we are moving away from being a work-based society and it s primarily at the very young end and older end. it s not so much there in the age 30 through 55 demographic. mostly the labor participation force erosion since covid is coming in the same area where it did after the last financial crisis, and that s people into their late 50 s and 60 s, and then at the younger end and in both cases, i think it s a cultural epidemic, not merely, neil, for the economic consequences which are severe, which do create labor shortage, which exacerbate the labor shortage and led the president president of the united states to say incredibly stupid things, but it s morally, spiritually, existentially for people not working and that purpose and joy that comes from being engaged in the work force.
is long-standing precedent that the states have the right to impose vaccine mandates. so this is a new issue. there s certainly skepticism. i have not heard the argument about the health care worker case, so i can t assess that. it s just starting. yes. it s just starting, so i did hear from skepticism, but it s not clear because this is a matter of life and death, and osha is a powerful administrative agency that has done lots of things. let me play for you what the ohio solicitor general argued about saying the mandates are too broad, and i want to get your response. here s what ben flowers said. osha could regulate covid-19 in the workplace when the employer does something like packing individuals closely together in a poorly ventilated area that enhances or changes the nature of the risk, i should
the anti-virals that are easily accessible as they come online so that you have a simple process. take a test, get a positive result, get extra prescription. get an anti-viral. all in one sitting. so that a new normal will look like not like hey, there s no covid, but what it will look like is hey, we have enough science and enough tools and enough good sense that covid is no longer a major threat to us. you know, is it as simple as creating some sort of metric like look, all right, this is a i remember in the 80s, you find out today is a bad air day in l.a. and okay, and put on the mask. today is a bad covid month. or do you think we ll get to the point where covid is semi seasonal like we know it goes south in the summer and north in the winter so maybe winter states you got to wear masks. things like that? is that what a new normal for the next 18 months to two years
reporters in jail in hong kong. we have spoke ben this virus that has now killed millions of people across the world this all came from the chinese communist party. they should be held accountable for each of the things and shouldn t be permitted to benefit from the glory of the olympic movement. laura: the fact we never got unique access into that wuhan lab, we were never able to examine the original documents, the information on who patient zero was. a year exactly later, oh, it s just like applause, thank you, sir. may i have another? he ll be sitting there in all of his splendor in the stadium bragging they were able to control covid in their country, of course, by welding people into their apartments and we re not sending diplomats though there, mr. secretary. that ll show em. does that make a difference in
yet. hospital zaizations in that age group are up 48% from a little more than a month ago. with the public exasperated by what seems like an endless pattern of covid surges, americans want to know when will it end. at a news conference on friday, president joe biden was asked if this was going to be the new normal. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we re developing. now certain some health experts say any kind of normal will likely mean living with covid in much the same way we live with the flu. a former adviser to president biden spoke with anderson cooper on friday and explained what it would take to get past the exorbitant case numbers that we re seeing now. unfortunately, if you