If this virus, we're a physical assailant, unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor.

And so it follows that this is the moment of opportunity.

This is the moment when we compress home our advantage.

It is also the moment of maximum risk.

I understand your impatience.

I share your anxiety.

And I know that without our private sector, without the drive and commitment of the wealth creators of this country, there will be no economy to speak off.

And, yes, I can see the long term consequences of locked down as clearly as anyone.

And so, yes, I entirely share your urgency.

It's the government's urgency, and yet we must also recognize the risk of a second spike, the risk of losing control of that virus and letting the reproduction rate go back over one.

Because that would mean not only a new wave.

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George Stephanopoulos here.

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