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an't believe anything about any Harvey Weinstein stories. Who knows what's happening in there. But certainly he would be the target for that virus. Are you working out more often now that you stopped going to the gym? The answer is yes. Well you know I always worked out every day that I could and I'm still doing that. But I think I'm working out better. So what I changed was it wouldn't be unusua…
← Previous segment →what am I doing to fix it and how much difference is it making. If you don't have that mechanism in place, and we don't, it's obvious we don't because you watch the task force and they're just guessing. They're like well we got a shipment here and there's a plant working over here but there's no kind of idea of the total of that and what it looks like for the hospitals. So at this point the task force is not, it can be said as just a fact because that reporting is not in place, it's simply the fact that it's not being managed. Would you agree? You can't say the task force is managing the critical supply because they're not measuring it. That's just a fact.
All right. Everybody's got a background in management and maybe even psychology in some cases. You'll see in the comments there's a hundred percent agreement for the people of that skill set and that talent stack. Nobody will disagree with this by the way. Nobody will disagree with the statement that if you can't measure it you're not managing it. Right? Just that that is as hard a
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fact as there could ever be in the behavioral sciences and economics and management. So but the good news is that Vice President Pence clearly acknowledges that need and he said yesterday that they're working hard to talk to the hospitals and gather that. Now once gathered I would say they're managing. But I would also say that up until today nobody's been managing it. People have been doing thing…
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