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Demand, gun control, transgenderrism, and that doesn't appeal to them, so i think -- and there's one other thing, the culture of this bicoastal elite, they talk down to people. the academic media, government class, and a lot of minority groups don't like it. and i think we are going to see a historic transition from left to right among african american males, hispanic, and they can't afford to lose those groups. they need to win them at 70 or 80% majorities because they have so alienated their traditional lunch bucket blue-collar union democrat. they don't exist anymore and i think they don't ...

Want to pick up on the race issue. you've experienced this in your own line of work now. it appears to be expanding with the fda involved. where does it go, doctor? >> welcome back, bill. i'm glad you are healthy. in terms of this issue it is disturbing. we make decisions as physicians based not on race but on risk. risk, not race. what do i mean by that? if somebody is obese they're higher risk or diabetes or over 65 higher risk. we're also very aware of the fact that the black population has a lot of distrust built into the medical establishment and they tend to be more on the front line. mo...

Giving them more serious disease and they tend to be at a higher risk category, and tend to be to a large degree people who are in minority groups. yet critics have said well, people who are unvaccinated should either not get healthcare at all or go to the back of the line and you make the point what are they going to say about the fact now they should get priority? >> the level of contradiction in this policy and for those people who have advocated it is truly breathtaking. half of the pundits saying you should let unvaccinated people die or put them at the end of the line and new york saying...

Their policies are discriminatory. studies show that white women are the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action, a fact you rarely hear about on the practice. not only because it would make it harder to get into top schools, but those minority students who are admitted will find smaller communities of peers with similar backgrounds to support them and help them succeed. a gallup poll just last year showed 62% of americans support affirmative action programs for minority groups. the highest in 20 years, over 20 years, so you might wonder why, with all of these problems facing our country,...

Of proof is on the intervention to show that the benefits outweigh the harms. and at this moment, as natalie elegantly said, when we of course try to balance risks and benefits, and as omicron is slowly retreating, in various parts of the country, in a patchwork fashion, and as vaccines are widely available to anyone who wants it over age five, and as kids, we know, after 22 months of accumulated data, kids face the lowest risk in general for severe consequences from covid-19, we really can't wait any longer to think about mask-optional policies, when we have a mental health crisis in this cou...