situation.

Can the numbers we see for confirmed cases be taken seriously? I don't know what seriously means but you've got to take all of the numbers you're seeing, every estimate, every ratio, every raw number. You just really have to be skeptical of it all and I don't see that changing.

There's been a steady drumbeat of outrage at the restaurant minister in Florida. I don't know that story. Was that somebody who refused to do social distancing? Was that the guy who was driving around and driving people to his church or something? I don't remember the story.

All right do you think this pandemic experience will sway any views on the role of the government in health care? Yes I do. I do. I think that the odds of some kind of major healthcare restructuring that somehow is informed by this or influenced by it is very high because this is such a big health care event that it should start influencing all of the ways we think about health care in general. Now predicting exactly how that comes out would be the hard part but that it influenced it? Probably. Not guaranteed but probably yes.

Does the COVID virus attack testicles as Alex Jones suggests? Well when it comes to testicle related science I do go to Alex Jones for my testicle news and I believe that in this case Alex Jones is compatible with the science. Now again everything you read about anything in this situation is suspect but I can tell you I did read an article that looked credible that said some number of people had testicle damage from it. Apparently it's been harder on men than women in general and then it could affect your testosterone production which does make you think that would be like the perfect weapon. Imagine a virus that just made the other side not as aggressive. What about that? That'd be quite a weapon.

Do you think Trump was pacing the American public at the outset? It looked to me like he knew a lot of people would reject the ideas. In other words the idea of closing everything down and socially isolating. So he paced us meaning he acted the way we acted until he needed to tell us to act differently and then we followed him. I don't think he did that intentionally but that's what happened. I do think that the president's credibility went up because we saw the journey. Yeah we the journey was public. You know in public he was like well let's get back to work you know let's push it maybe go back a little earlier than the experts say but let's do that. And then we watched the we heard the story of the experts coming into the Oval Office showing him the numbers and then he changed his mind. And so because we saw the whole journey it makes you actually feel confident. It's like oh that's kind of maybe what I would have done in that situation. So I think he handled at least the decision-making and yeah I think you could make this distinction. I would say the decision-making is very good. Trump's decision-making. But you know there's always something to quibble about the co