at this time last year and if you re ever, the thing is with covid, it is not a winter infection per se, we have a spring season, spring outbreak, and a winter outbreak and it always starts in september and the cases tip up through to november and at two december and january. that is what we have seen the last two years. i think it is reasonable to expect to see something similar this year. 88%, nearly 90% of the cases in the uk at the moment are a variation on omicron, which most of your viewers had in december and january of last year if they have not had it subsequently because it is really super infectious that one. and really quite nasty. i know two people who have had covid recently, fully vaccinated and they had previously had covid, so the booster willjust previously had covid, so the booster will just give your previously had covid, so the booster willjust give your immune system that little bit of an extra help to
that s called the u.s. economy coming in here s why, it was improved greatly, people forgot this, i know the election was crazy, i know that january 6th was nuts, but the trump economy was pretty strong, particularly as he left office. on top of that, he delivered a vaccine which was effective against those first two very deadly variance, less effective on omicron, but did not matter. it was basically we were coming out of the pandemic. the economy was going to improve. and this is what they did, they turn around and they spent trillions of dollars, nothing. and they expected no inflation, they encouraged jerome powell to keep printing money when he did not need to. it was the textbook recipe for inflation. i have the equivalent of a minor in econ and i could see it coming. she is supposedly a great economist and everything they have done since then increase
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winston dog, the prime minister looks to winston churchill of the person that he looks winston churchill of the person that he looks to winston churchill of the person that he looks to and emulates, winston churchitt he looks to and emulates, winston churchill was trying to deal with the second world war and now we have a situation the second world war and now we have a situation where we were dealing with an a situation where we were dealing with an operation save big dog. it s ust with an operation save big dog. it s just unbecoming of the serious business just unbecoming of the serious business of government and there are some business of government and there are some very business of government and there are some very good competent ministers and to some very good competent ministers and to be some very good competent ministers and to be fair to the prime minister. and to be fair to the prime minister, he has made some decent calls and minister, he has made
as burnley struggled with the virus and injuries. no issues with the weekend s biggest game though which is tomorrow lunchtime between leaders manchester city and second placed chelsea who are ten points behind. chelsea s head coach thomas tuchel has suggested city have been lucky not to have been as heavily impacted by covid as other teams but it s not a view pep guardiola agrees with. are you saying that you re in manchester, we are the smartest that omicron does not like to come here to visit us? we had a lot of cases. and a lot of injuries. so, we play in aston villa with 11 plays. so, the last a56 to seven games, they re in the back and there in the same situation as all other clubs. well on sunday all eyes will be on the