inflation out the wazoo and supply chain shortage, empty shelves. we left them the greatest most sophisticated testing system in the world outpacing all of western europe combined and they couldn t even imagine to keep that up. it is a train wreck on every single level. there are still 3 million jobs short by the way of where we were pre-pandemic. a mix of all of it hit the nail on the head. total incompetence but ideology as well choosing to go the way of the squad than the way of reasonable americans. pete: mollie, you are incompetent. they know who joe biden is and kamala harris is. they are trying to surround them with staff and trying to reboot. but they are also totally dug in on an ideology that they know is going to hurt people in the short-term and i guess they are just going to have to deal with it? first off i want to defend eleanor holmes norton. she is 84 years old. that is not a beautiful parking
the covid operations are meeting and there are discussions about various things but one of those discussions is about changing guidance when it comes to testing. at the moment the rules are if you have symptoms you go and get a pcr test and then isolate if it is positive. lots of people are doing lateral flow tests when they don t have symptoms. the guidance for that is if you get a little red line for a positive lateral flow test then you should get that backed up with a confirmatory pcr test and isolate if you are positive. it s the second part that will change. ministers will say you do not have to get a pcr test to confirm your initial lateral flow test. that would mean there would be less demand on pcr tests. it s a bit of a change to the status of lateral flows as you implied with your question, because they have always been seen as second class. this would kind of give them almost parity with pcr tests. but also it would mean that many fewer people go into the official testing s
that year. respond to what angie the point that angie is making here. i don t think there s an issue. i know teachers, and i know teachers want to be in school. but they want to be in school where it s safe and healthy. they understand the social, emotional, and academic toll it took on students to stay home. but to bring us back to school was something that was not in the teachers control. the ventilation systems are old in many buildings, and, truthfully, it is going to take billions of dollars to fix them. schools can t do social distancing. testing, we ve been saying all along, one of the things we need is a rigorous testing system in schools so we can control, or at least know, if there is a covid
infections are still very high, the government surveillance programme estimated one and 19 people in england was positive last week although hospital cases are still falling. one of the theatres it could leave people feeling under pressure to return to work before they have recovered both one of the fears. we don t know what it means the sick pay and isolation payments some people are entitled to. there are others who say we can overestimate the impact that government rules have. the government rules have. the government didn t place any rules on mixing at christmas and the numbers of contacts people were having was actually very low, similar to levels in the first lockdown. it s not like the testing system picked up all the infections, it s only picking up half the cases so not everyone is being told to formally isolate. it s why some experts say it might not have that big an impact on infections. it was largely unenforceable so they think people
joe biden runs out of tests after christmas he runs out of monoclonal antibodies. can t get the antivirals. they didn t have operation warp speed for anything, they learn nothing from donald trump. we in the trump administration left joe biden the most advanced, most sophisticated testing system in the modern world. in western europe. we were out testing all of western europe combined. he destroyed it and he was offered a plan, as vanity fair said, creating millions of covid tests and he rejected it. he is an utter and complete failure. that s why he has a 30% approval rating on covid and his marks are lower on other things. sean: 33% overall. keep on going, joe. you re doing great. we look forward to kellyanne s book. kayleigh had a great best-selling book herself. when we come back, trump held a massive rally in texas over the weekend. estimates over 80,000 people. how many people can joe get?