Talk about just how you saw the city and the economy transformed, at least temporarily. It was a real disaster. We had the highest unemployment in America for a long time. We were sort of battling that out with Hawaii, which obviously is another tourist driven economy. Our governor had extraordinarily draconian policies about COVID shut down all the. (16:08–17:32)
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