We see a lot of repeated violations here. Inspectors seeing the same thing again and again. Why cant those separately rather than grouping issues together . Yeah, that was something that we put a lot of thought into and we were actually much more conservative than lawyers would be about this. When youve seen similar cases in the us, the violations often get into the thousands because they will count every hour or every day that violations continued, whereas we just looked at every event. Given that, 189 we think is a pretty large number. Not everyone would agree the scale of these environmental breaches is egregious. If you look at each individual plant, youre probably only looking at one or two breaches of varying degrees of magnitude each year. For a large industrialfacility in the uk, thats something similar to what ive seen in the various businesses that ive looked at over the years. So i wanted to show you this database, but when we showed angus the evidence, while some violations
record retired narratives like this. if you are vaccinated and boosted coming you are highly protected. you know, be concerned about omicron, but don t be alarmed. and if you are unvaccinated coming you have some reason to be alarmed. there is no excuse, no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. if you are vaccinated and boosted, you may get covid, but you are highly protected against severe illness. greg: no excuse. of the president not spending much time on his testing failure, people forced to wait in line and can t get at home tests. but joe biden claims he is making progress. i know this remains frustrating, believe me, it is frustrating to me. but we are making improvements. with more capacity of her in person tests we should see weight line shortened and more appointments freed up, google covid tests near me to find the
as i said in the intro, it s totally ridiculous at this point in the pandemic, is it not, to be unable to get access to rapid tests, pcr tests. what do you think is behind this testing failure? well, i think the problem is, throughout the pandemic, we ve trusted in the private market to deliver. and we really should be thinking about public health as more like homeland security being proactive, looking for upcoming threats and reacting, you know, ahead of time. and the private market reacts when there s demand. so, you know, suddenly there s a big spike in omicron, and we think suddenly that all of these private players, the cvs, the walgreens, the pop-up testing sites are going to be ready. and they weren t, of course. so, you know, for me, as for so many people, you know, i had exposure, i had symptoms, and finding getting a pcr result took five days. at which point it was mostly
testing for travel. it is a place where they can be exposed, and i think it s very risky. but the challenge is finding testing sites, and i think that s why e.r.s have kind of dealt with these additional challenges of patients who just need testing. the administration has been more clear this week about the testing failure for this country, and they re trying to do something about it, ordering half a billion tests, but i wonder what your message is to the federal government right now. is that the number-one thing that you guys need, is just more tests? or is there something else that would be most helpful at this point? i think more tests absolutely is really important. in addition to that, vaccine mandates. i think the more people who can get vaccinated, the more protection there will be. ultimately, i d love to see children under 5 being vaccinated. i know there are trials going on now for that. in the meantime, the best way to
differently. i know kevin mccarthy is thinking about that. xh summer rolls around you will see a republican agenda that when they go into the summer break go home and campaign on and i don t think that the democrats can recover from this but never underestimate the republicans ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. julie: benjamin: inflation and worker shortages have sent wages skyrocketing in florida. a mandated wage hike in one city could cause some businesses to close for good. the media turning a blind eye to the testing failure. a big switch from the scrutiny under president trump.