into the summer. that s what my concern is. what are the current risks for unvaccinated people? well, you know, john, you can t give a numerical value to that because unvaccinated people has to be linked with where you are. if you are in an area where there s a considerable amount of viral dynamics, a lot of circulating virus in a community and you are unvaccinated and don t wear a mask, your risk clearly is higher than if you re in a situation where most of the people are vaccinated and the level of virus is very low. so you can t give a uni dimensional number of what a risk is. it s all relative to where you are and what the level of virus in the community is. let s talk about cruise ships because there s a fight right now in florida where cruise ship operators are trying to require vaccinations for passengers. governor ron desantis is fighting that requirement. how risky would it be to be on a boat filled with unvaccinated
good news in the labor market as the economy roars back to life. chief business correspondent christine romans with the latest jobless claims numbers. this trend is so clear here. this is the lowest number of new jobless benefit filings of the pandemic. 385,000. normal times that s still too high, but you can see on the chart, john, the trend is very clear here. down five weeks in a row. we still have about 15.4 million people receiving some sort of jobless check. those are going to start to expire heading into the fall. this number is going to come down, too. we re marking a brand-new phase of the great american reopening. covid behind us in terms of the economic calamity it caused and moving forward to the hiring. another big report is the adp private sector payroll number suggested about a million people were hired. so the hiring is actually happening. we ll get the government report
it s not the majority of people in this country. it is a number i don t believe it s the majority of people in the republican party. so remember, you have to look at the percentage of the electorate. the percentage of people who are part of the republican party and the percentage of people who believe in that. it s not a majority of people in this country. i just wonder if we overinflate it, if we give too much of a voice to it because donald trump right now is the wizard ofs oz. he s the man behind the curtain and doesn t have any power. his power comes from us that we keep promoting him and we keep talking about this. sometimes we should probably ignore a lot of it because he has look. he was deplatformed. look what happened with disinformation on social media the moment he was deplatformed. and his you know, the desk of donald j. trump blog. it s gone. because no one was logging in. sometimes we should just go and let him be and let him