and was getting through to trump and influenced the way he handled this. and you write in your book, his opinions took hold and influenced the president of the united states and others in the administration and ultimately cost us thousands more lives and added greatly to the unfolding tragedy. and here we are, a year and a half into the biden administration, i have to ask you, does it seem like that scott atlas won? covid is everywhere. restrictions are gone. the vaccines and boosters did not reach the level the experts wanted and we re just litting it rip in this country now. we have common sense tools to stop it. the fact that since this january 1st, 175,000 americans have died. just in the last four and a half months. that s five times any annual flu death. so we need to take this five times more seriously than we take flu and lay out to the
text messages from meadows that things may really be dangerous here. and they might ve believe that on that day as well. do you think there s like this would matter to a merrick garland? i m sure that he is listening to them. i hope that he s watching. michael, one person who may be a pretty muted thus far about mccarthy is trump, but tonight, tucker carlson let it rip. watch this. unless conservatives get their act together right away, kevin mccarthy, or one of his highly liberal allies is very likely to be speaker of the house in january. that would mean we have a republican congress led by a puppet of the democratic party. highly liberal allies elise stefanik who took liz cheney down. that is crazy town. but, in all seriousness, if
if i go up into flames. the other is that, it tells me a little bit about how they understood january 6th. they ve been warned, and we re gonna get to the subject of the text messages from meadows that things may really be dangerous here. and they might ve believe that on that day as well. do you think there s like this would matter to a merrick garland? i m sure that he is listening to them. i hope that he s watching. michael, one person who may be a pretty muted thus far about mccarthy is trump, but tonight, tucker carlson let it rip. watch this. unless conservatives get their act together right away, kevin mccarthy, or one of his highly liberal allies is very likely to be speaker of the house in january. that would mean we have a republican congress led by a puppet of the democratic party. highly liberal allies elise
here in the u.s. but in addition to that, you re also dealing with an underserved or a short-staffed health care system around the globe, particularly in the u.s. what you re dealing with is a huge number of patients coming in at the same time, dealing with multiple medical illnesses that are exacerbated by the omicron variant, so simply letting it rip does nothing for the population except increase excess death which is a much more accurate indicator of what omicron is doing rather than looking at directly contributed to omicron. meanwhile, as you know, doctor, 82% of icu hospital beds as we understand it, those are the numbers there in florida. 82% of icu beds are in use there where you are. how are hospitals there handling this limited bed capacity? what are some of the difficult choices that are being made
the second is it is nuts to just let a virus go loose. we don t know enough about this virus. it tells us every three or four months we don t know beans about it. just to let it loose is like letting your puppy loose into traffic. i mean, just don t do it because you have no clue. you have no control over the puppy. you have no control over the virus. you just don t do it. it is sort of a well, you talked about that. you talked about being a novel virus, why it is called a novel coronavirus, people with weakened immune systems. but i think the biggest point to not let it rip you said, furthermore since they have trouble clearing the virus, right, meaning people who get omicron, it may linger for months in their body possibly creating a hot house environment to promote new variants any of which might be the next variant of concern. so you just don t know. that is why it continues to replicate and continues to mutate because, you know, people just sort of let it rip. yes.