According to the United Health Association, Louisiana, ranks 49th in population Wellness, the leading indicators are low birth weights children in poverty, obesity and cardiovascular health that wasn't enough in the past 5 years. drug related deaths alone have risen over 65% Currently, Louisiana has led the nation multiple times in covid-nineteen cases per capita in fact. Several of the hardest hit long-term care facilities have been right here in district three and while they have survived my own mother and father were among some of the first cases right here in Cabo Parish. So we mourn with a thousands of families that are grieving the loss of their loved ones all across the state, this nation and the world and I pledge as your next congressman to not only address the current crisis but to continuously work towards the eradication of our persistent vulnerabilities with both competence and compassion. The ignorance of our realities is not bliss and denial is not the antidote We cannot defeat foe that we are too afraid to face and our current state of health care has proven to be fatal. So here's the plan. First and foremost, we must increase testing nationwide and increased the access to rapid testing for all of those who live in congregation settings and learn within their classrooms, five to 7 days for results is simply unacceptable as we try to save lives to contact tracing. Next we must recognize and reward every health care warrior on the front lines of this battle with both hazards stipends as well as student loan relief, No one that is risking their lives to help us defeat This disease should be drowning in debt from obtaining the skills essential to fighting and it is absolutely unacceptable for there to be a health care worker working anywhere in this industry without having health care insurance for themselves, then we must. Care to all in an effort to ensure the sanctity and quality of life for every single American from gestation to Geriatrics, We must emphasize and incentivize the expansion of both telehealth and outpatient health in order to ensure midwives and skilled nurses can lead the charge in keeping people healthy in their own homes at the lowest cost possible We must also invest in rural and to ensure that both health education and rehabilitative services are laid and know the knees of our citizens best but not least we must reinvent our for nominal cuisine in ways they do not allow them to become our fatal flows so that we can eat during and dance our way back into shape and truly show the world had a lazy ruling and these are just a few ways and we can follow a more perfect