It's Andy Time. He's back at the emergency operations center. The blue curtains are new though, right?
They're taking Saturday off from the press conferences. It would normally be Derby day, this Saturday, I will pour a mint julep down the drain in its honor.
I may also put on some seer sucker on Saturday and then take a shower because that's been my experience at Derby the past three years at Churchill Downs.
The livestream appears not to be working correctly, but I think I remember this part of the press conference by heart anyway.
That may just be the KET feed.
We're back and there's a program where N95 masks will be able to be reused because of a company that figured out how to use vaporized hydrogen peroxide to make N95 masks last longer.
Stack talking about pools. "It's just not pragmatically possible. Public pools are not what we're going to see, certainly not in the early part of the summer."
Beshear says any communal pool, like one in an apartment complex, should be shut down right now.
Oh wait. They're taking Saturday off... that group of protesters had planned to protest this Saturday.
Beshear, when talking about why daycares can't open, says if people go back to work and kids go back to daycare, it increases the number of contacts people have significantly.
Beshear's talking about the projected state budget shortfall. Beshear says it's a real threat. He says without federal relief the recession will last longer. "What we're facing right now is a worldwide health pandemic that comes with another great recession."
Beshear says he spoke with Sen. McConnell today. "I appreciate him hearing me out, now I hope that he acts," Beshear said.