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welcome to the book write podcast it's a weekly news and talk show about epidemics.

At least, I mean today, we were just talking about before the show, we were going to talk a little bit about what's going on in the wider world just because it feels weird not to and it does affect it's affecting everything so of course it

publishing and reading is something so it does affect that but we won't spend the whole time on it because I know it feels weird to talk about it

Then it feels weird to spend the whole time doing it, but such as life and you know we were just talking to yesterday and today like it's affecting our real lives

You know Rebecca you have someone in your house that works in the financial markets which has been

Unsettled I think is is one way of putting it.

That might be the understatement of the century.

My darling Michelle, you know, runs an architecture firm here in Portland and they have employees that work in an office and they're trying to figure out to do we have employees all over the country

My brother works in the food distribution industry and I was talking to him last night and the

orders for his company are down like 40% like overnight went down 40% and I

know it's affecting so many of you out there and take care of yourselves out there and I hate to do this too and it just feels like one of the situations I have a horrible bias against what comes out of the White House but the kinds of things

that is being said there versus what needs to be said is so so insufficient.

Did wash your hands stay home if you're not feeling well, you know, listen to people that are actually talking about science because there's actually a lot we can do together to make it not as bad as it can be.

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