sorry the trust for america's health is this a -- >> we are a non-profit/nonpartisan public health advo kay cold airsy and research organization. one is emergency preparedness and we produce a national report. >> let me ask you there's a debate about the contagious nature of coronavirus. would you say it has a high level of contagiousness, if you will? >> we are seeing that it is. it's a coronavirus that has -- easy transmissibility and so the way in which we're talking about taking preventative measures and precautions is similar to what we would do for other -- >> does it have a high level of contagion factors? >> we're learning about the disease. i think one, we recognize enough, there is person to person transmission, we're seeing community spread in certain parts of the country and so because of that, are taking these types of precautions. >> i think to a higher degree than others. people are comparing it to the flu and i don't pretend to be a professional but i would venture to say that the flu does not equate in its contagious factors to the coronavirus. i'm going to -- i was alm

i am feeling fired up because i think restaurant owners don't always, you know, have the advo cassie they need. they may need us right now. >> that is exciting and that is great because those ideas are what we can add to the set of recommendations. unless there is any more questions i am done with this section. move on to public comment. >> thank you, director. do we have public comment on the item we just discussed? seeing none comments closed. next item. >> small business presentation. small business commission retreat and strategic planning. >> back on item two did we get a chance as commissioners to speak. >> we can't talk in public comment. they can comment to us. under the rules we can't ask questions under public comment. >> i got schooled on that once. >> so did i. that is why i know it. >> so we are moved to the next item. i want to take an opportunity since we had a fairly light agenda. we need to schedule our retreat, annual retreat. i really would like to do a full day retreat. we haven't had a full day retreat for the last two to three years. it is needed with new commis