the dow gaining 247, the s&p 500 added 30. the nasdaq jumped 188 today. something has got to give. we are scared to start on january 3rd without a testing and protection we need in place. my children are going to be in school. i am keeping my schools open and we are going to make sure that they are going to be in a safe place. that includes doubling the amount of testing that we re looking at. we are supporting our educators by providing a safe learning environment. providing vaccination for our students as young as 5 so the whole school community is safe and providing testing so-to-make sure someone is sick that they stay home. bret: school districts around the country dealing with winter weather but also dealing with covid and teachers unions specifically in chicago, as you saw in that soundbite, weatherer whether the teachers are going to go back into the classrooms.
go back to school, as hugh says, you have to get a test, because of course kids need to be in school. we have known this for the entire pandemic, the world has known this for the entire pandemic. it is mind blowing that there are closed schools anywhere this country, some are saying to come back you have got get a test, and it s really hard to get a test in much of the country, especially in large cities, blue areas, like trying to find gold at your local cvs or walgreen s. this is a catastrophic failure of the biden administration and our public health bureaucracy. we are now in our third calendar year of this pandemic. and at this stage we still have a shortage on testing, available, reliable and cheap testing finance almost unfathomable here we are from the administration got elected as president promising to shut down the virus, a key tool not available readily. bret: i went to cvs, i could not find at home tests. you wanted to get them for
that five day period to get tested. that is something that is now under consideration. the cdc is very well aware that there has been some pushback about that. and then there is the question of how to require testing when tests are so hard to find. and the 500 million promised by the biden administration are no closer to reaching americans door steps. the contract to buy them still in the works and the website to order them not yet set up. as demand for tests builds, many school districts are requiring students and staff to test negative before returns to class. some opting to go virtual in the meantime. something education secretary cardona wants to avoid. the goal ask in person learning suffered enough. teachers say not until the current infection wave abates. returning to school will worsen the crisis. the chicago teachers union telling its members to only do remote work until their safety concerns are met. senate republicans are also
guidance may be that if the isolation is only 5 days instead of 10 that you get a odessa afterwards. the problem is you can t get a test. and that s complicating people s process of dealing with covid. bret, two words to describe cdc are erratic and incoherent. i m particularly concerned about mothers and fathers of children at school looking for guidance on when to send their child into a school if they have had covid, when to get them a booster shot. in fact, if you go any one of you, attempt to find guidance on when should a child under the age of 12 get a booster shot if they have had covid, you won t find it because the cdc is incoherent. their advice is erratic and i think their crash of credibility is pulling counsel the president s. if schools close it s going to be a disaster politically poor for president biden but worse a disaster for these kids who need to be in school. bret: guy? and if the requirement is to
early founders of mrna vaccines and it was very controversial in that it talked about a lot of things and criticized a lot of the cdc and the federal government, however, twitter banned it youtube pulled it and now it s one of the most watched or listened to podcasts. the every attempt to censor anything will always rebound with attention on that which is being censored. it s unfortunate that cdc is so incoherent when they are incoherent and erratic it opens the door for misinformation. the key information guy takes away schools had have to be open. governors who are open have to have air paco moments fire air traffic controllers: it s consequential for these kids to not be in school. bret: thank you, panel, stand by. see you later in the show. growing anxiety over the russian troop build-up along its border