Welcome to our Facebook Live So wiggle I'll update every day Monday through Friday, five PM. Y'all know this one this is Andra Rise up Y'all I'm Times Oh, Yeah. Thank you for listening to our Facebook live update. We have some special guest for you today. just wanna shout out a couple of people before we begin as I usually do Mitchell how you doing a lot? Eber Aquino TD Holland. How you doing Luis Ortiz Good to see you on here. Man Sarah Lebron. How are you? How you doing? How are you why you should How's everybody doing glad to see you all on the on our live appreciate you being here with us today. We're gonna get started. We have a bunch of incredible guests with us today that are gonna help us deliver the information to you this afternoon. We have Ayesha's the President and CEO of New Alliance but she is also. part in charge of our contact tracing program here in the city of Newark director Phil Scott, who is our director of the Department of Engineering in the city, who's been heading up our data team as it relates to this covid- 19 stuff and all the things that I report he analyzes and get that get that information to me. so I can get it to you may have to talk a little bit today and doctor Joe Akagi who is with partners in health who is partnering with us about his contact tracing and we are deeply deeply indebted and happy that they're here. US to deal with this virus and we're gonna get at it do what we can to make sure that it is no longer harming us here in the city of North and we can protect our families so we thank them for helping us get this done. I'm gonna start by giving out the numbers that we have like I usually do. And we have 6520 - nine positive cases yesterday we had 6462. That's an increase of 67 so it's a little bit more than it was yesterday in terms of the increase. it's actually it's twice as much as almost that we had yesterday, but the number is still low in comparison to what we've had in the in the previous weeks that I left field talk about that a little bit direct to Scott. we have 527 deaths in the city yesterday. At 520, so it's seven additional deaths. Seven is a lot, but it's certainly what we usually have Ssss County is 16103 positive cases with 1520 deaths New Jersey has a hundred and 42790 - eight positive cases with 9956 deaths yesterday, I was able to get on a call with some folks from the North. It was a great call. I just want to shop those residents out from Forest Hill, Laura Broadway and all the folks that were on that call who had a first time. You look at the numbers in that area and and we're very concerned and support of the city's efforts and work and try to make sure we recover from this. so just the zip codes 07102. we have 230 cases of 7103 745 07104 1288 07105 982 0710670207107 1040 907108 540 - 60712518071142. 62 so you know your zip code. You know that the with the numbers look like in your neighborhood in your area. please take it to those numbers and do it do what is necessary to protect yourself and your family the deaths by saying zip codes are also 710220 - 40710390707104 110 on 710530607106604071076. 407108 61 071240, -, seven and 071420 - one positive cases. I mean, excuse me debts in that area in the city So and as as the state opens up at a faster pace that we are in Newark I'll give you those numbers so you can understand why we are not moving as fast as the state that we have a different cohort. Here in the city and our numbers are dramatically different than they are in Ocean County. they are in Cape May County and and and all of the southern parts of New Jersey. where the beaches are. so if you Memorial Day feel like you wanna get up and take your family to the Beach. I just want you to be thoughtful and careful about those decisions because you're coming back home to this area and we would definitely would not like you to come home with something you didn't leave with. it's important. That you take these things into consideration as you maneuver around the state based on what the governor's orders are, and he has to be the governor like I said for the entire state of New Jersey has a difficult job. I'm not the governor of the state of New Jersey by the grace of God. I have to worry about you guys here in the city of Newark and so my my determinations and everything that I make is based on what the data that I get here in the city of Newark. so let's just be mindful of that. we're gonna be coming out with. A few things next week to kinda tell us where we are and what we look like in terms of the summertime opening up and what that looks like for new residents. I know you're a little anxious. We've been in the House for two months, but look it's been working. It's been a two -month period that's been working and we need to hold the line until we get a clear pathway for y'all so and I know what I'm talk a little bit more later, but I wanna give these folks to give you some information here For the. US I wanna first introduce Ayesha Glover give her an opportunity to talk about what what she's doing and how it's impacting the city. Thank you, Mister Mayor and thanks for having me on I'm happy to share a little bit about the contact the efforts that are underway, obviously been listening to you and the information that you've been sending out to the community to make sure that we're really clear on what the process is I have been reading and I'm fully aware of what other countries are doing what that's look like in in in South Korea. what it's look like in Indian but today. What we're hoping to do and what the mayor has been doing is wanting to make it clear on what that looks like for you right and so there's a lot of misinformation. There's some fear tactics. There's some things that are 100 percent valid just a round of a legitimate privacy concerns, but the the methods that the city of Newark is currently using is really rooted in good old fashioned phone calls and so the the. That the mayor asked us to help stand up with in partnership with the Department of Health, is really rooted in how can we help to get in front of this as quickly as possible by alerting people that came in contact with someone who was who tested positive? Fortunately, we have a highly collaborative city we've had institutional partners we've had philanthropy. We've had folks that have. Historically partnered very well with us whether it's Rutgers whether it's the MCA foundation and others that have said how can we support and lend additional support and capacity to the city? so with that we were able to identify and help bring on partners in health. so joy is gonna share a little bit of more about what their role is we've been able to partner with Rucker School. Public health The Global Health Institute with Rutgers New-york to their lives and translation program, so we specifically working with folks that have a capacity and expertise we've tapped into under utilized city employees or city employees who quite frankly just wanna volunteer on their down time. we've tapped into Newark public schools with the superintendent has stepped up and provided dozens if not upwards of a hundred of his own staff. so the the necessity. A mother of invention right and so the fact that we were able to pull together such a great collaboration to help solve a problem and help address a need in the city of North in such a short period of time without resources right, so we're all used to working without access to much resources and so that's why we've been tapping into this kind of quote unquote volunteer cohort, but again folks that have been fully vetted that have gone through a pretty intensive training program that we relied on our educational institutional partners to help us develop. And, of course, the expertise of partners in health using that as a platform the module to roll out training to be integrated with the Department of Health and most importantly, so that way folks can immediately and quickly get on the phone, contact people and identify where there's additional support or resources needed right. So this is not contact tracing for contact tracing sake right. It's not for data. This is not for a way for. try to learn what what what we don't know what we're trying to do is make sure that we could be informative and that we can connect people to resources. you have the ability to self isolate. Do you have the ability to isolate for 14 days? do you live with other people that could potentially be affected. are you exhibiting any symptoms? So where we're looking at that to in order to better connect people with those resources that are available. In the city, so that integrated approach is is critical. We're not using an app. We're not tracking you phones or not. There's not gonna be alerts that go off on your phone if you come in close to somebody who's tested positive. In fact, we only get the information kinda scrub. We don't even know the in fact the party is we're getting here's the list of the contacts and for those of you that are old enough to remember when this is happening during the the Aids epidemic the same concept there wanting to make sure that you. Informed that you have come in contact with somebody who is who is exposed, so that's kinda just the the the process in a nutshell you already know this, but I think you've done a phenomenal job even if it's cause Uss many sleepless nights of trying to stand up a program in a ridiculously short period of time that's been unprecedented. joy you can talk a little bit about what they're doing statewide and in Massachusetts the state of New Jersey has just announced they're gonna be rolling out. An effort statewide and quite frankly they're looking to Newark for what we have already done around the curriculum development around the the the technology platform the state is gonna be using the same platform so all that integration and and and and your leadership and just pushing us to get this done. I think allows us to be in the space right now that we we we're shooting for at least a hundred calls a day And getting that information out to the residents that need it the most that's excellent. I want I wanna move quickly on to Doctor Mura talk to us about partners in health. Thank you for being here with us again. so whatever it is that you wanna share with us. You mute. You mute your doctor iming. I mean, hey so thank you so much Aisha for that excellent explanation of what contact tracing is and I wanna really thank the mayor for having us inviting partners and help to work with you guys and newer. We're really honored I am a practitioner of what's called social medicine and what social medicine that is the concept that medicine is not equal, You know and this pandemic we know is not gonna have an equal impact on rich communities and poor. White people and black people this epidemic like all epidemics like most of health will track along the fault lines of historic injustice unfairness and when we launched the contact tracing initiative in Massachusetts, the very first community that asked for our support Help Council was a city of New York and that is because of the great leadership of Mayor Barca. That's because of the great work that ayesha's doing with the New-york Alliance with All of the partners here, Rutgers MCA Emil Foundation and the City Department of Public Health and so I really wanna commend the mayor for this leadership because public health and solving these difficult issues is about leadership and to put the blame on others to deflect is not leadership to take it on and say this is where we are and communicate it clearly. that's that's the whole ball game and and we can work with that. and we're just so delighted to help and I wanna. That partners in health is helping voluntarily, We wanna help the city of Newark. We're not getting paid. There's nothing behind our engagement, other than solidarity with the city of New York, a city that's well led and a city that's been fighting for many years for equity and you are leading your state and we're just Super proud and Super proud to be part of the reopening and recovery strike force that the mayor has set up and really trying to figure out how newer. This thing so partners in health is a 30 - five year old medical Organization. We mostly work in Africa, Latin America, Haiti, where we stand in solidarity with governments with public health departments and with community members, and we've spent the last more than three decades working with people to solve these difficult health challenges and in many countries we work, we see a lot of infectious diseases we've worked on HIV and tuberculosis. On Ebola on Sars on all of this epidemic and what we know is that the way to stop it is contact tracing and linking people to resources. So you know when we look at And every day, the city of New York was on TV for the You know the work and the hospitals and all that's only about 20 percent of epidemic. the other 80 percent that bottom piece of the iceberg that is people who are not very symptomatic and they don't even know that they might be spreading this infection to their families. so right now, we're doing social distancing around the country. Social distance is not enough and it's deeply unfair because it's easier to social distance. You have a salary, it's easier to social distance if you have your own House, but it's harder to social distance when you have an hourly wage when you drive a bus when you don't have a a good place to stay and so the way to have equity and the response to Kobi is to contact trace, which means you call someone and say you are contact and first of all. how are you right? because if you're sick, you need care now yesterday, right away. Second? Okay. Not so, these are the things you need to know to quarantine you need to try to separate yourself out from people in your family. you need to have bleached to wipe down surfaces. you need to not share meals. Can you do that? If you can't do that? then we need to connect you to the resources that will help you do that because the difference between social distancing and contact tracing is resources right, It's really trying to target the people who are most at risk because they can't protect their families. So this is not about spying or as a Ayesha said about knowing. The sake of knowing this is knowing for the sake of equity knowing for the sake of social Justice and knowing for the sake of putting resources in the places that need it most to protect the most vulnerable people and one of the reasons we were so excited to partner with you all in New York cuz you're doing a lot hotels for people who are on housed whether they have it or whether they're negative trying to work with Reds to ramp up testing on your own, There's a lot going on. New-york that is really unprecedented when you compare it to many other places in the country, and that is despite the resources or very little and despite huge levels of inequity compared to the rest of the state. so this fundamental piece of work for us is about knowing where the epidemic is so we can attach resources and commitment to the places where it's spreading the most so we we always protect privacy. In fact, the cases people are positive will only be interviewed by the Department of Health. These are your professionals They work in your neighborhoods right, they're gonna interview you if you're positive if you come forward, get a tested positive and then confidentially walk through who are the contacts Those names go on to an anonymous list right that that won't be attached to your name and then the context will be called and said, you know somebody you know was diagnosed with this is what you have to do partners in health. Has done contact tracing for 30 - five years in countries all over the world. We've never violated anyone's confidentiality. We believe that this is about care and we are we would not participate in something that we thought would be you know violating people's basic civil rights and and you know with that goal we've actually seen that with contact tracing you know, which is again. It's not an app. It's not GPS It's it's just. Hundred percent about stopping the epidemic and taking care of the people who need it the most so while we always talk about flattening the curves, which is the social distance and not roaming around, there's a way to shrink the curve and that is through contact tracing and helping people to effectively quarantine isolate and you know we will be really looking forward to working with you. The contact racers are already doing their work and so many people now are talking in theory about contact tracing New-york is one of the few places that is really. Do it at scale and remember your Department of public health officials are terrific. They were trying to do this, but because of lack of investments in public health and public schools and the public sector for 40 years in the United States that was Department of public health officials have been under-resourced so now is the time to help put our hands together and really try to help Newark to reopen and recover and shrink the curve and really save lives. So thank you again for your invitation and I hope when this is all over I. Down in New York and have a beer absolutely two. that's direct the Scott's next you know he does with the day. It was interesting data points that I think we learned today. I just wanna shout out, Ryan Ando and social Justice and them putting together this kind of information and data for us, You know African Americans in New Jersey represent about 15 percent of the population. Latins represent about 20 percent, but collectively, we're almost half of all the. Cold cases in the entire state and we and we represent more than a third of all of the deaths in the state as well and so it's important when people start clamoring about open it up and and what is the mayor of doing well. The mayor is looking at that data and understanding what you know doctor just told us that you know the the Clovis KT has an unequal kind of relationship to the people of this state and so I response has to. Based on that data, we can't respond by the same way other municipalities respond who do not have the same restrictions and issues that we have in the city of New York and so it's important for us to know that and and and and that's a good Segway to bring on right to Scott. Please good evening everyone and thank you for having me. Join your Facebook live. you know this has been a very challenging task. me being an engineer. I do have some analytical skills but I am not familiar. The way things are done and the way of health and you know infectious disease so one of the things that I've learned from our counterparts at the Department of Health and Community Wellness working with the Newark Public Schools the Department of Public Safety and as well as Essex County gathering this data you know we chart it daily and we look at it and we are really looking for the trends right. What we're trying to do is see how this is changing over time. So initially, when we first started looking at this data that we had very little information very little data and we've seen that the the number of cases in our city has grown dramatically as you have really pushed us to stay at home and to adhere to the social distancing efforts and to wear masks. we have the data to really show that our our numbers are decreasing. you know over the course of just of the month of April. In the first week of April, we had a lot of cases we were actually at our high and based on the number of people that were being tested of approximately 60 percent of them were coming back as positive as we have gotten to the end of the week the end of the month of April, the number of people that were tested positive was down to 20 percent so the efforts that we are taking in in the social Dist and and trying to keep people in the House is working. So we will you know we we hope to continue that and to get that 20 percent positive down to zero percent positive at some point and we're we're constantly looking at the data our data as well as the County and the state to really see what we can do to push our enforcement efforts and also in terms of making recommendations for going forward and reopening the state and the city. Thank you. that's that's great and we're gonna be convening small. Meetings by neighborhood that you'll be learning about so some of the data that is telling us we can share with you. for various reasons we want you to be ambassadors for this information what you wanna hear your voice on what you think about how we should open up you probably you may have some great ideas that we didn't think of and three. we want you to have real-time information so you can make informed decisions for yourself. so I know it's difficult a lot of people. Don't wanna listen to what the government is telling you so we wanna give you the information so you can make a sound Based on real information on how to protect your own family and that's important and I honestly believe if you have the information that the majority of us the overwhelming majority of us will make good decisions based on that data so we we are gonna try our best to to trickle that data down to you to get it to you. So you can. I mean even more Grand than the day that I get to zip code. We wanna give you by block by neighborhood so you can, in fact know what that is how to respond to it and begin to help us help you in your community figure out how to drive. Numbers in the opposite direction is incredibly important. I wanna get to somebody's questions first one is for me is be still Monday's. It's still in effect. We're gonna be running on Monday now to June first. That's the latest we're gonna do it to June first. Hopefully we can end it there. but that's that's where we're at at this point, it says. this is for anybody. we'll contact tracing give out personal medical information to strangers. You want to do the job. Yeah definitely not definitely not no personal and medical information that information that you'll get with contact tracing is toward you've been a contact. This are the things you need to do if you're sick. These are this is where you can go so it's really all on you to give you the information as the mayor just said to to help you make the right decisions. The the the other question that's related to that is are you gonna be tracking people using their cellphones? Definitely not we are not going to do that in New York. Now, there are other places that are proposing that personally, I'm I'm not a fan of that, and I know that I used to and the mayor aren't either. We don't really need to be in people's private business. We need to help people and people helping people that's the way you build community and I love with the mayor, just said about block by block I've been an infectious disease doctor for 25 years. Epidemics are really local and they're locally with people working together, not just with some centralized database. so data is helpful, but as director, Scott said, as the mayor said, this is really to help to help have the information but not individual information on your own business. How I how can I become a contact Trar. Great question. so we are we have almost 400 400 people already signed up, but if you've been if you are interested, you can email Kobi tracing at Newark NJ dot Gov. there's a bit of vetting. There's a training you have to pay attention to the training. There's a testing component. There's an onboarding component. we ask for a minimum number of hours as you can imagine it takes a lot of time and energy. Manage the entire war of a volunteers so the Email is the is the best way. so I'm gonna put these questions together and you know it's what it says if the state of New Jersey is I guess it's for me of the state of Georgia is opening up on Monday when we and when exactly is the city opening back up and we expected to open up all at once or in phases. So I mean you you guys can comment on that. If you like I'm gonna start by saying we definitely not. Opened up all at once. That's like not something that you should do. I don't think it is a scientifically something that should happen as well. we are I absolutely wanna open up in phases when we get to that point, we have a strike force that we put together folks that are gonna help us figure out what that looks like you know we we wanna give you as much information around that as possible. so you know when we open them back up and we we've we've been talking a lot about this color code in the city we wanna. Able to give you information when you make a decision even on your own If you see something yellow, it'll suggest to you that there's mild risk. If you see something you'll see, it's a high-risk a Green. It's a very low risk. We wanna be able to do things like that but open up industries at a time and have a two week period between those times. So if there's Api, we can have room to retreat. We have to retreat is at war so we advance and we treat we advance and retreat so we advance by opening it up. If we feel like we're not winning, we have room to retreat if we just open up all at once, we don't have any room to retreat and we heard. Ourselves in that process and we wanna give recommendations to people on how to open up safely what to do in order to make sure that they're the least likely amount of people will in fact, be sick and and so that that's important for us and and and based on what is dealing with us. There's some things that we're looking for. We wanna see a reversal in in in new numbers every day we need to see it going in the opposite direction. Same period of time you see our hospitals free up over a sustained period of time. That means when you get sick, you should you should be able to go to the hospital. You know a couple of weeks ago, you get sick. They have to send you home and you perish in your living room. We don't we don't need that when you get sick like in any other time, you should have room to go to the hospital. that's important and and third. what's important to us is that you have a safe place to to actually quarantine that you're not in fact positive and you have to go home and likely get everybody in your family. Which is why we set up these hotels, we need to make sure that that is steady and all of that is consistent was dependent upon the number of people that get positive So if those numbers are lower, it's easier for us to maintain and manage that right and so the last question that one is missa. Yeah, that one that time. Yeah, it's back to that question and into the contact tracing effort. contact Tracy is gonna be that much more important once we do reopen so the number of people that you're coming in contact with now is minimum in fact or Of contacts that people are giving that that we're getting for one affected person is really in the four to five range once we reopen and you're back at work Your interfacing in school, You're your doctor's offices are more open once you begin really interacting again. your contacts are gonna grow significantly. and so that's why it's important to pick up the phone answer the phone and be responsive. Not only now, but as we do start to to to reopen because the number of people that positive cases are gonna come in contact with is only gonna expand. Yeah and and and the question on to that was will people still get sick once we open up. You wanna say something about that. Yeah. I mean, yes, there will probably be a continued spread, but as the mayor said, and as I said, the idea is to really find people early to block by block kinda understand where this virus is open up as safely as possible and then we can quickly identify an outbreak and we'll have a plan as to what to do so we will still see cases for some. Of time, we'd love to eradicate an entirely, but I think because it's spread so far in our country. I mean the United States is the epicenter in the world of this terrible disease. We cannot you know, we're not gonna close the borders of Newark and so we're gonna see more cases. but if we know where it is and we know where it's tracking and we can bring the numbers down, then when you have two new cases or five new cases, you can jump on it. Let me just give you a quick example. A country I love a lot and I've worked for 15 years the country of Rwanda they you know and it's not a wealthy country, but they're very serious about protecting one another and they started with their first two cases in mid March and because they put in contact tracing quarantine isolation immediately in the first month, they went from just two cases to a hundred and 34 and had no debts and just to give you an example in the state of. Which is about the same population 12 million, they went from two cases to 4400 and in the country of Belgium, where which is about the same population 12 million. they went from two cases to 7400. So why do we want to do better because they had contact tracing from the beginning? So what we wanna do is get to a reopening where we have a system in place that can rapidly give the mayor the information he needs to make the political decisions that are gonna keep people safe. That's that's that's that's excellent and and and this one says if a person was symptomatic in March, you know the they believe that they're probably are not in fact, have the disease any longer than saying can I donate antibodies and that's a great. That's a fantastic question. and I think that is something that the mayor can take up with researchers at reder and elsewhere. that's right now. Being studied in different places the idea of plasma from people who have not you know, perish and and have mounted immune response. and that's the kind of good science that vaccines are based on. so I really welcome that idea, but that'll be have to be done by researchers right and and University Hospital now is taking folks who are in fact recovered from from Colt. They are they're doing that now at University Hospital in Newark. so you. Should contact them I had the information on the last couple of calls. I revisit that discussion, but they are taking people now who have recovered and believe that they, in fact, have anybody's so we should you know, contact them and be a part of that this this about two more questions, it says. How do we protect ourselves against the second wave? I think is a solid question. There's such a solid question. I think it's the same way you know, putting these systems into place that. Mayor is leading on so that again when it comes back, which we're afraid it will in the fall or winter that we've got systems in place to quickly isolate people when they get sick and that's you know. that's what we do with measles by the way that's what we do with other things tuberculosis so we have those systems in place in the United States. we've just never had to use them at this scale before and that's why we're working together with with your. The officials excellent this this one is saying we talk about data a lot. The mayor talks about that a lot, How does that really help us? How does it help us one for director? Scott? Yeah. Okay. So we we you know we're constantly looking at this data. We you know we work in a team you know what the police Department and the health Department and we we look at the data to see where the cases are use that data to Deploy resources of people to go out and and and do enforcement to make sure that people are you know social distancing wearing mask things like that. we also look at you know the demographics you know we look at age gender race and we look at all of the different trends and we and then it helps us come up with a plan as to how we can help these different. you know different groups whether be geographically or you know just based upon you know their ethnic background. so you know. Constantly looking at it you know we do calls twice a day every day, seven days a week. we're on top of this. we're constantly in communication with our police Department and and also as well as with the with the County. we've received data from them. so you know this is an ongoing effort that we're gonna continue to do and you know we really use this to to really come up with a plan. you know if you're not measuring you're not gonna really know. Kind of impact you're having on the different decisions that you make that's right and all of the partners are together doing this. The police Department looks at data all the time. No public schools looks at data all the time. you know the health Department looks at data all the time, so you have all these folks who's job it is to read analyze aggregate. this data are working together on the same task force to figure out how to do the same thing as it relates to this Colvin 19 numbers, and it helps us make informed. If you don't have data, you're blind, you can't see you just basically in the dark making decisions about things that you know nothing about and so it's important for us to to. in fact, have that last question is how do we know when it's truly safe to remove the shelter in place for the African American and Latino communities right and you know any one of you can jump in I'll finish on that and give the the shout out right after you guys wanna say something about that. I'll take you back off of what Director Scott just said, because I think it's ties into this this question once I I think once the data stops revealing patterns that is gonna be a solid indicator. so there have been instances where once you look more closely, you can see clusters and I think this came up in one of our sister cities where a certain number of folks worked in the same warehouse and they're working their transporting to work together and they're working closely once they're in the distribution. Facility and they're eating lunch together the only way that we can really make decisions about how quickly to reopen and what it looks like once we reopen the guidelines. It's not just we're open and it's back to business right. There's going to be significant changes within employers within businesses. I mentioned by industry what it looks like for manufacturing Center to open looks very different than what it would for a retail business, a service sector some of our arenas and and in our centers and museums right and so using the data to help inform those decisions is gonna be critical and more importantly, it's gonna help us determine what is full reopening Look like it's gonna be a little while this is not you know, it's not flipping the switch and we're fully back open for business. It's gonna be iterative and informed through data excellent. you know I I I just want in on that. you know our communities will like I said earlier, we will know when it's safe for us to move out of the shelter in place based on what the data tells us based on what the information tells us, it'll tell us it speaks very clearly the information speaks loudly. it tells us exactly what we need to know and we're gonna follow that to be our guide and letting you know and we'll give you the information so you can see it yourself so you're you're not getting third. And information on all of it, we'll let you see the data so you can be able to determine yourself whether we're making the right decisions for your family. Whether you're in the right decisions for your own family. so it's it's incredibly important to do that and you know because we're in the same County. A lot of people are looking at what's happening in our County, but you also have to understand that the County is very unequal inequity and Estes County is tremendous right. Today, we're talking about the value of people's homes, the average value of a home in Newark is about $207000 in Milburn is over a million dollars right so just the wealthy it is is is tremendous. The demographic is different right. The unemployment is different. The access to health care is different access to quality food is different that you're suffering from this kind of diseases is different. is it is markedly different so when they're talking about having. Soccer games at tennis matches or all these things and upper Montclair. We can't have those discussions and and some people are saying that we can We that if they are doing it, we should do it. It's that's unequal our relationship to this country is not equal, so we we we have to be that way. What's what we see it that way cuz that's what it's exposing like we didn't create this is already been created. The the virus has painted a huge Red sign all over it. So at the end of the day, somebody said to me like if they could do it in, we can do it. I said no they're not dying at the same rate that we're dying in Newark as they're dying in Milburn. It's just not happening that way, so we can't make a blanket kind of analysis and decision about what's going on and I and I would be careful about trying to follow a prescription that is not designed for you. When you go to the doctor, The doctor gives you a prescription based on your medical. History alone, not everybody else's medical history, you can have the same sickness as somebody else have a different prescription all together because you have a different makeup than those people and it's and you have to understand that that clearly the reason that we're moving in this way is because the prescription that we need for our community is based on the data that we're getting for our community. So I love you all man. I wanna keep you alive and healthy and safe and well and your families too. And if you don't wanna listen to me, listen to the data. Take care of your mom and your grandmother your brother, your sister your neighbor. That's what new-york strong means wanna shout out a cafe a shop Newark Brenda Mdy D. She have a real estate seminar at six PM Brenda in D Live. Go Check her out Haku guru Manni. Thank you Erica Streeter send me something about gloves, she says. Stop wearing the same gloves all day long, you have to change those gloves stop wearing them all day long, you just spreading virus that way. Throw em on the Street that comes from Erica Streeter Adams And she knows what she's talking about. ta Tanisha rell shout out to you and shout it out Brian Hayle Institute for Social Justice again. I'm gonna have a stab at this. I'm not gonna read the whole thing cuz we're already over time. This is lett Quincy Johnson. I had the pleasure of listening to poetry in my home. He is a Jamaican poet from London he calls himself a duck Poe. It's if I was a top notch for like Chris or. Derek Wolcott ATS Elliott, I would write a poem so deep that it bittersweet like a precious memory. We make you weak. We make you feel incomplete like when you love and leave and defeat you can see still your big and you plead to your winter reprieve and you're ready for Rock Steady but the music but the music ain't ready still in the meantime, with me with me rhyme with me, Butt Ruff baseline with me all the time. Going forward and a half step in line cuz Buda might get a couple of thousand but Mandela Tass and towels and the towels and a thousand if I was a top notch poet like Kamal briefly, Martin Carter, Jake Cortez a.m. Baraka I would write a poem so rude and Russie Arts subversive that it make the Lago poet to turn White envy like can humble or Camino chat all time, KP or slaves. That get but from right down Toney, I'm doing my best here. Y'all. I'm doing my best still in the meantime with the rhythm with the rhyme with the baseline with the allens of time gonna Pour half stepping cuz Buda might got a couple thousand but mande fires and a thousand a thousand a thousand. Thank you. God bless you all love you. thank you but please don't kill me for that.