the main contest on the ballots, the state supreme court race between daniel kelly and joke are -- roski -- -- joke waiting outside riverside high school to vote, he said i don't feel i'm risking my life, but it is different. everyone is properly practicing social distancing. that is what we are talking about this morning on the "washington journal," social think -- social distancing. how it is impacting you and your family. phone lines are split of differently this morning. old,u are under 25 years -- 748-8003. tom is host: tom is up first on the line for those 51 to 70. tom, good morning to you. caller: good morning. i would like to make a comment about the social distancing. i live in a motorhome pretty much by myself, with my cats. i have been to prison before. social distancing is not a big thing if you are used to this. when people go out and do not take it seriously, that is on them. you really should listen to your , people, and stuff. i would not listen to the federal government, especially not donald trump. people giving false information, that stuff is dangerous. host: do you

deputy regional director at united nations women and amman we have turn less khatab and frederick roski also in bangkok he is the director for the asia and pacific program at the international commission of jurists welcome to all of you so the secretary general he did not want to name countries but we are naming countries because we have to have this discussion and i want to start in china specifically so the doctor that basically tried to blow the whistle and about how how severe of this this plant this bias at the time not necessarily a pandemic was ended up getting a visit from police and ended up dying later frederick i want to start with you how would you characterize the actions of china during that event during the spread of this virus and the aftermath well look i think as we as we look across the region including china you know we see the governments that are normally inclined to take authoritarian or militarized approaches to things taking them in this case and it's not a great surprise that china tried to suppress information about the virus in the early days nor is it a surp