amongst voters. on both parties. on the other hand, you re worried about how this is looking, and how this is going down. from biden s point of view, i m a conservative, i m not a fan of a lot of the spending programs. but he has a huge political problem, and he needs to reset, the democrats can no longer make the mistake, they paid a big political price, of confusing partisan control of the senate, with ideological control. they asked manchin to go into places where joe manchin from west virginia, where joe biden got under a third of the vote. can t go. the question is, now can they chop it down to some of the most popular elements. pass those, and have a fight over the other elements. because it s an election year, in a lot of what the senate becomes as a platform, to try to control the agenda of the election. they have to accept mansions as a facts of life. they have to slim it down. and they have to pass something, and then go on offense of other things. i think that s the smarte
i was going to ask you, mark, the president has made clear that the country is not headed for another round of shuptdowns and lockdowns. he keeps saying this is not march of 2020. do you think the u.s. economy could sustain another round like that? well, i don t think we re going down that path. we shut businesses we came to a complete standstill and that was devastating to the economy, to jobs, to unemployment. we are in a very different place today than we were two years ago. so not arguing that. i think it is pretty clear that the pandemic is still doing real damage and has an impact the way people behave, the sheltering in place they do, the amount of travel they do. it affects businesses because people get sick. you can t people can t go to work or they re fearful of going to work. it scrambles supply chains because other parts of the world have different protocols. we re not going to shut down
help us provide basic care so that we don t have people sitting in the waiting rooms of our emergency departments. we can also invest in training some of our lower level, more easily trained health care workers, things like certified nursing assistants. the training doesn t take long. we are so universally short on cnas. having more of them would make a huge difference. then things like allowing physicians to work across state lines, increasing reimbursement for tele health, other basic strategies that were used in the beginning of the pandemic that could be used again to stem the overwhelm a little bit right now. switching to the pandemic response specifically. a lot of questions about testing. can t go to a supermarket and find tests that you can do at home which everyone wants. take a listen to what jen psaki said earlier this month. why not just make them free and give them out and have them
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people s livelihoods and lives, can t go through more shutdowns and restrictions. do you agree with that? everyone keeps saying we still don t know enough about omicron to know exactly what to do. is the mayor right or is he getting out ahead, putting the cart ahead of the horse, if you will? i don t think we should be forgot begun delta, there s a omicron surge as well. let s worry about delta even if he had delta and not omicron i think vaccine requirements are necessary and appropriate at this point although i do wish that in new york city they were offering an out when it comes to testing, as if i would much rather this be framed as a testing and masking requirement which you can opt out of if you re fully vaccinated. there is a real danger to having vaccine requirements across the board but are a religious exemption out because then what ends up shopping that loophole gets big and big and if many people are now claiming a religious exemption that could