I’M YASMIN VOSSOUGHIAN. "MORNING JOE" STARTS RIGHT NOW.
>>> IT’S THE INDIVIDUAL ACTS OF
TENS OF MILLIONS OF CALIFORNIANS
THAT ALLOW ME TO SAY THE
FOLLOWING.
FOLLOWING. THE NUMBERS IN THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA ARE GROWING.
THE NUMBER OF POSITIVES,
CERTAINLY, ARE GROWING AND,
TRAGICALLY, YES, THE NUMBER OF
DEATHS, 203, HAVE GROWN.
BUT THE ICU NUMBERS AND THE
HOSPITALIZATION NUMBERS, WHILE
THEY’RE GROWING, ARE NOT GROWING
AS SIGNIFICANTLY AS YOU’RE
SEEING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. >> DO YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOR THE
OTHER GOVERNORS WHO HAVE NOT
TAKEN THESE STRONG MEASURES,
THESE EXTREME MEASURES?
SHOULD EVERYONE BE ISSUING THESE
STAY AT HOME ORDERS?
>> MESSAGE IS THIS, WHAT ARE YOU
WAITING FOR?
WAITING FOR? WHAT MORE EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED?
IF YOU THINK IT IS NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN TO YOU, YOU’LL NEVER
REGRET OVERCOMPENSATEING AT THE
MOMENT SO YOU’RE PREPARING
PEOPLE FOR MEETING THIS MOMENT
IN THE RESPONSIBLE WAY.
THERE’S NO BETTER INTERVENTION.
PERIOD, FULL STOP, NONE, THAN
PHYSICAL DISTANCING.
PHYSICAL DISTANCING. WE TALK ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING,
BUT IT IS PHYSICAL DISTANCEING.
STAY CONNECTED, BUT YOU HAVE TO
BE PHYSICALLY APART.
FOUNDATIONALLY AND
FOUNDATIONALLY AND FUNDAMENTALLY, WE KNOW, CAN BEND
THE CURVE, SAVE LIVES, AND
ULTIMATELY GET PEOPLE BACK TO
WORK AND GET SOCIETY BACK TO
SOME SEMBLANCE OF NORMALCY
FASTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN
DO.
DO. >> SOME POSITIVE NEWS FROM
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM
YESTERDAY.
YESTERDAY. TWO WEEKS AGO, HE ANNOUNCED THE
FIRST STATEWIDE STAY AT HOME