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Jeff Polin is a mover and not just like basic home moves.

He's the guy you call if you need to uproot your office to an entirely different building.

Jeff will organize all the people and all the logistics to make that happen.

He's the guy who knows the guys who get things done.

I just stand, touch with a lot of people and with what I do for a living, I am in and

out of companies every day.

I'm in and out of government facilities every day.

Jeff does really complicated moves and he loves that.

I was built for chaos.

But you can't book moves when people can't go into buildings.

So Jeff's business all but shut down in early March.

He needed a new way to make money.

And about that time he got an email.

This was March 13th.

I was sent email from the state of Illinois that went out I think to a thousand small businesses.

The CC email addresses filled six and a half pages.

State officials were either trying to be very transparent or are just not familiar with

BCC.

I mean, if you looked at the head of the email, just they sent it to everybody that is registered

to state site asking, can you get any of these PPE items?

Personal protective equipment.

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