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Speaker 1: good story. Jim Desmond is a supervisor for the San

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Speaker 1: Jonak and Joe great, Thanks for having me. Oh it's

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Speaker 1: our pleasure. So listen. As a guy in pretty good

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Speaker 1: went down, the trends went down, you know, the curve

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Speaker 1: But what he did was, you know, we we you know,

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Speaker 1: We've had a hundred and seventy five COVID related deaths

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Speaker 1: that's insane. That is one side of the argument, utterly

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Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people saying the same thing.

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Speaker 1: The one side has has had percent of the discussion. Well,

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Speaker 1: locked down rather than opening up. Yeah, way too way

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of y'all are scared, but those

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