Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello America, welcome. It is Eric Erickson across the nation. The phone number,

877373425, should you wish to be on the program.

It is Friday.

We are going to be a little looser on the phone calls, so we might otherwise normally be.

I want to begin by hopping into the way back machine and visiting a little bit of unpleasantness,

but I do think it's needed

to be done. This is from three years ago.

I just wanted to read, there's an answer to this.

Oh, yeah.

Go ahead, Tadie. He was my mentor, so I'm going to have to let him speak.

The small print here, it's really small print, in states with evidence of community transmission,

bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.

So, Mr. President, are you telling, Mr. President, are you telling governors in those states then to close all their restaurants?

Well, we haven't said that yet.

Haven't said that yet, but then they did.

It was three years ago, actually last night that President Trump shut the nation down, told

governors to shut the nations down, issued the guidelines by which to direct the nation

to shut down. Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, shut his state down for about 30 days.

He reopened the state.

And when he reopened the state, he was blasted by Donald Trump.

This morning I wrote he was attacked by Donald Trump twice for reopening the state of

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