point, what sort of crisis is going to develop to take the place of any kind of substantive policy or any kind of remedy for stagflation or anything else? i m not quite sure. now you just mentioned it. they are trying to ratchet up covid again. it s endemic at this point. can we all acknowledge it is endemic? you have a virus, you have to act be smart as we talk to the public and educate people as to how live with endemic i willss. we do it with the cold and flu and number of other things. we are fear-mongering. panic creates some kind of need. people are going to be rushing into. they can t tell us, they can t bring positivity they can t tell us what biden has done since he has been in office. they can t tell us what democrats have done since they have come in office except pronouns and advising gas, et cetera, et cetera. fear porn that s what they are going to drive us all into. will: of course.
a new normal, living with covid. we re going to able to control this. the new normal is not going to be what it is now. it s going to be better. but amending his pledge to shut down the virus with a new caveat. having covid in the environment here in the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we are dealing with it now, is not here to stay. the comments come as coronavirus muddles yet another jobs report, december s making for the weakest of the entire year. 199,000 jobs added falling far short of the 400,000 forecasters expected. worse yet, the data was collected ahead of the omicron wave. spooking economists. the president glossed over the bad turning instead to the good. unemployment falling to 3.9%. the sharpest one-year drop in unemployment in the united states history. we have added 6.4 million new jobs since january of last year. one year.
act. the second case weighed whether the administration can mandate vaccines for workers at healthcare facilities that get federal dollars via medicare or medicaid. justice kagan who cited vaccination is the best way to stop the spread of covid-19 added this. you have to get vaccinated so that you are not transmitting the disease that can kill elderly medicare patients that can kill sick medicaid patients. that seems like a pretty basic infection prevention measure. shannon: with both mandates the opponents cited 1 to 3% of the workforce will quit if forced to choose between vaccination and their jobs. employers who join the case argue while they are already struggling with labor shortages, a walkout on that scale would create a nationwide economic problem and bret, by the way, i expect a decision within days. i would say a couple weeks at the very most. bret: you know, it s always dangerous to read through the tea leaves in the questions because justices can be posing one way
way else. when you look at how that matches up, i mean, does it tilt one way right now? shannon: you know, i think the court could split on these two cases. i think there is more of a flavor for striking down the osha mandate, the one for the employers with 100 or more. i think there is going to be reticence and more hesitation among the justices to strike down the mandate that deals with healthcare workers but i don t think we will have to wait long to find out. bret: okay. shannon, as always, thanks. we will see you don t. president biden appears to be changing his tune tonight, telling reporters we can contain covid. , this of course, after months of pledging to defeat the virus as a candidate and then president-elect and president. it comes as today s jobs report showed unemployment falling to 3.9%, but the u.s. economy only adding 199,000 jobs, far short of the expected 400,000. here s white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. president biden bucking calls from former membe
mask mass border patrol agents side of the road in mission. impacting federal manpower here. per dhs source as of yesterday, border patrol s rio grande valley sector has over 200 employees quarantined with 188 confirmed to be infected with covid. also friday morning, yet another crash involving a human smuggler in the rgv. in farrior texas, a law enforcement force tells fox news a smuggler was fleeing from police with five illegal immigrants in his vehicle when he crashed and rolled over on the highway. the smuggler and his human cargo all arrested. also in the rio grande valley, this salvador ran sex offender arrested by border patrol after crossing illegally in hidalgo on wednesday. agents say he gave a fake name and has a previous record in houston for indecency with a child, stalking and child abuse. border patrol has arrested more