 You've been a busy man. What, so far, what are you learning? What has town done to pretty much minimize this outbreak, which is just incredible? So taking advice from our local public health officials and then in coordination with the state, as I'm sure many people know, schools have been closed for two weeks. Now by the governor's order, three weeks. We've closed playgrounds to a limit social gathering. And we, the governor also has closed restaurants for on-premise dining, so it's only take out delivery and restaurants. So we've tried to take as many restrictive measures now in cooperation with the state as possible to limit people's interactions, limit people's gatherings so that we can flatten the curve of those who get infected by the coronavirus. Right now it's, we're the beginning stages of this. What are you hearing from government officials, town government officials, maybe state officials, also school officials, and have you been hearing from the VISTAs community as well? So I would say the most, I'm hearing most from people saying, please put as many restrictive measures in place as possible. That is the most common email I'm receiving. I'm also hearing people, or seeing people writing to me asking about town meeting, asking about the election, asking about public meetings, and we're trying to work through those things right now. The governor has given us an ability to hold public meetings remotely so that no one has to attend. We can do it all either via conference call or via some type of online communications platform, and we're awaiting further relief in terms of what town, relief for town meeting might be possible as well as relief for the elections. But generally I think we've have a compliant population that is, that understands these restrictions are in place for a very serious reason. Are you hearing anything from the VISTAs community? Obviously restaurants take out only some people that buy some gift certificates, but they're going to take a hit. Is it still too early to tell how much are going to be affected, and what have you heard so far? Again, we're at the beginning stages of this. So I myself have not heard directly from members of the business community, but we have appointed Ali Carter, the Economic Development Coordinator as our main business liaison. So she starting today has been reaching out to businesses, letting them know about the restrictions that are in place, and starting to process on what type of stabilization programs we might be able to put in place to protect them as best possible. I'm sure as the next few weeks go on I will start to hear from the business community, as I'm sure state officials will as well, but we are thinking of them and we are trying to plan for what the best way as town government, what the best way town government can do to help them. With Charlie Baker's announcement over the weekend, you're prolonging the closing of town hall and taking these other measures with businesses and whatnot. As far as town meeting is concerned and as far as election day is concerned, what's your strategy as of now and of course that can change from day to day? So I think we have to continue to act with the best information we have. The election is about two and a half weeks out now. I think we need a little more information before we can make a definitive call on what to do with the election. However, we can't really do anything without legislative relief because perhaps in a court order the election cannot be cancelled or postponed. That said, given that a lot of our election workers are elderly and therefore in the vulnerable population, I don't think it would be responsible for us to call a lot of them out of their homes and interact with a large number of people on election day. So we're still in an information gathering phase and still waiting to see if legislative relief can be granted, but we hope to know more by tomorrow or Wednesday to share publicly to see exactly what the plan will be. For town meeting sitting here today, I think given everything we know, it's quite likely that town meeting would be postponed and the governor has filed legislation to make it very clear that the moderator would have the ability to postpone it based on a public health emergency which we are currently in. That's not been decided yet, but sitting here today, given what we know again, I can't see us being able to launch town meeting on schedule. We've been through a lot of crises. I've never seen anything like this. What are you hearing from residents? I mean, they're very concerned. I was talking to Captain Richard Flynn at the APD earlier today and there was a concerned woman there. Just, hey, what do I do? How do I contact police if I need help? She was elderly. So what are you hearing from residents? People are concerned. I mean, people, I think they're reading the charts that the globe is making available in the New York Times and so on and so forth and I think people are understanding that they have to take this seriously and they have to protect themselves and even if they're not in the vulnerable populations, their loved ones are. They don't want to bring this virus home to their child who might be asthmatic or to their parent who is in the vulnerable population from an age perspective. People are taking it seriously. At least from what I'm seeing, people are taking it seriously and I think that's our only hope of flattening the curb so that the hospitals don't become inundated and we can get through this together as a society. Last week you were understandably behind closed doors day after day after day and things were changing every 15 minutes. Who are you in touch with? It's not like I'm sure you're not getting, well, you're in touch with health officials but as far as getting pockets of information and looking for that leadership or that help that may be needed down the road, you're pretty much in touch with the state along with health officials? Yeah, so I would say I have an internal lens in an external lens right now. Internally, the response is being led by the Department of Health and Human Services. So under Christine Bargero's direction, she's the director of Health and Human Services. Also working with her is Natasha Wade, who is the director of Public Health. They are the two leading brains behind all of this right now. The two of them and their staff are tracking the positive cases in Arlington, tracking contacts of those cases, quarantining those people to do everything they can to continue to try to contain the spread of the virus in Arlington. So internally, they are the two main people I'm working with. On the team is also Chief Kevin Kelly, Chief Julie Flaherty, Superintendent Kathy Bode, Sandy Poole, the deputy town manager and Human Resources director, Karen Maloy. Sandy and Karen have been great in looking at the operation of all the town departments and coming up with plans with each department for how we're going to operate over the course of the next two, three, four weeks. So that has been primarily my internal lens. Although I would add the other key part of the internal lens is our communication strategy. Joan Roman, our public information officer, has been great in putting together the communication that we're putting out. And our goal is to put out a piece of communication every day, 5 p.m., same time, same format so that we can get into a rhythm of updating the community on what's happening. On the external lens, the Christine and Natasha, I've been working with the Department of Public Health and the CDC. I have been working with a group of mayors and managers in the region. Working with Joe Crattotoni and our neighboring Surerville, as well as a group of suburban managers to our north and west. And we're in constant communication on a text chain. We're sharing emails. We're sharing best practices comparing what each community is doing. And yesterday, at 5 p.m. on Sunday, we were on a conference call with over 130 communities to try to coalesce around how to best urge the governor to take more comprehensive state action in terms of school closures and even restaurant closures. And while we were on the call, he made that announcement. So I think we've been part of this movement to grow the number of communities that are taking it seriously and accommodated with the state making announcements thereby taking it very seriously. We're in the beginning stages of this. It could get worse before it gets better. There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. What would you like to tell the residents of Arlington? We heard your phone call last week, which was pretty much the beginning of the self-quarantining, the distancing of ourselves six feet away, washing our hands, just common sense things. What would you like to tell the people of Arlington? I think I would tell people in Arlington that they can stay calm. Do the best they can to go on with their daily lives while heeding the guidance and advice that the town has issued. Read the CDC advice about hand washing and social distancing. Read the advice that we've put out in that regard. But otherwise to stay calm, try to protect your neighbors as best possible. Protect yourself and your family as best possible. But take this seriously. This is very real. If we look to Europe, what's happened in Europe, if we look to China, we're putting measures in place that will hopefully protect us from getting there. But time will only tell if they've been effective. So I would urge people to stay calm while taking this as seriously as possible. And lastly, is there anything you'd like to add? We'll probably be talking to you next week if you have time. Maybe later in the week, is there anything you'd like to add? I guess I would add that we are committed. We have people at the Health and Human Services working around the clock paying attention to this. We're going to stay on top of this from now until we're out of the dark here. So if people need information, what information they can reach us by email, they can call the Board of Health at 781-316-3170. And we're here to try to get every resident of Arlington through this as best possible. Alright Adam, thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you. You're welcome.