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why he can still come to work. he said i am the only customer that came through the store today. so he says the fever has gone down, but he still has a cold. hoping to buy medicine. he s worried there is none in stock because there is long lines in pharmacies across the country. people are trying to stock up, but it is sold out. for years china has been demonizing covid. and now suddenly the media is publishing headlines every day saying covid is not a big deal. it is whiplash for a lot of people because weeks before if you got covid your whole community would have gone into hard lockdown. this is such a major and sudden change. so china is finally opening up. how do you feel about it? i feel it s pretty great. i wish they could have opened up earlier. reporter: has business been very slow or difficult?
you know, you can see there are not that many customers. people just got embarrassed. reporter: are you scared about getting covid? i m worried about my parents and my grandparents a little bit. reporter: people are relieved, though, that you no longer have to go to a quarantine facility if you get covid. getting sent to one of those run down facilities was such a big source of anxiety before. and these health qr codes used for years to track and dig kate where we can go, well, the government is saying you don t need them to intromost public spaces. so i don t need to scan my code. it feels surreal, though, that i can literally just walk in. she said i can only do online deliveries, so we can t sit outside and order inside. outside this starbucks you have to show a 40-hour covid test. even though the national rules
numbers, the areas that have brought so much economic pain to americans are beginning to get better. now, you know, he was making the argument before the election that this was going to happen and, you know, the election didn t go the way the democrats or republicans necessarily thought. but it wasn t because of inflation. there were other economic issues. there were other driving issues that led to the democrats doing better than expected. i mean, is it is it possible to say that inflation is the most important issue for the 2024 presidential election? if it stays high, how likely is it that biden can get re-elected? it s really hard to say right now. i mean, i was thinking about this, anderson. if you and i at this point in the last presidential cycle were to make a prediction, we didn t there was no such thing as covid. there was no such thing as so much that we had to face. you know, covid i think probably