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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 f…

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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 things but they're just flailing, you know. And many of those things are productive. Of course it makes sense to make more of the stuff. So there's some things you can do where they're actually managing it. You just know you need more of it so everybody makes more of it if they can. But it's not being managed. Management happens the moment you see the reports even if inaccurate because they'll get better over time. That's when management begins. So don't think that we started managing. That hasn't even started yet. And so you look in the comments everybody's agreed.

All right. That's enough on that. I will talk to you tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern Time, 7:00 p.m. Pacific. Don't miss it. Bring your blanket.