The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do everything, you know? For me, the priority has been being deeply involved in my restaurants and figuring out different ways to make them run better.

Michael Mina

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I like complicated dishes but also appreciate simple foods. by Michael Mina

I like complicated dishes but also appreciate simple foods.

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I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

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There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.

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I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100... by Michael Mina

I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11.

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I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.

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Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens.

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I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.

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I had always been told cooking was a servant's job. by Michael Mina

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

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We kind of just floated through this major outbreak, but we should not let our guard down, I would say, because with BA.5, I expect it will be a very different story.

What I've said throughout this pandemic is if we wait and see, then by the time we're seeing, it's always too late to act, and unfortunately we've been slow to get these out to Americans, i don't think it's too little, too late now, but we should absolutely be doing everything we can right now, so that a month from now, we're not still saying,' We're going to be doing this later.'.

The FDA doesn't really seem to be able to budge. The FDA is such The FDA.

If I'm thinking about the public health, I need a test that's very fast. It doesn't need to be as sensitive as a PCR test.

If there are too many people doing that, there are no safe places anymore.

If I was not vaccinated, I would not want to be next to someone who is vaccinated and positive.

Even if everyone else in that place is vaccinated, there may be vulnerable people where immunity has waned or they never took to( the vaccine) well.

We don't have the legal framework or the regulatory framework to think of a test in United States as a public health tool, only as a medical diagnostic tool.

For less than.1 % of what this virus is costing America, every American could have a whole slew of these tests in their homes.

If we actually got these tests into the average American's home and we asked every American to use a test twice a week, it takes 30 seconds to use -- as you brush your teeth, you use a Covid test -- that would be enough to empower people to know their status, and if they are positive, they would be able to essentially know that they're positive and make the appropriate changes.

We have the FDA that is kind of all controlling in some ways of what tests are available, the The FDA, unfortunately, only has a single lens through which to look at a coronavirus test. Their only mandate, when it comes to testing, is to evaluate medical diagnostic tests.

I think this test is the most equitable way to approach fighting this pandemic today. It is a test that can truly be scaled to every household, rich or poor. People can use it on their own terms, regardless of any politics, regardless of how they feel about this virus. You know, and if people don't want to use it, that's their prerogative. But as long as we can get a large number of people using it twice a week, we can actually start to really contain this virus.