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How good is this economic comeback? lets get perspective. mark zandy, chief economist for moodys. grateful for your time today. the president calls this historic. and the president at the beginning of his remarks raised a point. he essentially is making the point that finally the american economy, the strength of the economy, has outwrestled covid. and the economy is now driving the show. is that true? >> i think thats a good point. yeah, i think the economy is on track doing well. you know, i t...

Its risky to lift mask retirements and what should the threshold be? >> i want to explain the difference between mask mandates and requirement. dr. walensky said its still important to wear a mask if youre not feeling well or youre in a crowded place. even if there are not requirements, the recommendations stay the same. theres always a risk in the case that cases fell during the delta wave where with ohm crock, it was super high. youve seen states move on the direction to take them away. >> the...

Economic columnist for "the washington post." good to see you, heather. so the question to you is why was this so unexpected? because there was a huge margin between what was expected and what actually happened. >> thats exactly right, alex. a lot of people were expecting, including goldman sachs were forecasting a negative, that we would actually lose jobs in january. so when that number came out that said we added 467,000 jobs in january, there were gasps when it initially came, followed by so...

For just one hundred days im asking which turned into a year. but none of this ever matter did it for the elites in the well connected like gavin newsom at the french laundry and the obamas and the heat of the delta wave celebrating barack sixtieth with a blowout bash in the vineyard. no masks, no problem. these celebrity of hypocrites always had an explanation though, didnt they , for violating the rules of regular people still had to abide by a word about the entire game and people ask for a p...

Looking for that weve entered endemic phase, rather than being in a pandemic? >> well, i think the first thing we want to see is this omicron wave, don, go way down to the point where it was before it started. um, as the delta wave had really descended in the south. so, you know, were -- were only about halfway down, and its unclear whether itll get stuck there for a while just like it did in the uk. so, the first thing that has to happen is the omicron wave has to really descend down to the bot...

On natural immunity but we do. a recent cdc study shows that. natural immunity was stronger than vaccines alone during the delta wave. great. so if natural immunity is stronger than a vaccine we can drop the mandates now, right? right? well, that would be the case if this was about public health. but we all know its not. the vaccine business is good known. just ask pfizer. last year the companys revenue soared 24.1 billion. up 134%. the vax business alone was responsible for more than 60% of the...

Even with that, people still hitting the roads, hitting the air waves. it seems as if people resistant to travel, will, you write in your piece, its not because theyre afraid of getting covid. in fact, its just the restrictions. theyre more worried about that, or they just dont want to deal. >> exactly. and i thought that expedia, the travel software company, they put it really well. they called it the inconvenience factor. theyre seeing people cancel flights, sure, this december and january bec...

Write back to normal. and they came in, people got backs, and that first spring felt back to normal. my brother got married, right? we all got together and thought, we are back baby! here -- im giving a specimen speech from my bro. and then, wait a second. not so back to normal. and thats where the approval ratings go from 52, 50, three down to 30, 39. its not rocket science. >> the other thing that happen is the delta hit, then afghanistan happen. so the twin pillars of who he is, this trusts d...

The pandemic as a whole? are we leaving pandemic stage entering endemic stage? >> well, right now were -- people use the word endemic. i dont know what it means for covid-19 because weve seen how this actually goes in very dramatic waves, so its not like its just percolating along at a low level in perpetuity. it goes way down and way up so one of the big questions now, what happens with that ba.2 subvariant? its not as clear-cut as it was with the alpha wave and the delta wave and omicron wave ...

Is what happens with that ba.2 subvariant. its not as clear-cut as it was with the alpha wave and the delta wave and the omicron wave. once that became the dominant variant then you saw a big peak. with ba.2 in western europe were seeing it all over the map. in some places it produces a big wave, in other places it doesnt. so were kind of holding our breath to see where things fall out in the united states. it may be one scenario thats being tossed around it may be a regional wave, not across th...