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Mike Wereschagin

Aug 20, 2026

10:52
It's easier on the counties.
10:54
And it also...
10:54
Once you actually physically go out and visit all of these properties and you kind of update everything with brand-new data and you can show that this house had an addition put on, this place that was falling apart has been completely rehabbed, and it's now worth, you know, half a million dollars as opposed to $35,000, which happens in the city.
11:13
Once you've got all that baseline stuff down and it's updated, you can rely more heavily on the software.
11:20
You can really lean into this, you know, the computer-assisted stuff that will allow you to update these values much more quickly without having to do this massive effort of, of going out to visit all the properties.
11:32
But because we haven't done this since 2012, we need to get out there.
11:36
Like, the, the county is gonna have to get people to these places because so much has changed in all that time.

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25:48
I feel like it's a difficult thing to quantify, but, like, even just people choosing not to live in Allegheny County in the first place, like, if they have other options.
3:45
Because we haven't had to deal with it as a society, not at scale.
3:49
That's exactly right.
3:50
And, you know, doctors or pediatricians will tell you that vaccines are a victim of their own success.
3:55
We just we don't remember this.
3:57
but we're starting to see it come back in places like Texas and South Carolina and Utah, where we have had the largest outbreaks in decades.
4:06
And you're talking about hundreds of people who are ending up hospitalized, school communities going into quarantine.
4:13
We had three deaths last year, really tragic stuff because these, These diseases, this disease in particular, is preventable.

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15:20
And we're not doing anything about it.
4:21
Because we haven't had to deal with it as a society, not, not at scale.
4:25
That's exactly right.
4:26
Uh, and, you know, doctors will... pediatricians will tell you that vaccines are a victim of their own success.
4:31
We just...
4:31
We don't remember this.
4:33
But we're starting to see it come back in places like Texas and South Carolina and Utah, where we've had the largest outbreaks in decades.
4:42
And, you know, you've... you're talking about hundreds of people who are ending up hospitalized, school communities going into quarantine.
7:24
What is the state of things right now in the Commonwealth?

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