Phil Murphy
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Like many mass transit systems across the nation, NJ Transit is facing a sobering fiscal reality. That is a challenge we must balance with paying our engineers and every NJ Transit worker. what they deserve.
Like many mass transit systems across the nation, NJ Transit is facing a sobering fiscal reality. That is a challenge we must balance with paying our engineers and every NJ Transit worker. what they deserve.
AGAIN, IT'S GOOD TO BE ON WITH YOU. WE BELIEVE COMPLETELY THAT WE
AGAIN, IT'S GOOD TO BE ON WITH YOU. WE BELIEVE COMPLETELY THAT WE
complete or near complete health care recovery so flattening that curve reduces the amount of hospitalizations reduces the amount of intensive care beds ventilators health care workers needed etc and so you want to get the line to cross between that and your capacity if we had let this go we think three plus million new jerseys would have been infected the number thank god is going to be a lot less than that tucker but we're still not out of the woods yet
complete or near complete health care recovery so flattening that curve reduces the amount of hospitalizations reduces the amount of intensive care beds ventilators health care workers needed etc and so you want to get the line to cross between that and your capacity if we had let this go we think three plus million new jerseys would have been infected the number thank god is going to be a lot less than that tucker but we're still not out of the woods yet
MY COMMENTS TODAY WERE DIRECTED AT THINGS LIKE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS, RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS THAT FOLKS HAD ASKED ME ABOUT FOR JUNE. AND I JUST CAN'T SAY WITH CONFIDENCE. I THINK APRIL, THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, IS GOING TO BE OUR TOUGHEST PERIOD. MAY, I HOPE, PLEASE GOD, ASSUMING FOLKS STAY HOME, WILL BE A LITTLE BIT BETTER. I CAN'T PREDICT WITH CERTAINTY INTO THE SUMMER.
MY COMMENTS TODAY WERE DIRECTED AT THINGS LIKE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS, RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS THAT FOLKS HAD ASKED ME ABOUT FOR JUNE. AND I JUST CAN'T SAY WITH CONFIDENCE. I THINK APRIL, THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, IS GOING TO BE OUR TOUGHEST PERIOD. MAY, I HOPE, PLEASE GOD, ASSUMING FOLKS STAY HOME, WILL BE A LITTLE BIT BETTER. I CAN'T PREDICT WITH CERTAINTY INTO THE SUMMER.
SO MY RATIONALE IS THE SAME. I JUST GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M BEING STRAIGHT WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THE TIMING AND, FRANKLY, WHAT WE DON'T KNOW YET.
SO MY RATIONALE IS THE SAME. I JUST GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M BEING STRAIGHT WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THE TIMING AND, FRANKLY, WHAT WE DON'T KNOW YET.
Yeah, I wouldn't say it's a different standard, and maybe it's the way I said it today, but here is the reality. You get that economic recovery, that responsible reopening after you've cracked the back of this. I don't think any of us can expect that we can get this to zero, particularly in the absence of a vaccine, and it sounds like that's a year, year and a half away.
Yeah, I wouldn't say it's a different standard, and maybe it's the way I said it today, but here is the reality. You get that economic recovery, that responsible reopening after you've cracked the back of this. I don't think any of us can expect that we can get this to zero, particularly in the absence of a vaccine, and it sounds like that's a year, year and a half away.
But I do think, and I did say this today, and we believe this strongly, that we need a much broader testing regime. And that will give us confidence if we can quickly test folks. Rutgers University, our state university, by the way, started this week with this alignment test, which they think to be scaled up dramatically.
But I do think, and I did say this today, and we believe this strongly, that we need a much broader testing regime. And that will give us confidence if we can quickly test folks. Rutgers University, our state university, by the way, started this week with this alignment test, which they think to be scaled up dramatically.
THAT'S ABOVE MY PEG, RAY TUCKER. I WASN'T THINKING OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS WHEN WE DID THIS.
THAT'S ABOVE MY PEG, RAY TUCKER. I WASN'T THINKING OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS WHEN WE DID THIS.
I don't want to get into too much detail. but there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to.
I don't want to get into too much detail. but there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to.