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You know this is as bad as the government telling you that masks don't work even a little bit. And you just look at it and you say well that's not just a lie. That's a lie like you think I'm really stupid. That's the sort of, what do you think of me that you would tell me the fabric doesn't slow down air and you would expect me to believe it? Well like how dumb do you think I am? And then you see…
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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 unusual if I went to the gym and tried to exhaust myself, you know, try to get the most benefit I could. And you know I don't have to do much later so I just like wear myself out. But I don't do that because I would lower my immunity temporarily. So instead I changed my exercise habits so it's long walks instead of say using the StairMaster, running or anything like that. Because the long walk is just nothing but good. It's like it's just good for you and you feel it. So I told you before that I'd skip a day in the middle of this to see how differently I felt and there was a big difference. You know my whole, how much I, well I, my attitude, my stress, everything was different just because I did or did not take a walk. And so yesterday I just got overwhelmed with stuff to do and I didn't have time and it was raining and I didn't get out. And man I felt it. 1 a.m. this morning I woke up and I was just up. Yeah, I was just up for the day because I didn't exercise. So my body wasn't, just couldn't sleep that long. You know if I don't exercise I'm good for three or four hours of sleep and then my body just, it's like it has to go do something. I can't sleep after that. But if I've exercised I can.
All right. Here's one way you know your government is failing on this crisis. I think we'll get to the end of it and we'll do what we have to do. But there's going to be a lot of, you know, mistake, correction, mistake, correction. And we should look at that generously when it's done because nobody knows what to do. And that's just the fact. Nobody knows what to do. We got to try stuff and then quickly correct if it didn't work. But one of the things that you would have to say is clearly a mistake if it goes on much longer, and much longer would be I'd say end of today, if you don't see good reporting on which hospitals need which supplies and, you know, what their peak need would be, what they have and what's in the pipeline for them. If you don't see that reporting by say the end of today, doesn't have to be perfectly accurate but at least the beginning of that, you know, that system for reporting, I would say we're not competently handling this. Because you don't manage something you don't measure. If you don't think that's the most profound statement in all of human psychology and management then you have not studied those fields. This is the most profound and important thing you'll ever hear about getting groups of people to do something. And it's this. If you don't measure it you're not managing it. You're just flailing around.
So you have to be able to measure what the situation is and then on an ongoing basis
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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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