having trouble filling the kettle this year. i can t imagine the covid craziness is helping that how dire is that situation? you re absolutely right, todd. at this point question tellses are down about kettles are down about 10%, due to labor shortages, due to omicron, also due the fact that people aren t carrying as much cash as they used to. although kettles themselves are down, we re seeing a very fine level of giving digitally. so we re looking forward to receiving lots of support this year. carley: you know, we think a lot about the salvation army, especially around christmas, because of the kettles that you re talking about, the red kettles with the people, with the people ringing the bells and all that but you help all year round. tell us what the salvation salvation armydoes behind the st maybe some people don t know about. the salvation army is at work every year. we help about 30 million americans every year through 7,000 locations in every zip code of the country.
been a pastor, a counselor almost the entire time that i ve known, you are a husband, father, son, brother. but you have also i mean pain and loss have not given you a pass in life either. how do we kind of balance the loss with the joy of of the the hole holidays, how do we balance the loss with what we still have. i think trey, with this covid craziness. with mandates and masks and all that, we know that divorce rate has sky rocketed, a lot of people died, depression, and addiction, my wife and i lost our oldest daughter january 19, there is a parallel track in a lot of lives, the nightmare of losing someone, i know so
she walks to her internship because of public health, that is a public health tucker: what does covid have to do with homeless camps? speak at the cdc said breaking up homeless camps would spread covid. basically anything. fair elections would spread covid. teachers having to work with spread covid. breaking up homeless camps would spread covid. arresting people would spread covid. tucker: disagreeing with blm riots spread covid. pretty much, that is the worst way to get it and you deserve it. tucker: how often do you bump up against covid regulations? how big a part of your life? they got rid of it for a minute but i was surprised they did at the beginning of the vaccines come i didn t think it was ever going away and then they realized they wanted to forever so they brought it back. the warm weather broke some covid craziness because it is above all, they try to be very
will: new york city mayor bill de blasio might be on his way out but he plans to take fall sports with him, i guess. this morning he tweeted out new guidelines for athletes threatening students who haven t been vaccinated. get this: you have to have the covid-19 vaccine shot, required for all students and staff participating in quote high risk public school athletic league sports this year. these athletes already last last year to covid now it looks like they could have another season stolen from. they this covid craziness is not exclusive to the big apple, washington state is going even a step further. they are requiring all teachers and staff in the state to be vaccinated or risk being fired. when is this madness going to stop? let s ask seattle radio host jason rantz. jason, tell me how far can it go in washington? i mean, we re going to find out. this was not you might get fired
New COVID-19 infections in North Carolina rose sharply Wednesday and hospitalizations continued their upward trend.
An infectious disease expert at Duke University told reporters that hospitalizations will continue to go up as more people who are newly infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 develop symptoms that require inpatient care.
“It’s baked into the system that the number is going to go up for at least a couple of weeks,” said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at Duke Health and an associate professor at the Duke University School of Medicine.
Most new infections and hospitalizations are caused by the more contagious coronavirus delta variant. Wolfe said time between infection and symptoms is compressed with delta variant.