absentee, it s fraudulent. they re doing this to themselves. it s only hurting themselves, and they are saying to their vote, candidates are saying, don t vote early, vote on election day. case in point, georgia, it was raining in most parts of georgia this past tuesday which i m sure hurt turnout among republicans who waited because that s what their candidates told them to do. wait until election day. democrats, we have been running strong early vote campaigns for a long time. it s a tale as old as time, so there s a lot of reasons, joe, that i can t understand the republican party. this is one that bewilders me, it s a tactic they re criticizing which both democrats and republicans have utilized for a long time. if you vote early, you can track your voters more easily, you can track where the progress is, where you need to spend more money. tweak your campaign strategy around it. this one baffles me as much as it baffles me. long time gop strategist,
fed up, at their wit s end. what do you say to americans? i i i can understand that. and and you know, i think that the the testing thing still sort of baffles me as to how i mean, i think this is the original sin. and and in in medicine, you have to really diagnose a problem to best address it and we still don t really have clear eyes on i mean, it s nuts that we are still talking about not enough testing. i mean, this has been from day one in the old administration. i mean, it s ridiculous. it it is and i i m not sure why it still continues to be this big a problem. yes, there are different tests out there. the antigen test, versus the pcr test and we spent a lot of time on your program talking about the differences and utility of each of those tests. but, you noknow, we should be doing in the billions of tents probably in a month. and right now, we are doing about a million, million and a half tests a day and we are nowhere close to where we projected we shou
vaccinated, that is the whole idea of herd immunity to protect those who need our help the most. so, sanjay, all this confusion or frustration, shortage of rapid at-home tests, week-long appointments for pcr tests, long lines when you show up and five days for results. i mean, lot of people are just fed up, at their wit s end. what do you say to americans? i i i can understand that. and and you know, i think that the the testing thing still sort of baffles me as to how i mean, i think this is the original sin. and and in in medicine, you have to really diagnose a problem to best address it and we still don t really have clear eyes on i mean, it s nuts that we are still talking about not enough testing. i mean, this has been from day one in the old administration. i mean, it s ridiculous. it it is and i i m not sure why it still continues to be this big a problem. yes, there are different tests out there. the antigen test, versus the pcr test and we spent a lot
november with that front in mind. you can watch this party that is behaving in abnormal weighs just gather up the games and being the opposition in a midterm election, and what happens then? right, the gubernatorial election in virginia was a wake up call for a lot of people. a lot of people had fog and associating the republican party at large with the insurrection and we see it in that polling that you just pointed to, the republican party reputation has largely recovered and i think it is a very difficult thing for democrats because a lot of people who are inside rightly see this as an existential threat to american politics that does also not necessarily talk about all the time. for a couple of reasons. both because people more urgent concerns and baffles hierarchy of needs and,
that you and some of your colleagues also have to talk to them, and they don t always meet your information in a well found way. absolutely. i had one man who, you know, was there with an oxygen saturation of less than 80%, which is critically low, and i asked him, have you been vaccinated: why did you make that choice. he said, i don t approve. i didn t go any further. i have people accuse me of trying to get them sick. just heard from the president of our hospital system who was touring the e.r. the other day that whenever they put out information which they are doing, you know, out on social media as much as possible about the wave that s happening, the comments go from, you know, you re lying to make money, you re lying to hurt people or just plain you re lying. so, you know, it s sort of baffles the mind how so many people can look at a system, that they have trusted and i have been there for 20 years taking care of people and their families, and believe our advice and recommend