Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Friday, April 3, 2020

4:20 pm: Andy Larsen of the Salt Lake Tribune joins Rod to discuss his piece that outlines why the Covid 19 virus hasn’t hit Utah as hard as other states

4:35 pm: Matthew Burbank of the Political Science Department at the University of Utah joins the show to discuss the possible political reasons behind Governor Gary Herbert’s reluctance to issue a statewide stay-at-home order

5:05 pm: Several Utah technology companies are partnering to roll out a new website that will help people, either showing symptoms or not, get tested for the coronavirus.David Elkington of InsideSales.com and Mark Newman of NOMI Health join the show to outline the “Crush the Curve” campaign

6:05 pm: Edward Ring, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Greatness, joins the show for a conversation about why he says the ban on plastic bags and the push to recycle and reuse is a scam

6:20 pm: Jim Carlton of the Wall Street Journal joins the show to discuss his piece about the “comeback” of Lake Mead following years of low water levels and why efforts to slash water use are receiving credit

6:35 pm: We’ll listen back to Rod’s conversations this week with local therapist/mental health consultant Jenny Howe on overcoming the fear of uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, and (at 6:50 pm) with Bruce Klingner, Sr. Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on the lessons the United States can learn from South Korea in how it dealt with the coronavirus outbreak