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Ladies and gentlemen, Starting Strength strength radio welcome back to starting strength

radio we are here on Friday it's like we are every Friday and this Friday is a little

different as you may have noticed interesting things are happening in the world and we thought we would not shirk from our duty to at least address them for you.

I don't know if we'll make any more sense than anybody else.

That'll be for you to decide, but we're going to talk about this COVID-19 situation today.

And we're not going to talk a lot about the numbers. And we're going to

explain why that is. By the way, we're here with our friends, Andrew Mueller, who is an oral

surgeon here in town. He's a man of above average intelligence, and we're here

with Dr. Bradford, a woman of above average intelligence, and you'll have to make your own decisions

about me. But both of these people are well educated.

Staff's degree is in pharmacology.

She has a PhD in pharmacology from Duke.

I don't know if we've mentioned that before, but it's worth noting that she has had both

research at clinical experience.

Andrew is both an oral surgeon and a doctor.

A business owner.

And a business owner of multiple businesses around the state.

And is in a position to address the effects of this situation, not just the medical effects and the physical

effects, but the financial effects, which have only begun to be profound. So let's talk about

a little bit of this data. And we're going to talk to you about what the data is and what it is not. All right now as of today the coronavirus case. Cases reported. This is tested positive

are nine hundred twelve thousand nine ninety eight the deaths are forty five thousand

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