Andy Beshear
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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You have the health piece and then you have, I don't wanna call it the political piece, but just knowing what's a little too much for folks and trying to hit that sweet spot where people would be willing to sacrifice for each other.
And in many ways, looking back, and I talked about it at the time, this was the ultimate test of the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Are you willing to sacrifice in your own life for things to be a little uncomfortable if it saves someone else's life?
And here it's probably someone that you would never know and you would never meet, but you were called on to do it.
I think one thing that we missed from the federal level, if we could go back in time as a real call to patriotism, and this was coming to take as many American lives
In Kentucky, we lost more people.
If you think about losing more people, at least in Kentucky, to it than we did to the Vietnam, Korean War, World War II put together.
than this was in many ways, the war of our time, coming for as many of our friends and neighbors as it could.
And that's how we cast it here.
And when people look back here, sure, they have questions.
And if we knew everything at the end, at the beginning, remember, we're dealing with a different strain at that point though.
And I think I think a miss at the federal level that we got right early on in Kentucky and then others followed is teachers and educators needed to be in that very first batch for the vaccine.
We needed to recognize that one of the most important things that we needed open and fully open were our schools.
And that should have been that one a category when we look back.
And the idea that there's a relief valve, that when it's safer for people to be able to go out.
Right.
And for us, we never ran out of hospital beds, but that's because we expanded Medicaid years before.
And because of that, we had rural hospitals that were still open.
And so I got to see firsthand what that type of policy that you do during times when you are not in a pandemic or in a crisis can do for you later.
And so, for instance, when when I talk about how bad that big, ugly bill is about how it's going to close 35 rural hospitals across Kentucky and decimate rural economies because it's the largest payroll fire, 20,000 Kentucky health care workers.
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