Hi, my name is Time Stewart. I'm a cleaning business today. I'm also with councilkeepers of Charleston, we've been in the house cleaning business for for a number of years, but cleaning business today is going to be doing a series of Facebook lives over the next several days anyway, maybe several weeks it just depends on How how things developed with the with the virus they as it pertains to coronavirus What we want to do is share with you the best information that we have the things that that we get from our research and the things that we're getting from other cleaning business owners and Get it out there to you so it'll be useful and something that we'll be able to to use in your business I've got a PowerPoint deck here. I'm gonna share with you. This is Gonna be getting into a Little bit about what the coronavirus is what we need to know about it as as business owners and To kind of set the stage for the things that we need to be thinking about over the days and weeks ahead The coronavirus is I guess the the common name for for for this illness that that we currently are dealing with COVID-19 is I guess a more clinical term for the illness. It's caused by variation of the SARS virus and it's SARS Cove dash to There's a picture of it there. I'm sure you guys have seen those before it's a Viruses are are really small and this is an RNA wrapped virus and Basically what that means is they're fairly fragile that Just soap and water if it touches the the membrane when that virus often is enough to To permeate the outside of it and basically render the the virus harmless So that's kind of the the pathogen that we're dealing with There's a lot of discussion that we've been hearing about it. We're overreacting to this Yeah, as a society, obviously in some ways we have been you know running out buying truckloads of toilet paper and bottled water at Costco doesn't seem to be a Rational thing to do but but people are afraid You also hear a lot of people making an analogy to This virus really any different than just the flu a lot of people get the flu a lot of people die from the flu and this is true and What I have here is a graphic going back over the last ten years of the number of people who have contracted the flu the number of people that have been hospitalized and the number of people that have been died Have died rather so in any given year, you know, it could be 21 million and this is just the United States by the way So going all the way back to 2010 there was like 21 million 2011 it wasn't as bad about nine million 34 million 30 million 30 24 29 45 those are millions of people here in the United States the United States has a Little over 300 million people in it So, you know from a percentage standpoint it can be you know ten percent or more of the Population they get the flu every year and out of them, you know, it can be 37,000 43,000 just depending on the year Last year 61,000 people died from the flu. So if you do the math that's point point two percent of the population or about two out of every Thousand people died in the from the flu here in the United States last year This is coming from the center disease control Center disease control also has estimated what this flu year is going to look like they don't have great numbers But they're guessing anywhere from 34 to almost 50 million people will get the flu about 23 million 16 to 23 will Go see a doctor I guess bottom line is 20 to 52,000 pretty big range will die from The flu this year. So if you do the math, there's 327,000 excuse me 327 million people in the United States give or take Based on these numbers for this year anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the US population will catch the flu this year and Roughly about one out of a thousand will die from the flu this year. So we're talking about making comparisons with Coronavirus and flu That's kind of what the flu picture looks like We don't have as clear a picture as what the coronavirus will look like goes quite frankly It's just getting started in this country and globally. It's it really hasn't Got in a good foothold yet, but there's this metric that I wanted to share with you It's called the or not value and what this measures is the number of people if one has a Particular pathogen the number of other people on average that they're going to infect with that and It's basically people spread germs.  I've seen other studies that says the flu was closer to one and a half percent So even between studies for diseases that we've known for a long time We really don't you know, you can kind of debate how infectious they are Based on best counts from the data that we've been able to collect from the corona virus We're guessing this is a pretty big range now anywhere from 1.4 to maybe a tad over four so Apples and apples You know, I would look at this and say it's not necessarily More contagious than the flu, but it's not necessarily less contagious in the flu So in terms of the chance of making somebody else sick with corona virus as opposed to the flu Maybe it's about the same. There's a couple of caveats that I want you to think about We have a vaccine for the flu It's not always perfect because the strange change and change from year to year and every once in a while We guess wrong in terms of what that needs to look like But there is a vaccine to prevent or reduce the chance of people, you know, getting the flu Plus we also have a lot of therapeutics medicines that we can give people like tamiflu And there's a number of them that will make them feel better if they get the flu Whereas we got nothing for corona virus. So even when you're looking at this are not value If you don't have a vaccine then you could argue that that makes a Large part of the population at risk The big thing to look at is the mortality rate and We really don't have a handle on this at all because a mortality rate is calculated by the number of people that died divided by the number of people that had the disease and I think that we are doing a pretty good job Globally of counting the people who are dying maybe not a hundred percent But I think that number is more accurate than the number of people that have the disease Testing isn't great testing isn't great in this country. We're struggling to do testing So if you know the people that died, but you don't know how many people had it It's kind of hard to get a mortality rate But some of the numbers if you do this got 4,000 deaths out 114 cases that's like 4% And again, I'm gonna go back to what we said with the flu, which is like one out of a thousand That's like four out of a hundred or 40 out of a thousand So that would be like 40 times as as as deadly no corona virus 40 times as deadly as As the flu do not think that's the case But to say that maybe the death rate is one out of a hundred once we get all of our data there's a lot of people on the medical for the medical community and who study the spread of Disease think that might be more plausible, which means it might be ten times as deadly as the flu so if you would buy into the the possibility since The flu and and corona virus are both viruses and If you know up to 50 million people in the US can get the flu Maybe that many people in the US could get corona virus But maybe ten times as many people or you know anywhere from 200 to a half a million may die from it and Who knows we don't know anything at this point But I guess I'm giving some perspective So if anybody challenges is this you know worth being concerned about is this worth planning for Is this worth getting prepared for I would say yes absolutely But we need to be rational about it. There's no point going out and buying a bunch of toilet paper and you know Oops You know don't don't hoard stuff Don't don't you know do stuff in a responsible way But at the same time let's let's go ahead and prepare Here's a chart that shows By age group people and this is data from China China has the most cases of this by far although that's starting to Change but we had up to 50. I guess that the population that had the most Instances of the infection is a group age group 50 to 59 and then it kind of tailed off after that It was like really young people aren't real susceptible to it Even better young people have a very low mortality rate unlike some other viruses that we've had in the past where young people seem to Be more at risk. This is more weighted towards an older population But you know I've seen some studies that say if you're 80 years or older and get this virus You maybe have like one out of five chance of Dying to or from it. So it's really important to protect You know the elderly to protect other people that are at risk Immune, you know having their immune system Suppressed you know cancer patients things like that people with respiratory issues COPD those populations are much more at risk So let's talk about this You know talking about risk. Let's talk about our businesses for a minute What what are the risks that we're dealing with from a from a business standpoint? Well from a business standpoint certainly we're at risk of losing clients. We might have clients who come to the conclusion that having people in their home is Creating chance of people bringing The the coronavirus into their home It's very real concern, especially if The company isn't taking you know reasonable precautions Another risk that that we're going to be dealing with is the possibility of supply chain problems and if any of you have tried to Precious hand sanitizer to make sure that your your staff is being protected You might find that's very difficult to do right now as we go forward It's not unreasonable to think that there's going to be a lot of supply chain disruption your ability to buy the stuff That you need for your business and it's a Confluence of a lot of things on the on the personal protection and equipment a lot of it's made in China and you know, they've been shut down and for the stuff that they are making they need themselves a lot of it was also made in Puerto Rico and They got wiped out by hurricane last year and haven't really been able to to get that going again So there's a lot of things working against us from from a supply chain issue right now And if a lot of people get sick in this country, then that would just compound the problem So now that could result in a loss of income for our companies as well as our Employees and we need to be thinking about that and planning for that We're going to be talking about that more in subsequent discussions But you know, we need to make sure that we're doing things that we need to do to maximize the chance that our company is going to survive But also be mindful that a lot of our employees are going to have a hard time You know taking care of their obligations if they wind up losing income as well So these are things that we need to consider and and come up with with our best ideas to manage um There's a possibility of bad PR through all of this if we don't manage the Cleaning professionals is cleaning business owners if we wind up sending somebody into a home that Has the virus or maybe into a home that somebody living in a home has the virus and then they That same technician goes out and cleans a bunch of other homes and winds up Making other people sick. I mean this could kind of spiral in a really bad way of local press Gets a hold of it and starts talking about it. So we need to be thinking a little bit about, you know, if there is negative Publicity negative PR, how would we manage that and kind of get a plan together? And we'll be talking about that in subsequent discussions as well. There's a possibility a real possibility of some legal liability and In several fronts and you know, I've got some information from some insurance companies There's that I'm going to be sharing There's some law firms out there that are specializing in writing contracts to support cleaning companies in terms of entering into certain arrangements to help manage The indoor environment infection control and doing it in a way that reduces their liability So we're going to be talking about all of that and in subsequent discussions Sounds pretty bleak, doesn't it? You talk about you know potential mortality rate number people can get it It's a pandemic people all over the world, you know or Catching this disease that looks like it's going to get worse before it gets better all those risks that we just talked about but There's a potential upside as well. If you could call it that Or opportunities let's just leave it like that You know if we do this right we have an opportunity to put cleaning procedures in place That are actually effective in reducing the chance of somebody catching You know a pathogen getting infected with with coronavirus or any other pathogen for that matter And we're going to be talking about Techniques to do that. We're also Later discussions going to be talking about how you can use this to position your business in the marketplace In recent years in my opinion, I've seen the industry go in a direction of commoditization where you just throw up a website throw some low prices on it and Just really focus on the marketing components of it without really focusing on the other parts of the business and In doing that, I mean the times are good. That's great. But when people are really concerned about cleaning for health and all of the You know aspects of and complexities that that that that creates and Which we need to do as a cleaning business in order to adequately address that and exploit that as an opportunity We have we can you know, you got to run your business in a more disciplined way in a more Professional way and this is an opportunity for companies who want to go down that path to You know, not only take advantage of the opportunity presented by this very unfortunate situation, but also You know make a greater contribution to The community Your you know employees and arguably society as a whole so We're gonna be be talking a lot about that There's a very real potential at the labor market might get a little more favorable. We've all been struggling to find help and It's you know, you can look at a lot of industries from you know hospitality to food and bath It's a lot of a lot of service businesses It's reasonable to think in the weeks and months ahead. They're going to be Reducing their workforce which would create opportunities for us some opportunity for for good PR. We talked about bad PR things go wrong. Well There's a lot of people in the local local press news People who are going to be Writing articles are going to be looking for for authoritative voices and export experts on corona virus and if you can Basically put together press releases and Bundle up your story in a way and get it out there to where people in the media know where you are It's a really good chance that that you can get a lot of interviews and all the good PR that goes along with that And all of this, you know adds up to the the the possibility if you do it, right? To be able to increase your income and get better margins better gross profit off the income that you're Generating We need to be thinking about a communication plan and I'm going to mention this to you because if you don't working on it We all need to be working on it now Maybe addressing questions that your stakeholders are going to be asking and your stakeholders primarily or your employees and your clients General community is also a stakeholder But we need to be able to explain what we're doing to keep our employees safe Your employees certainly want to know that but the community wants to know that too For a lot of reasons, you know, you need to be able to demonstrate that you're a responsible company that you're you're concerned about the community every person it gets sick is creating the statistically the The probability that anywhere from one to four more people are going to get sick Based on that are not value that we were looking at so we have an obligation to do What we can do to make sure that everybody stays sick for the benefit of Everybody that's not sorry The clients are definitely going to want to know what you're doing to keep them safe And we're going to be talking about ways that you can do that What are we doing to make their home safe for reducing the chance that they're going to catch? an infectious disease inside of their home basically you're talking about hygienic cleaning with you know sanitizing disinfecting using all the proper infection control techniques and In subsequent discussions, we're going to be getting more into that We want to know what should your employees do if they display symptoms need to make sure that's clearly understood I would suggest it would be a really bad thing if you have somebody who has a clinical case of Coronavirus and you're sending them into people's homes and they're cleaning That could create a lot of problems Likewise, if your client has symptoms that they might have this illness, what are you going to do? I would suggest that you want to talk to your clients and have an understanding with them if anybody in their household Believes they might have this virus that you would reschedule those jobs until everybody's feeling better We've got some examples of Some communications tools and some some documents that are useful and so on cleaning business today If you go to cleaning business today calm forward slash Corona virus virus dot downloads You can download we've got and this is some example stuff that we use we've developed the castle keepers It's just a general ladder explaining where we are as a company on These questions here. There's also a Q&A example You're free to use that to whatever extent it's applicable to your business if I would ask you just as a matter of professionalism if There's things in that letter that your business doesn't do that you don't claim that you do I mean make make sure you're being real with people Likewise, if there's things that you're doing that aren't any information that we're sharing with that link I would encourage you to add that. There's also a poster in there from The World Health Organization Actually, I guess it was developed by John Hopkins Quite frankly, I'm not sure you know copyrighted or not but I put it out there for you to download for your internal use anyway on the appropriate way to wash your hands to You know Maximize the the benefit of getting all the nasty stuff off your your your hands are reducing the chance of infection So I hope this information has been useful and if you want to You know know more about this and get more detail about the information that we talked about today and the various Things that you need to be doing inside of your business. There's a whole lot here and a whole lot more discussion to come We'll be back here tomorrow at five o'clock Eastern. It's Tuesday five o'clock Eastern. Please Join us and we'll we'll go then Thanks


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Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and I am back with a Firewall Ultra video. This one's very exciting. This one is one I've been wanting to make for quite some time now, but we've had to waste for a few more weeks than maybe we would have liked. However, despite the fears, despite the concerns about the quietness around first contact entertainment, they have since broken the silence since last night and they've delivered us news about updates 1.12 and they've given us some details about it, which I will go over right now. Attention Firewall Contractors, we know everyone has been waiting on new updates for a while now and we're happy to announce a very large patch is coming soon. A loss has been going on behind the scenes for the last few weeks as we've continued working diligently on improving Firewall Ultra and we are excited to unveil what's coming next to patch 1.12. We'll have more specifics available when the patch goes live, but for now we can say there will be two brand new maps free for everyone in all modes. Adjustments to Diaz's lightweight perk and other perks, as well as targeted updates and improvements to the assignment system, including decreasing steps required to complete assignments, increasing payouts for assignments and decreasing the thresholds for unlocking Tier 2 and Tier 3 assignments at each Black Road dealer. There will be other gameplay and bug fixes as well, so this is one of our biggest patches yet. Thank you to everyone that has stuck it out with us as we continue working on the game and taking your feedback. Following these updates we'll be sharing details about our first seasonal operation coming soon as well, so there's a lot going on here. This explains why it took so long as well, I believe because they're adding new maps, so it's not just bugs and fixes, so I think maybe Sony have to test out the new maps, like the Sony QA team or whatever, so maybe that would explain why they said a few weeks ago that this patch was ready to go basically and they're waiting for the go ahead and guessing the Sony QA team or whatever needed to thoroughly test these maps, make sure that everything was A okay. Hence the long waiting time and the fact that they're talking about now must mean that we're very close to the end of this wave. So there's a few key things, obviously what's going to jump out to a lot of people is the fact that there's two brand new maps, that means they're not returning from Firewall Zero Hour, these are going to be two original maps for Firewall Ultra that we've never seen before. Personally, I'm hoping for a snow map, I've been saying that for years in Firewall Zero Hour as well, I just want a snow map I think with the power of the PS4 or 2 and the PS5, they could really do justice to some kind of a snow weather setting or even just snow on the ground or whatever I'd like that to. It is really interesting as well that Diaz's lightweight perk is going to be adjusted as presumably that means he's going to be nerfed to some degree now, whether he's going to be slowed down or whether his stamina is going to take the nerf remains to be seen, we don't know the details and also other perks are going to be adjusted. So keep in mind they're not saying nerfs, they're not saying buffs either of course, but if you're thinking about other perks in the game that might need some adjustment you'll probably think about maybe Raha again, obviously Raha's perk was heavily nerfed because it was super overpowered as it launched, but could they perhaps be doing something with Raha again to make her perk more useful? We'll have to wait and see. And then of course another very welcome change in my opinion, the two biggest things that Firewall Ultra has needed since last update has been adjust the grenade system and reduce the grind. So the same thing about grenades, but this whole assignment thing seems to be heavily, what's the word, I don't want to say nerf or buff, that's probably not the correct terms to be using here, but it sounds like they've severely reduced the grind there to make tears and the whole assignment system less of a pain to get through because listen, I've nearly got 100 hours in the game. I think I'm only on tier two and like one or two of the dealers right now. So it's just, it's been way too way too grinding and I'm hoping it is a significant decrease and not just a small kind of a thing. And then of course they say there will be other gameplay and bug fixes as well. So that could be a toggle grip that could be I mean technically your grenade adjustments could be in that as well. Although I think they probably would have mentioned as if it was because that's such a desired request. So they don't have a date on when this is going to drop. It kind of seems like it's going to drop any time now. And then once it does drop, it sounds like they'll give us some more detailed patch notes, which we can go over and obviously when the patch comes out, I'll be testing this as well on a stream to see what it looks like. And man, I can't wait for the maps. I really I'm really interested to see what these maps look like. Obviously the only original map we got in firewall ultra was the crossroads map. And that is actually probably my favorite map in ultra, even though it does have them has that crash bug on ultra. I don't know what it is about that map where it seems to crash more than any other map. But I'm still looking forward to seeing what they're able to pull off for ground up PS5 maps, if you know what I mean. Anyway, that is it for this firewall news updates. There will be more when more information drops. So stay tuned if you're interested in keeping up to date with firewall ultra. Before I end the video, though, I have to thank my channel members and they are the following. 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So a very important question that a lot of people ask is is traditional Chinese medicine scientific? Is it a pseudo science? Is it some made-up garbage that's closer to mysticism and religion than an actual medical science? Now this is a really important question. Would you want to be going to see someone for a medical issue you need help with and you're not really sure if it's proven or if it works. I know for me having gone through lifelong health issues, I wouldn't. Especially when you're paying money and you're using this time. So in this video let's discuss more. Hey I'm Dr. Alex Hein, Chinese medicine doctor, author of the health book Master the Day and herbal medicine specialist. So I've included two very important links for you beneath this video. The first link is if you want to become a patient of mine either locally or via telemedicine virtually. The first link down there will give you info on my clinic and the second link is for a free download for daily rituals that can potentially help you add 10 years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. You can check those both out the link below this video. So let's talk about this idea of traditional Chinese medicine being scientific or not. Science is based on a replicable, repeatable series of actions that leads to a consistent outcome. So in some ways that's very very clear. You know in the case of gravity for example if you jump up every single time you're going to come down. It's easy to understand the scientific method in those examples but science also applies to things like weather or human physiology which are far more complex. So you have weather for example we have some of the ways to study patterns of hurricanes and tsunamis and typhoons but there are so many cultural jokes about how accurate whether men and whether women are the meteorologists that whether by itself we can kind of predict in a general sense but in many cases we can't. And the same is true in human physiology. Well there are of course plenty of laws. There are obvious laws of nature of science occurring in our body but medicine is also infinitely complex which is why there are certain things we have very very clear clinical outcomes for. We can say this medication will have this result 92.5 percent of the time but a lot of the times we cannot say that even with billions of dollars of research and the world's most brilliant people. So some things are easily explained in a linear concrete method while others are not even though they loosely follow the same principles. Now Chinese medicine is based on a really really clear clinical method. Now I'm going to go into this first and we'll discuss some of the objections in a sec but what I mean is for thousands of years ancient physicians have documented what certain symptoms are of certain illnesses. They've documented what herbal formulas work to treat the specific cluster of symptoms. They've documented the exact dosage, the exact duration, common side effects, how to treat those side effects or prevent those side effects from happening and we know from hundreds of millions of patients and now there are thousands of clinical trials in China on Chinese herbs and acupuncture and things like that. There are more and more of great quality but beyond the clinical experience of tens of thousands of physicians through millions, hundreds of millions of patients and thousands of years Chinese medicine has a clear framework to describe this symptom, this cluster of symptoms, this pattern, use these formulas or this acupuncture approach. So if that is not a scientific method that consistently gets a repeatable result then I'm not quite sure what the scientific method would be because to do that for something to be scientific it has to have a clear pattern that produces a clear outcome and for a huge bulk of Chinese medicine that exists undeniably. So honestly I don't fully understand how you could practice medicine without a scientific method right. If you did not know that certain symptoms needed to be treated with a certain clinical method or a certain methodology or a certain modality how could you predictably treat illness right. So I understand if you have this presupposition that Chinese medicine is pseudoscience then you would assume it would not have a clear clinical method but it does and has for thousands of years. So my understanding of why so many people think Chinese medicine is pseudoscience is because I think that what the layperson assumes is Chinese medicine is the more esoteric side right. What are the channels of Chinese medicine? What is Qi? Why are all these practitioners talking about energy? What energy? Why can't we measure or see the energy? And then you have individual practitioner bias. You have primarily in the United States alternative medicine practitioners themselves tend to be very alternative so they may be layering on their own personal beliefs of past life karma of crystals of reincarnation of what they think energy healing is and I think that lends to another layer of complexity that's not inherent to Chinese medicine. But that seems very mystical and non-material and it seems pseudoscientific because those things are I don't know that there's evidence of past lives. I don't know how we would prove that that would be pretty cool and compelling if we could but you have the individual practitioners beliefs and then you have often what you're taught in school and then what you're taught through a traditional mentor. You know so to me when I say these three signs in my abdominal diagnosis of a patient and these three clinical symptoms they're reporting to me often indicate this formula and when I give that formula 80, 90, 95 percent of people report improvement and then a certain percentage depending on the treatment course say there's a resolution of the condition. I don't know anything that's personally more scientific following a repeatable path and process that leads to a certain clinical outcome that you can predict and the best physicians the best doctors can do that in Chinese medicine. You know this is me sharing my own experience from the inside where I view it as a very very scientific method and I understand that my view is definitely not the view of other practitioners as well as it's not the view of the masses. So I figured I'd share my perspective on why I'm so in love with this and I've seen the power of it clinically so many times. Now I hope that helps again if you'd like to become a patient of mine the first link below this video is the link to my clinic where you can either come see me in person or book an online telemedicine console as well as the other link below is for a free download for you for daily rituals that can help you add 10 years to life with traditional Chinese medicine. So go ahead check those out right below this video but before you go I've got two related videos on this topic right here.