 have to discuss right now. So I'm going to be I'm going to be brief. If you have some quick questions, I want to be able to address them and but I'm going to keep it tight. So if you got a question, keep it tight. I also won't get answered. City Council just approved an emergency order declaring a stay home, stay safe period of 14 days, starting at 12 or one on Sunday morning. So it be Saturday night Sunday morning here in the city of Columbia. It's a recognition of our mutual responsibility to try and do our very best to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. That's affecting the entire world as we speak. Just here in the United States yesterday, those deaths climbed over 1000. Think about that in context just a few weeks ago. They were only 15 known cases here in this country over the I know the governor's actually have a press conference right now. So I'll get the update and information from the head post haste. But just yesterday, we know there were well over 400 cases identified. In this case, we're still very modest, modest and moderate testing. We expect every public health trend, every epidemiological trend that we've seen. We expect that to double over the next few days and then to double again and then to double again and depend on what experts you rely on. If it's those affiliated with the University of South Carolina that submitted some information indicated that there may be up to 50,000 cases in the state or DHEC's numbers issued yesterday that showed over 8000. It's too many. And to some who might suggest that and we ought not do everything we possibly can to try and still dispel this virus to try and preserve human life. I would say that the people of Columbia and certainly the city council disagrees as we weigh our priorities, our concerns, our hopes, our fears. Every single major concern that we have over here still continues to be dramatically outweighed by the potential loss of human life. That is our concern and wanting to make sure that we are beginning to encourage paradigm shift in the way in which we think that tries to help determine the public health of the millions of South Carolina will work together to flatten the curve. We will be making investments throughout this community as many of you know through our resilient Columbia plan as well. Six and a half, 6.25 million dollars plan designed to keep several of our small businesses flow strong and cash flowing. So when we get those prices together, those businesses will still be strong. We invested heavily in our public safety. First responders and our frontline workers make sure they have the tools that they need. And we are able to come out of this again as a city stronger than ever. We're making some strong moves forward. Also with testing, we believe very strongly that the work being done by DHEC and Prisma and others is important, but that we need to aggressively compliment those that work by investing heavily in testing. Our city will be moving forward with a contractual opportunity to help make testing available not only to our first responders, but eventually also to others here throughout the city who are going through this along with the belief that testing gives you data, that data gives you intelligence, the intelligence allows you to make even smarter policy decisions. We'll continue moving in that way and the interest of the public. We're going to have our police department continue to do the work they're doing in a very common sense of the passion of the way. And this is a stay home, stay safe for them. And I want to encourage people, and all of you who are covering this from the media, encourage people to go to columbiasc.gov. columbiasc.gov. They have questions. We call 803-545-3300. And all the questions will be answered as to which essential businesses and nonprofit services are still open for business, are still working to meet the needs of our families, all the other optional things that we like to do. We're encouraging folks to stay close to home, continue to enjoy this time with their families, our parks will continue to be open. We're asking people to enjoy the parks and enjoy beautiful weather like this, but also to make sure that our social distancing norms are adhered to. This is going to take our collective action. If we're lucky enough and blessed at some point, the governor will consider this in the state wide level. We're happy to pair up with Charleston and we can talk about two other cities just today for considering additional action as well to make sure we keep our citizens safe. I do believe that this is an incredible city. I believe this is incredible state. I still believe this is the greatest nation in the history of the world. We are about to go into one of our darkest periods in the last 100 plus years. We need to be prepared on the front to do everything we can to save lives. I'd be happy to take your questions. How strictly is law enforcement going in for this? A law enforcement officers have been again common sense and compassion. Even when we first initiated the curfew the first night, they had 30 verbal warnings and even over the last several days have only issued three citations. People have been very compliant. People have been doing their part. We need everyone to do more. And at the end of the day, we're going to do everything we can to save lives. But they're going to be common sense. These are men and women who, very frankly, every single day before the coronavirus hit America, put their lives on the line and run towards danger. They've been trained well to handle these situations. We have to make their job easier. And that's what we're going to do. Listen to the government right now. He has yet to issue statewide mandate. So basically, how's that going to be? We're we're we're we're bound by the boundaries of the city of Columbia. We've engaged with our other municipalities in the county and also with the with some of the municipalities in the county and also with the Richland County asking them to join us in this effort. We'll continue those in treaties asking them to do so because I do believe in consistency. That's why our ordinances model very much after Charleston. I believe that it actually may serve as a platform for a model ordinance that other cities will also take up across the state. It's the governor's prerogative. We have led from the front on this issue. We have not paid attention to political desires or even personal desires. We follow the data. Good data allows you to make good decisions. We've never seen anything like this in over 100 years in this country. It requires a thoughtful public health professionals be listened to in that in that in that elected leaders in that policies that help us slow down the curve and the spread of this virus and certainly save lives. That's what the hope of the governor will follow soon. Thank you. It's 14 days. 14 days starting at 12 on Saturday night Sunday morning. Why wait that long? I think giving people an opportunity to adjust accordingly. I think it's it's an it's important that that we be sensitive to everyone's business. So that's what we're trying to do. Are you taking this week by week? This will be this will be well every every public health professional says that we're still climbing the mountain. We've not we've not beat here yet. We expect these numbers to grow. We're going to see a peace testing nationally and also statewide. We're going to get locally that will give us more data than all my decisions as you go along with this, but we're not going to be caught with our guard down. We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna revisit this in two weeks and be able to make some more important decisions with more David. Gotta get back to the council meeting y'all. Thank you very much. All right.