Tony's Diary Package — page 502

- 13,300,000/266, 100 Fauci makeing rounds with Clinica PRESS: NBC Meet the Press with Chuck Todd; ABC This Week with Martha Raddatz November 30, 2020 - Global - 62,400,000/1,500,000; USA - 13,300,000/266,100 We will see in the next few weeks whether the travel associated with Thanksgiving leads to a surge upon a surge. 95,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 - new record for this outbreak. Biden putting together his team. Very diversified with women and people of color. Trump still flailing about challenging without any hint of evidence that various states were won by him. He still has his Greek Chorus of people backing him although little by little they are being less vocal and explicit about backing him. The GOP is in a crisis in that many have lost credibility by not explicitly condemning Trump. They are all afraid since he does have almost 1⁄2 the country with him. He will definitely run in 2024 and they are afraid that they will lose his support if they come out against him. Terrible situation for democracy. Got call from Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) praising me for what I have been doing and asking for my backing for him to keep stringent public health measures (short of lock down). He is getting pushback from bars and restaurants and even from hard core people who do not want to wear masks. He said that I am so credible and respected that he would like to quote what I have said as backup for himself. He liked my statement on Sunday shows of "Close the bars; open the schools". He is very frustrated with people not wearing masks and told me he would like to just say: "Wear a fucking mask!"