is it

1:02.1

with this guy? Oh, you're not getting released anytime soon, pal. Well, I'm moving to Connecticut.

1:07.4

That's it. Hey, Connecticut, May 20th. When is that? Wednesday? They're opening.

1:12.8

Restaurants will be open. It's going to be outdoor dining only, but they're going to be open.

1:17.1

The governor, the mayor, everybody in New York totally bungled up the whole lockdown, everything

1:22.7

from the beginning. They waited too long to close down. They screwed up in February and March in the

1:29.7

beginning. But Florida has handled this in a brilliant way. Florida has been great. As we mentioned,

1:35.5

Palm Beach County reopened. On Monday, people have been going to restaurants. People have been

1:41.2

going out doing stuff. Now, the problem is you got Miami, which is a very densely populated city, almost the same population as New York. It's pretty close. Fort Lauderdale is a densely populated city. But guess what? Monday, they're reopening Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Dade and Broward County are reopening on Monday. Pretty impressive, isn't it? What's going on here? Everybody else is opening.

2:02.3

Yeah. Everybody is opening except Governor lockdown. This is all based on the metrics and the numbers.

2:09.9

How many hospitalizations do you have? Are the cases going up? Are they going?

2:13.7

But then he shows the chart. The hospitalizations go way, way down.

2:18.4

The thing is, the whole idea here was to flatten the curve.

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