well, it s complicated, chris. if you look at our cases, there really is, if you look at the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, the charts are really, really rather profound. particularly among vaccinated and boosted individuals. where you see the overwhelming majority of the people who are in the hospital and are dying are people who are unvaccinated. it is true that this virus has a phenomenal degree of transmissibility, and the transmissibility means a lot of people are going to get infected. i believe you re going to see, and we re already starting to see that, when you talk anecdotally to the hospitals, they re seeing a lot of people who are getting infected but it appears that the seriousness of it is less. i think once we get through, since it s a big country, and there s different regions with different levels of vaccination, different levels of what we call
because it willjust be nice and it will not tell the truth about humanity. and what you get more and more is comedy trying so hard to be warm and fuzzy that it tells no truth about humanity. you get it elsewhere. you get it in drama, in succession, written by the bloke who wrote peep show as it happens, but i think comedy is going a bit soft. right. so, if comedy really is about getting to the truth of humanity, is there nothing in david baddiel s sort of theoretical world of comedy that is off limits? no, well, in terms of the off limits of things, again, it s complicated. the truth is always complex and the truth of comedy is complex. and in the show, as you know, i tell some jokes that are about the holocaust. my point about doing that is that it s not about the subject matter. the subject matter is not how you tell whether a joke is unacceptable. you have to deconstruct the individualjoke because what happens in any joke is you can tell a very horrible, mean, racist joke about the
visa, and there was no path to win this case and the three judges agreed within an hour unanimously that this was it for him this year. i want to show some op-ed headlines, and some are saying he should have gotten vaccinated and isolated when he tested positive, and we know he didn t interview in a photo shoot after a mess. what is the long term after this? it s complicated. he was already a polarizing figure. those who love him and defend him will forgive any transgression, major or minor, and a lot of people do not like him and the australians have been through the ringer as far as covid goes and it s raging right now and they have no
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it s complicated. just give some perspective. the beginning of the year we saw markets hitting record highs. we know we re in an economic recovery. however, at the same time, and i know you asked vice president harris about this, inflation is hitting a 40-year high show who can do something about this, the federal reserve? the fed is meeting today and tomorrow and the likely outcome will be an announcement that they are going to raise interest rates. that will kind of cool the economy a little an slow things down. that s good for the overall economy. it spooks markets a little bit because when rate are at zero, artificially low, that s like the federal reserve chairman put a big safety night around the market because it makes it easier for individuals and businesses to bore, o. that s how you can crow. they are thinking they can take the safety net away and that leaves the stock market more