struggle even more with filling jobs because we re having a tough time to begin with. obviously that is a national problem but if you force these individuals who do not want to follow the mandate for whatever reason they are going to stay home. what does that do? it compounds fact that you have a number of other workers staying home, one because they haven t gone back to work yet since the start of the pandemic. two, following this omicron variant. they re not in the city. what does this do? it destroys the economy t makes it even more difficult for these liberal and progressive mayors throughout our country to enact their agenda with taxpayer dollars. what will they do? they will do it anyway. these cities go into more of a death spiral, and as a result we re in the situation we re in, will. will: you ask how much is connected to our health. let s walk through this really quickly you can add one, one, and one up to 3:00. carley made the point. what does canceling pausing student loan
december, i wonder if knees, could this be omicron? i don t know. because the symptoms are largely the same. let s move to this morning, eagle eyed i guess observers those that can see through the meaning of things have noticed that in kamala harris, vice president kamala harris s christmas tweet she put a train around the christmas tree a amtrak train around the christmas tree and i guess that has some hidden meaning to many. while there has been, some, i don t know tension in the white house between the two camps, harris and biden, apparently this might be an homage, carley, i m not one who i see what you meant there, i m a literal person, i guess that amtrak train might be literal high-five to joe biden after what has been a rocky patch in the relationship, according to
before testing positive or two days before symptoms begin. then about three or four-days after symptoms begin. but fur asymptomatic and still test positive on a rapid antigen test, you can still spread to other people. now if you have no symptoms and you test positive on a pcr, the most accurate test, that is understandable. we expect a pcr test to remain positive for up to 90 days but not a rapid antigen. that is the key. that is the one that needs to be negative. carley: you know i think a lot of people watching this program right now they think you know, if omicron is similar to a cold then why aren t we treating it like a cold? why are we testing everybody and why are we making people quarantine even for five days? can you add some perspective to that thought process? and that may change as we learn more about this virus but
is number one strain in the united states, it presents more like a cold why aren t we treating it like a cold? in south africa, if you test positive in south africa, you are asymptomatic, you don t have to quarantine. if you get a positive test, do back to work the same day. with natural immunity, people tested positive for covid previously, because of their vaccinated population, the fact omicron is so much less severe, makes no point in destructing work lives, everyday lives to have people asymptomatic, will, stay home. will: you know, carley, not to make light again of something that can be, can be very serious but increasingly more often than not is not serious, i have allergies right now. i guess the juniper is out in texas, mid winter, probably because we have 80-degree
wising number of cases, rising number of positive tests. not the metric on health of the nation. deaths in the country, half of what they were one year ago. we have stats we can put them up on the screen. number of cases, 2021, have risen, number of deaths have been shaved in half. what that tells us is, omicron is much less severe than than any previous covid wave we ve experienced. most likely we developed natural immunity throughout the population. i leave it with you, todd. i find this fascinating. throughout the entire pandemic, todd, we re two years in. throughout the pandemic the entire conversation can only be about vaccinations. it is fascinating to me. it is not fascinating, it is