vim. as we said, he intends to get that 21st grand slam title. but i think the metaphor, the larger context between australia and the united states is so utterly fascinating in terms of the way that these different countries that share quite a lot of similarities have behaved to covid and, ultimately, i look at it and say thank god for federalism. without that, we wouldn t have had governors in red states being able to make decisions that would have allowed for a more open government. i think, honestly, we would look in the united states a rot more like australia and a lot less than we do. howard: half a minute left. djokovic s parents are accusing australia of mistreating him. excuse me, this guy makes many millions of dollars from global publicity. whether it was a good legal central or not, should he now talk to the press and explain himself, because a lot of people see him as an overentitled, overpaid athlete. yeah, i think it probably
australia, in this country that initially adopted a covid-zero policy. and the politicians there need to find someone who is a convenient scapegoat to take away from the attention from from the skyrocketing cases. and i believe that djokovic ended up being that scapegoat because as long as everybody was focused on the national drama of whether he was going to be able to play in australia or not, they didn t have to the acknowledge that every single day australia has been setting all-time highs in new can covid cases, and they didn t have to acknowledge here locally in our country the fact that anthony fauci has pointed out that everyone, including me right now, by the way, is going to get the omicron version of covid that is sweeping across the nation whether they are vaccinated or unvaccinated. geffen the fact that joke vim recently djokovic recently had covid, he poses no danger whatsoever to the larger australian populace. and so this, to me, was about
in florida. he says desantis in florida. ing he doesn t think we should have all those tests. it s a cold day in hell when i m going to agree with desantis on something. the problem, howie, is we have people out there with symptom that test negative, people out there with no symptom that test positive. people out there that once they get the results of the test still go to work, people who get the results of the test and are treating themselves the same way if they weren t tested which is what doctors are saying, if you have a cough, just assume it s omicron and treat it as such which is very similar treatment to a cold or flu. howard: i think a lot of people are just desperate for a test to have some indication of whether they are sick. i agree. howard: heated and illuminating discussion. susan ferrechio, leslie marshall, thanks. ahead, clay travis on the joke vim djokovic debacle in australia. re on our hotel with kayak.