the real number is . but we can be confident the toll is in the hundreds of thousands. so inof tands every level covidd america, centuries old traditions just evaporated. it s a different country d and not a better one .oe but that doesn t mean thated everybody suffered under countless small businesses or under that devastated our middle class mid. but at the same time, thanks too the lockdown s, the tech monopolies thrived. apple, google, amazon alsoca e their market caps explode. jeffxp bezos went up much than ever before. not that he needed the money, but no group benefited more from the covid pandemic than the leaders of communist china. by april of 2020 one , that would be more thann a year into covid when we were suffering here in chinahe, gdp had reached the highest level ever recorded. china s economy. was growing faster after the pandemic than it had been beforeemth the pandc . that c and as a result of that,hina cha will soon overtake the united states as theos world s domina
0 you are legal now you re in business. applebee s late night because it s just for fun. so that s good in the neighborhood. good evening. welcome .om as tucker carlson said. a look back for a moment. coronv the coronavirus pandemicir that would be the virus itself and our government s response to it turns out to have beenut v the single most destructive event to take place in in united states our lifetime. so destructive that it s going to be many yearssove t beforeha for certain whatho the last two and a half years have cost to all ofco us . but even now the outlines of itc are clear . covid crashed our economy econom first and foremost. gdp fell by the biggest f percentage since the greatelt depression. twenty two million americans lost their jobs in the first two months of the lockdown s. remember thatha we may not know is that at least five million of them never went back to work. they dropped out of the workforce apparently for good at the same time as fewer people were working.