resident's messaging on this, you know, being muddled and getting some facts wrong and stuff. So it wasn't building confidence. He has the wrong personality for this situation. He's just a natural salesperson and politician and all that but it just doesn't fit the problem. And I'd been hoping to see him adjust because everybody's adjusting, right? You know that's what we do well as a species. We adjust. We're really good adjusters.

And the president apparently has adjusted. Apparently he has adjusted. And I didn't see it but I understood the president okay yesterday's event where they were just updating the public. I think he just sort of made some introductory comments and then let the experts talk. Exactly what I wanted to see. It's exactly what I wanted to say. So the country needs to know that the government is hearing it and then it's responding in real time. I think the country spoke as one. You know of course there were some hardcore Republicans who were just in the president's camp, but those of us who were just trying to be helpful, I think we spoke as one and said all right Mr. President, with all due respect, your messaging on this is just not a good fit. You know maybe you could let the people who are the experts at this be more of the messaging. And it appears he's done that. It appears he has done that.

So do you feel more confident when your public has a concern, your government hears it, you can see a response in real time? This to me is the right response. You should feel good about that. And I'm gonna remind you over and over and over again that the normal way civilization creeps forward is by making mistakes and quickly correcting them. In an emergency you should see more mistakes because for all the right reasons the timing is compressed, etc. You should see an enormous amount of mistakes in the beginning but you need to see fast correction. Are we seeing fast correction from our government? Yeah we are. We're seeing it really well I would say.

So you know you can always argue something should have been faster and I wrote about that in my book "Loserthink" that you can always say that. There's nothing that's good that you can't say should it happen faster. So if you hear the people saying here's my criticism, something should have happened faster, they're not legitimate players. That's not a legitimate comment. Could be true because everything could be done faster but it's not a legitimate criticism because it's a universal truth that everything could be done sooner.

So let's represent fast correcting their problems. Shout out to Representative Gillum who went into alcohol rehab. I have a little rule. It goes like this. Roughly speaking if somebody does some embarrassing behavior in public I'm not above having a good time with it and thinking well it's their own damn fault. And in a political world of course we're more likely to make fun of the side that you're not supporting. But when somebody goes into alcohol rehab, and I think this is legitimate, I'd be surprised, very surprised if this is some kind of an act in which he's pretending to be an alcoholic or something. But when I see somebody make that move, he did it publicly, and by the way I don't believe any of his story about what happened. I don't believe any of that. But I also don't care. Do I care? I mean that's between him and his family. I care about his family then but I don't care about it personally. It doesn't affect me.

But he went into alcohol rehab and here's my rule. I always praise people who would make that step. No exceptions. Doesn't matter what you did before that. If you can make that step and you're willing to take the heat of admitting it in public, especially although in this case it probably helps him, I just say congratulations and thank you. Congratulations and thank you. It would work. Now that's all I want to say about Andrew Gillum and now he needs to go work on himself. But I want him to know at least from one person that at this moment I'm in that decision. I'm completely supportive and I appreciate it and I have full respect for that.

How many people have died? How many doctors have died from past flus? Now as we're trying to figure out how much is the right amount of being worried and how much we should not be worried, one of the questions