reducing pollution caused by methane. house members return for legislative work tuesday. watch live coverage on the senate on c-span2, the house on c-span. both are online and on the c-span radio app. @cspanwj. it's not just the return to normal in temples weekend or family activities. in terms of the economy. your job. are you back at work? is your office or place of work planning to reopen or fully reopen? maybe they never closed. we would be interested to hear your experience and what you may anticipate in the weeks and months ahead as things open up in the economy. the associated press polled americans and their thoughts on the pandemic. their summation the headline many americans resuming previrus activities. they write that many americans are relaxing precautions taken during the covid-19 pandemic.

and resuming everyday activities. even as some worry that coronavirus related restrictions were hastily lifted. the poll is from the associated press and nrc center republic affairs research. the majority of americans regularly doing so before the pandemic say they returning toe bars and restaurants. traveling, and attending events such as of movies or sports. in this they say 21% are very or extremely worried about a covid infection in their inner circles. and the lowest level since the pandemic began only 25% are hardly concerned that the lifted restriction also lead to additional people being infected in their community. they also say in this survey from the associated press that just 34% of americans think restrictions in their area have been lifted too quickly. and that while somewhat fewer, 27% say that they were not lifted quickly enough. about four in 10 rate the pace of reopening as about right.

that's the associated press. we'll check back with that poll and other results from that poll as well. are you resuming your pre pandemic activities? cnn, one of their economic pieces yesterday said -- had this headline, the u.s. economy is never going back to normal. they write in this piece that the u.s. economy has come a long way since last year's devastating down turn. but a return to norm almay not be possible. the back to normal index created by cnn business and moody's analytics stands at 93% as of june 18. a new pandemic era high. the index is prized of 37 national and seven state level indicators that track metrics such as consumer credit, unemployment claims, job postings, domestic he air travel. the latest reading write cnn that america is inching closer to normalcy but the last mile will be tough.

various states have done away with restrictions, life as it used to be hasn't demrifully resumed. 202-748-8000. if you are under 35. 2302-748-811-8001. 35 and 60. over 60, 202-748-8002. if you had covid or diagnosed with covid 202-748-8003. not just your personal life and your economy and what your tate is doing. if they lifted all restrictions or if some are still in place. be interested in hearing that. one of those states earlie spikes in the pandemic, washington state, from the "seattle times." the headline says washington is tantalizingly close to a near return to normal but covid risks are staying higher in some

areas. washington is going to fully reopen soon. not today, probably not tomorrow. but soon. end of the month at the latest. quote, we are on the 2-yard line. the governor said last tuesday, pleading with state residents to hold out just a little longer before the state drops its remaining covid-19 restrictions. to suss out the metaphor the goal line is 70% of washington residents, 16 and older, receiving at least one vaccine dose. washington according to the department of health has given shots to 67.8% of those residents. two yards or 2.2% of residents or fewer than 135,000 people to go. the "seattle times" writes in recent weeks the state has been averaging about 10,000 2015,000 first -- to 10,000 first doses per day according to the state department of health. from the "seattle times." your experience. are you resumeling your prepandemic activities? alan's in brooklyn first up. good morning, alan.

go ahead. caller: good morning. thank you. so many aspects of this -- relationship with elderly mother. young grandson. synagogue activities. i had been near retirement before the pandemic hit in solo law practice in brooklyn. the necessity for people to basically digital remote operators to continue working during the pandemic forced me to be pretty much inactive and paying to keep the office rent and salary and phone up as a pilot light hoping things get back to normal. i had no idea it was going to drag on so long that basically i paid out of pocket to keep the office open because it's a small office. we were not able to continue operating as usual remotely. i still don't know at this point whether i'm going to be trying to get back up to speed before actually formally retiring.

everything is at a lower level activity now. i'm one of the few people in my office building who is coming in in person. larger offices may be continuing to operate. but there are people at home. but i'm not set up for digital operation. although, i, my wife, son, and daughter-in-law have all been vaccinated, we are afraid of giving a 3-year-old grandson exposure to one of the variants by getting indoors with them. so we have continued to limit our activities with our grandson very rare at all to outdoor until we know these variant exposures are not a problem. and then our synagogue has been trying the best to be responsible, but we are in a period now where governor cuomo's directives give people the impression they can be almost at normal operation indoors. they still give people instructions to be careful and about half of them still wear

masks. and they are still an area where people want to wear masks can sit separately. for many the return to normal is happening too rapidly and some people are being a little reckless about getting close together. host: how have you done financially in terms of your business? caller: basically i'm paying to keep the office open this past year because there have been no trials. there's been very little in the way of in-person depositions. as a small office we were never set up to operate remotely. we were basically dormant for most of the year. until spring when all of our vaccinations allowed us to go back in and try to operate out of the office. but basically it's out of pock tote keep the place running until we could start getting up to the point where revenues are coming back in. host: thanks for your comments this morning. we'll show you the headline later. this is the front page of the "new york times" this morning.

new york trails the rest of the u.s. in virus rebound. economic scars linger. we'll get back to that in a moment. carolyn, calling in, vincent, ohio. hi, good morning. caller: good morning. i would say i am back to normal. i'm not wearing a mask. but i will say i'm on the border of west virginia and ohio and i notice many people are still wearing masks. i will say they are wearing masks more than they ever did during the past year and some odd months. i was beginning to wonder if maybe i should wear my mask because i know the fully vaccinated amount for the two counties, one in west virginia and one here in ohio, is pretty

low. i'm fully vaccinated, but i see all these people when i'm out and about wearing a mask and it's more than what it was. host: what do you think is driving that? additional mask wearing that you are seeing? caller: well, i'm wondering -- was listening intently to the gentleman that was just on and he had very good reasons. he said about grandchildren and on and on. that can't get the vaccine. and maybe that's what's up with them, too. they are concerned about the young ones that can't get the vaccine that are under 12. i'm just thinking it's an older community, too. and they are trying to protect themselves. yeah, i was beginning to think that maybe i should go back to wear my mask. i don't want to, but with the low amount of fully vaccinated

and what the gentleman was saying before my call, i'm beginning to wonder if maybe i should be more cautious, too. host: appreciate your call this morning from ohio. we go to linda in mississippi. you were diagnosed with covid. hope everything's ok now. caller: oh, yeah. good morning. i've had the virus at my age with my issues i'm blessed. me and my husband both vaccinated and the children. but it's still -- we still wear our masks even when we went back into church. but we still sit separately. we still doing the same we did before we were vaccinated because i live in mississippi.

and mississippi percentage is just 28%. even though there's a chance of my contact, might get sick, i'm not taking a chance anymore because there are reckless people out there. the virus cares nothing about your religion, your political affiliation, your race, your job, or whatever. people need to get vaccinated and get us to a high percentage of vaccinated america or we are going to have another wave. host: even wearing your mask there, linda, do you feel comfortable around people again? particularly family. are you really close friends, are you comfortable being back together with them again? caller: only with the ones that i know is vaccinated. the ones i don't know is

vaccinated i still keep my distance from because they are careless. my family, most my family is vaccinated. but there are many that are not. so i just do what i did before for my safety and for other people around me. i just wear my mask, wash my hands, and still disfans myself from those -- distance myself from those that i don't know. host: our opening question this first hour are you resuming your pre3ec9 activities. -- prepandemic activities. 202-748-8000, under the age of 35. 202-748-8001 under the age of 60. and if you are diagnosed with covid, call 202-748-8003.

the both your personal experiences, what your state is doing, and what it's like with your place of employment and whether that's returning to normal any time soon. we'll get back to more of your calls and comments momentarily. we are joined next by susan crabtree who is white house national political correspondent for real clear politics. good morning, susan. guest: good morning. host: been a busy time for the president overseas last week returning midweek. this coming week a busy week domestically. at least certainly on the thing that he's interested in, the infrastructure proposals in congress and the coat. the preliminary vote in the senate on tuesday. on voting rights. tell us more about his week ahead. guest: back to basics at the white house. the more basic, less glamorous job of legislating. when lawmakers left town last week there was significant progress being made, bipartisan

progress being made on three different things. infrastructure, as you mentioned voting rights, and the police reform bill. as you look ahead to the week, we have a meeting today with the white house, president biden is meeting with financial regulators. we don't know too much about this meeting other than it will focus on regulatory priorities, including climate related financial risk and agency actions. then on wednesday there is an interesting meeting that the president will be doing on crime prevention. there's been a lot of spikes in crime around the country anti-president has avoided this so far. it's been a republican talking point that he is now going to address this and have a meeting with stakeholders on wednesday. thursday, he'll be traveling to north carolina to promote vaccinations. and on friday, he will deliver remarks on pride month. and also meet with the president of afghanistan about the withdrawal. as you mentioned the big action

is going to be taking place on capitol hill this week. we have a lot of response we are waiting for from the white house on this new bipartisan infrastructure bill that this group of 21 lawmakers have backed. the lead republican, senator portman, has been talking this up over the sunday talk shows over the weekend. there is disagreement, as you know, on the -- how to pay for it. senator bernie sanders the budget committee chairman has his own $6 trillion proposal which is far more expansive. he was somewhat opened to the idea of the bipartisan proposal, which was much more scaled down at $1 trillion, but he said he didn't agree with the republican proposal to increase gas taxes and index for inflation or have an additional tax on clean energy vehicles. he didn't like that. so they are at a crossroads

again on the infrastructure bill when it comes to paying for it. host: the president reviewing that bill. will we hear from him today or tomorrow on that bill? guest: we are expected to hear from him today on that bill. this afternoon we are waiting that response. there's also we are going to get hints of that at the noon -- noon press briefing with general psaki. host: what about the procedural vote in the senate tomorrow. a tweet this morning from vm harris, she's headed to pittsburgh and tweets about that on child tax credit awareness day. susan, the president has designated kamala harris, the vice president, as the point person on voting rights. do we expect her to play some sort of role or be in the senate as that procedural vote happens tomorrow and days to come on voting rights? guest: well, that's a really good question. she is the point person on that and border security. and border crisis.

i don't think you can call it anything else but that right now. we haven't seen her very much on the voting rights initiative. you have civil rights leaders saying they want progress on this. you don't have any type of bipartisan agreement on this. you have joe manchin coming out saying he's going to support this scaled down voting rights bill that would have basically unvail election day holiday and 15 days ahead of time for some voting. provide more absentee ballots for people who need them. it's much more scaled back than what the democrats really want. we haven't heard very much from kamala harris on this. i think people on the hill are waiting her response. this is not going anywhere in the senate in terms of republican support. even senator rob portman yesterday senate talk shows he was saying he just doesn't believe fundamentally he could

support what he called a federal takeover election because the constitution, he said, provides that right to run their own elections to the states. host: we'll play some of that audio from senator poreman in our program later. let me ask you about the president's 70% goal for july 4. the first lady will tout vaccinations in nashville and other places. you entionmed the president getting to north carolina later in the week to do that very same thing. how important of a goal is this for the administration? guest: they are scaling it back a little bit because it's not going to reach the 70% he wanted to by july 4. they are not near that goal. they are inching closer. they have revised it they want 300 million vaccines by july 4. the first 150 days. that's why they are shooting for that. this is one of the few pandemic

goals the president hasn't met. he's scaled that back but also upping his selling it to the american people with a trip to north carolina i believe on thursday. host: susan crabtree is national political correspondent, white house and national political correspondent for real clear politics. read her reporting at realclearpolitics.com. thanks for being with us this morning. our opening question for you this morning. are you resuming your prepandemic activities. interested in your both permanent life and what are you doing and your job and economic situation. 202-748-8000 the line to call if you are under the age of 35. 202-748-8001 between 35 and 60. and if you are over the age of 60. 202-748-8002. the redline of this piece earlier this morning, from "the new york times" in terms of where that state is.

their headline, new york trails the rest of the u.s. virus rebound. economic scars linger. as the national economy recovers from the pandemic and begins to take off. new york city is lagging with changing patterns at work and travel threatening the engines that have long powered its jobs and prosperity. new york has endured deeper job losses as a share of the work force than any other big american city. other country has remained gande 2/3 of the positions it lost. new york has recouped fewer than half leaving a deficit of more than 500,000 jobs. restaurants and bars are filling up again. scars are everywhere. boarded up storefronts and for lease signs dot many neighbor b neighborhoods. empty sidewalks in midtown manhattan make it feel like a weekend in midweek. subway rider ship on the week days is less than half two years ago. it stems largely from the heavy relines on office workers,

business travelers, and service businesses catering to all of them. all eyes on september when many plan to bring workers to the office and broadway reopens. even then the rebound will only be partial. from "the new york times." get back to your calls. louise in oklahoma city. thanks for waiting, louise. go ahead with your comment. caller: yes. i live in a senior citizen apartment complex. and there's 80 apartments here. and everybody was doing rather well. a good percentage of not having it. it's getting worse again. and not me personally but all around me. next door, across the hall. everybody's just about had it. i don't get out at all.

i've got a friend that does. and she has had both her shots. i have, too, but i'm not going to get out there. she gets my mail for me. so i don't have to do anything if i don't want to get out. host: your view, louise, it's still not safe for you to go out. caller: no. we've got about -- i heard we've got two new cases here. and i heard from another friend there's five. host: to bismarck, north dakota, john. caller: yes. good morning. thank you for c-span. north dakota had some very limited restrictions back in march, april and may of 20.

we didn't really -- we really didn't do anything with restrictions here in north dakota. we did much like south dakota. south dakota was 100% open all the time. they didn't do any restrictions with businesses or masks or anything. and north dakota was very close to that. we did end our mask restrictions in march of this year. business is booming. back to normal. we've got jobs, jobs, jobs. if anybody needs a job, good-paying jobs, north dakota is the place to go. it's beautiful this time of year. we are looking forward to prosperity ahead. host: this is ray, ithaca, new york. hi. caller: good morning. i haven't resumed no activity. i'm still very scared. new york state's been hit very

hard by this. it seemed like one day the lady from the c.d.c. said i wouldn't send my own son to summer camp. the very next day, literally the very next day, you don't have to wear a mask anywhere. anything. i don't trust it. i think they are pushing to reopen. i'm very scared. host: lines divided by age. if you are under the age of 35. 202-748-8000. between 35 and 60, 202-748-8001. and over the age of 60, 202-748-8002. are you resuming your prepandemic activities? headline from the "wall street journal" says, forget going back to the office. people are just quitting instead they write in this piece that several factors are driving the job turnover. many people are spurning a return to business as usual. preferring the flexibility of remote work or reluctant to be in an office before the virus is

vanquished. others are burned out from extra pandemic work loads and stress. some are looking for higher pay to make up a spouse's job loss or use the past year to reconsider their career path. and shift gears. that's from the "wall street journal." in seattle, trish on the over 60 line. hello, welcome. caller: hey, good morning, everybody. just three quick points. i retired earlier than i planned. as a nurse case manager, taking calls from sick people all the time was just absolutely exhausting hearing all this really, really sad stories where people were isolated, couldn't get to their doctors, etc. the second point is, yes, because now i'm retired i'm really looking forward to getting out and doing things.

and the third point, with that being said, i have trepidation about going out a lot because of all the shootings and really benign places. the grocery store, the whatever. so that's what's on my mind. host: appreciate that. this is from "politico" this morning. somebody mentioned hearing from the c.d.c. director. this is "politico's" story this morning. the headline is america is ready for -- to return to normal. biden's c.d.c. she isn't sure. the newly installed director of the center for disease control and spreengs had one big request for agency employees at an all hands meeting in march. don't talk to the press without permission. her remarks caught many c.d.c. scientists and officials off guard. her boss, president biden, had campaigned on a promise to take control of the pandemic by letting science lead. a pledge that hinged almost entirely on allowing the

nation's top health experts, including those at the c.d.c., to speak publicly. "politico" writes the c.d.c.'s director's request seemed to contradict what the biden administration was trying to achieve. revitalizing the federal government's covid-19 response by spotlighting federal scientist that is former president trump had cast aside. it was very clear that walensky did not want anyone talking to reporters at the time. a senior, c.d.c. official told "politico" she wants to control the narrative as much as possible. "politico" writes that the anecdote highlights the extent to which the c.d.c. and its director have struggled to send a clear and unified message on public health measures to fight covid-19. their track record so far has been mixed, including an abrupt reversal on -- abrupt reversal on masked rules on vaccinated adults after a public outcry. brenda in ohio. good morning. caller: hello. i have grandchildren that haven't had the shot.

and i had a granddaughter start summer school because of her grades. she raised flags all year with this remote learning. she was a straight a student before. so we had trouble with that. but they stopped the restrictions in our schools and my granddaughter was going to summer school with no mask, all these kids going on field trips and school buses, sitting next to each other. you don't know if the parents have had the shot. all these kids are just put into a petrie petrie dish. you hope they don't get the covid. this is political when it should be not even political. it's a health thing. at first the kids were thought, oh, they can't get t they have a low rate of getting it. we protected our elderly.

now we don't care about the kids. and i don't know what i'm going to do next year when school opens because i still have grandkids that haven't had the shot and the restrictions are gone. i just can't understand how our nation can just throw the kids under the bus when we were trying to save the rest of us. host: i think, brenda, you may know better being a grandmother, that the age now for kids, the lowest age is age 12, correct, for kids to get the vaccine. caller: right. i'm just waiting and praying for the time that our kids can get it because we still live in a bubble. i have had the shot. my husband. i have had different family members. but we still have family members that are young that haven't. your first job as a human you marry, have children, and your

job becomes not just protecting your spouse but your children. and now as you get older it's your grandchildren. there is a crazy line. it's not protect your children anymore. let's open up and have jobs. i think people should work. but i mean i think your first job in life is to protect your family. host: for the family members, the grown family members you have that have not been vaccinated, generally, what's their reason? caller: their reason, i hate to say it, it's political. i have a family on both sides of this political hoopla and the ones that are democrat they have been vaccinated. the ones that are republican, they go on the internet and believe everything off that and don't even watch the news on any station. and it's political.

it's sad and scary. i stay away from the ones that aren't -- had their shot because my first job is protect my grandkids. host: appreciate your call this morning. 202-748-8000 the line for those of you under age of 35. over 35, 35 to 60. 202-748-8001. and over 60, 202-748-8002. and again if you've had covid, diagnosed with covid, it's 202-748-8003. a couple comments on twitter. this one says went to the movies with a friend yesterday here in new york city. amc still has retirements but relaxed mandates. i still prefer to wear a mask. i feel things have gotten too comfortable and fear another major spike. facebook says, fully took advice of the best scientists in the world as i have done my whole life, got the shots. lance says no not enough people

have been vaccinated. dean says never miss add day of work on a federal lake. both sales and rentals all the way lockdown never have wedown more busy. fernando in san bernardino, california. good morning. caller: good morning. the question of if i'm going to resume my activities prepandemic, i will not, sadly. and that's not due to -- actually it's due to the fact that i'm trying to protect my family. i know that there's a lot of good people in this country who have gotten their shot. they are ready to protect not only their community but their fellow workers. essential workers especially. but it's not the time for people . personally i have lost my father, not from covid, but from

other complications. during the covid outbreak, especially in february, it was very tough to be in the hospital with him during his last moments. and i don't see many -- any safe place, really, especially during this time of the pandemic, i have seen in the news, i'm 20, just for the viewers who are listening. i have seen people, especially some of my friends, who go out, watch movies, or at the beach, who go to mexico, gone to canada gone to florida and seen the festivals. for me it's something as a thing, i care about my community. i care about my health. but i want to do what i want to do first. and for me that's more of something that really doesn't

fit with me in the slightest. i have my mother. i have two nieces. i have my sister. my brother-in-law. their health comes first. in my community it's easy to get infected by covid-19. it's easy to get infected once and spread it to other people without knowing. i want to visit my aunts. my cousins who live especially close bye. -- close by. but it's more of a hassle to live with covid than to protect yourself and your family. host: what's going to be a sign for you that things have cleared up? that you can resume some of those prepandemic activities? caller: one of those things would be going back to my religious meetings with my congregation. host: that they open back up those meetings. caller: they have not. we are doing it through zoom.

especially hard for the older folks. especially my congregation not seeing them. i'm blessed to be able to use zoom. to see them at least during this time. but until that happens, until we are able to meet each other it feeling faith, i think that's the moment when i will feel comfortable resuming my prepandemic activities. i feel that's going to happen maybe in a year. host: thanks for your call this morning. as he often does, author brooks with a unique perfect spect. a once in a lifetime chance to start over. here's just a bit of what he writes. he says, we all yearn for the end of human suffering brought toy buy the pandemic. many if not most of us look forward to the end of the constraints and inconveniences it has imposed. deep inside there are probably a

few things you dread about going back to normal life. each of us if we are brutally honest could make a list of the activities and relationships that we didn't like in prepandemic times. but that we accepted through self-deception, shear inertia, and the pressure to go along and get along. a bit of what author brook -- arthur brooks is thinking and writing. we hear from dennis next. hello. caller: hello. this is dennis. what the lady in ohio was saying. she's worried about her grandkids getting no shots. i never heard any of the kids getting sick. the older people were getting sick. i don't know when the american people wake up and realize that

this is all just propaganda bull crap from the government just trying to get you to get shots. like 50 years ago, a whole bunch of us got shots. we never had colon cancer before. now we got colon cancer. what's this shot going to do to people years down the road. host: dennis, you think there was a correlation -- what were your shots 50 years ago? polio vaccine? caller: yeah. everybody had holes in their arms. them circles in there. host: you think that led to colon cancer? caller: who knows. you never know. host: to dianne in ann arbor, michigan. welcome. caller: yes. hello. i'm calling about the masks,

using them. you have to protect yourself. you have to do what makes you feel comfortable. if you don't feel comfortable going in a public setting where you don't know people, by all means wear the mask. when you are with family members you know are immunized then take it off and enjoy time with your close friends and family that you know are safe. it's as simple as that. we just have to protect ourselves. this idea of people being pushed to believe -- if you believe -- support trump you don't wear a mask. the churches say if you have enough faith in jesus you don't need the covid shot. and also add our local church here, not mine, one in our community, was saying that. actually it was causing divisions in the families in that church because if you got

the shot then you had less faith. that's what this is all coming to. and you just have to decide for yourself. i'll also add in that church they got 20 cases of covid. people are -- you're right are being pushed in a corner. it's not right. that we do that, that you are less of a family or whoever, supporter, that getting the shot. it's political divisiveness that's just everywhere. also, could i just -- it's about the unemployment deal. i just spoke to a friend and they said, they are just sitting back and getting unemployment. think of it from a mother's perspective especially if she's a single parent. if she goes back to work, number one, she's exposing bringing something back to her family. if she can find daycare.

she's making more than she would have otherwise? corporations have to step up. they have to pay people what they are worth. small businesses, i think, it would be great if our -- if the government, maybe subdiced them so everybody made $15 an hour. this idea of if they can't -- if they give them the support, it goes directly back in the economy. it just makes sense. host: another story here complicating the employment situation. showing how complicated it is in the country. millions are just quitting their jobs as the headline, the business section of "new york times." at some point earlier this year justin hoffman concluded he was being underpaid. the marketing director of an orthopedic practice in ohio was making $42,000 a year. about $13,000 less by his count than people were making in similar jobs elsewhere. but when asked for -- asked for a raise in march he was given

only a small bum national park pay. he said that was the straw that broke the camel's back. after careful thinking mr. hoffman, 28, did what he longed to do. he quit, his last day was june 4. he's among millions of workers who have voluntarily left their jobs recently. one of the most striking elements of the newly blazing hot job market. nearly four million people quit their jobs in april. the most on record. pushing the rate to 2.7% of those employed. the rate was particularly high in the leisure and hospitality industry where competition for workers has been especially fierce. but the number of those quitting registered across the board. that's from n.y. times.com. this morning, are you resoming your prepandemic activities. 202-748-8000 is the line to call if you under the age of 35. between the ages of 35 and 60, 202-748-8001. and over the age of 60, 202-748-8002.

on this topic on covid-19 we have a hearing coming up today on c-span2 this morning at 10 a.m. eastern. public health exspeerts will be talking about some of the lessons learned on the rollout of the covid-19 vaccines. from the center for strategic and international studies. 10 a.m. eastern on our companion network c-span2. let's go to richard in pennsylvania. good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. i'm 75 years old. i didn't have the shot. and, sir, it's not for any political purposes. that is absolutely nothing to do with it. it's just a personal decision. i don't think i'm going to get covid. i think i have a real good immune system. i have never had a flu shot in my life. i have never had the flu. so that's the basis for my

decision. it has nothing to do with politics. maybe it does for some people, but not for me. host: how about your activities. you are affected by what's done in pennsylvania in terms of the closures there. are things opening up there in pennsylvania in your area? caller: they are. they are, sir. the only restrictions that i put on my activity was the restrictions that were imposed on us by businesses not operating. some closed. some were only takeouts. we had a lot of that where you could only go to their drive through. that's not from talking to the business owners or operators. it's not because they are afraid of covid now. they can't get the help. so they have to confine themselves to just one aspect of their business and they focused on takeouts.

other than that -- even at the height of covid i went out. i just did everything i ordinarily do. host: thank you for that. kathleen, next up in bloomfield hills, michigan. you are on the air. go ahead. caller: yes. i was watching your show. as far as being vaccinated i have yet to be vaccinated. but it's a personal choice. i wanted the johnson & johnson. and -- i'm in michigan. and we are unable to get the johnson & johnson. it's moderna or the pfizer. and i like the choice of johnson & johnson because it was only one shot. but the pandemic when it came out and all the vaccines were

coming out and they were talking about two-step process. in lieu of the pandemic i knew that was going to turn to something really complicated to where percentage of people would get the shot. but then there would be a quagmire or something to where they would be unable to get the second dose. so that's the reason i wear a mask. i have always worn a mask. i agree to some extent to the gentleman that was just on. but this is a recovery of a pandemic. and we never experienced this. and it's something that's definitely very serious. and it's something we cannot take lightly. and cannot rush anything, either. i can see all the concerns. i'm hearing people say. you have to have common sense and if you listen to what the

scientists said, just pay attention. i guess that's all. host: let's hear from cliff in essex, maryland. hi. caller: good morning. i was watching one america news and there's a government study came out of the u.k. with a company called vaer, they are vaccine researchers. they put out a statement saying these vaccines are unsafe for use in human beings. i see these vaccines being pushed everywhere. they are pushing on kids. they are pushing on people. in rest homes. they are pushing this vaccine like if you don't get this vaccine you are going to die. ok. the fact is if you get this vaccine you might die. a lot of people have died from this vaccine. host: not from the vaccine

itself. very, very small amount of people have died from the covid vaccine itself. caller: there have been more people that died and had adverse reactions than all the other vaccines combined to date. host: cliff, are you not yourself getting vaccinated? caller: no. aim not going to get vaccinated. host: typically do you get a flu shot or other vaccinations in the past? caller: i have had i think three vaccinations in my life. one for smallpox. one for polio. when i was a kid. and had one shot when i went overseas. that was the only vaccine igs -- vaccinations. host: the reason you don't want to get vaccination this time is because of this report you read? caller: no. never going to get a vaccine. host: ok. caller: this report came out verified what i have been thinking. host: where did you read this report? caller: this whole pandemic has

been a global sigh op by china -- syop by china to repress all the economies in the world except theirs. host: more of your calls coming out of play this. and talking about what's ahead. scott wong joining us. from his publication the hill, their headline this morning. this week senate set for voting rights night on the senate a key vote set to comp on tuesday in the u.s. senate. senator lindsey graham from south carolina was on fox news sunday yesterday and asked about that pending vote. here's what he said in response to chris wallace. >> let me move on to another area because senator schumer, the senate democratic leader, is going to bring up a voting rights bill this week. the centrist, moderate always -- maybe the most powerful man in the senate joe manchin will offer his stripped down version of that bill this week. i want to put up the main elements of the manchin proposal.

make election day a holiday. mandate at least 15 days of early voting. ban partisan gerrymandering and use computer models. require a voter i.d. senator manchin took out a lot of the basic senate plans, s 1, the for the people act, like public financing of congressional elections. can you go along with the manchin stripped down version? if not, why not? >> i like joe manchin a lot. we had the largest turnout in the history of the united states. and states are in charge of voting in america. i don't like the idea of taking the power to redistrict away from state legislators. you are having people move from blue stays to red states under this proposal. you would have a commission redraw the new districts. don't like that. i want states where people moving to have control over how to allocate new congressional seats. as much as i like joe manchin, the answer would be no.

in my view, s.r. 1 is the biggest power grab in the history of the country. if mandates ballot harvesting, no voter, i.d., it does away with the states being able to redistrict when you have population shifts. it's just a bad idea. and it's a problem that most republicans are not going to sign -- they are trying to fix a problem most republicans have a different view of. host: more of your calls and comments on question. opening question, are you resuming your prepandemic activities. 202-748-8000 if you are under the age of 35. 202-748-8001 if you are between 35 and 60. and 202-748-8002 if you are over the age of 60. on facebook, on twitter some reaction on social media. facebook post here from julius who says no, such activities will probably take time getting back to the level of normalcy. if ever. assessing inflation in the months and years ahead will dictate if activity also resume

the normal course. susan says that almost, i retired just before we heard of covid. we sold our home and bought another very carefully with precaucuses last year. we were all ok. but an elderly extended family member died of it and another middle-aged member had a mild case. we restricted our lifers a lot then. we have to be back to church with masks. we took a train trip with masks. we shop when we want and do what we want. we do have smaller grandchildren so they wear masks. their parents bring them virtually nowhere indoors. derek says i'm more active than last year but nowhere near close to prepandemic activities, especially with the delta strain on the rise. back to calls, michael beverley hills, california. hi. caller: hi. i just wanted to say this. because of my long street in beverley hills, california, 46

people have died, 19 have died because of blood clots. i have -- i left nine months ago to go back to florida to stay with my cousins. we see what's going to happen. i personally feel that the vaccine is not safe. i went to harvard medical school. all my friends agree that there's problems down the line with it. especially with the increase in pancreatic cancer and brain tumors. so i'm very leery of if we'll ever get back to normal for at least four years. thank you. host: ohio, joe. hello. caller: hi. i just like to let you know i had the pfizer vaccine. i have had both of them. and i noticed after a week of

have a that i lost like 20% to 30% of my energy. and i'd like to know if anyone out there has had any effects on them that way after they took it. so -- i have never gotten my energy back that i had. host: still down you think 20% 25%. caller: yes. and the reason i noticed it is because when i would do an exercise on my elliptical i was doing about a mile in eight minutes. and now it takes me 12 minutes to do a mile. host: what's your doctor say about it? caller: he said that it should have no effect on me. due to that's just some kind of -- some kind of protein in your system. but i have yet to be able to get down to eight minutes again.

host: reporting on the economy this morning, heather long writing in "the washington post." her piece is headlined, the economy isn't going back to february 2020. fundamental shifts have occurred. the u.s. economy is emerge interesting the coronavirus pandemic with considerable speed, but marketedly transformed as business and consumers struggle to adapt a new landscape -- to a new landscape with higher prices, few he workers, new innovation, and lange ever inconveniences. in late february, 2020 the unemployment rate was 3.5%. inflation was tame. wages were rising, and americans companies were attempting to recover from a multiyear trade war. the pandemic disrupted everything, she writes. damaging some parts of the economy much more than others. but a mass vaccination efforts and virus' steady retreat this year have allowed many businesses and communities to reopen. what americans are encountering, though, is almost unrecognizeable from just 16 months ago. prices are up. housing is scarce. it takes months longer than

normal to get furniture. appliances and numerous parts delivered. there is great dislocation between millions of unemployed workers and millions of vacant jobs. helen in south carolina. good morning to you. caller: good morning. this is not a vaccine. it is an mrna gene altering protein, spike protein producing agent that is being administered to a great deal of the world's population. people will be altered by this. spike proteins will be selecting in their bodily organs. it will change them. it will affect them. it will adversely affect their health. it is an extremely dangerous thing to ingest. certainly in children. nobody should take it. everybody should when they ingest any medicine, over the counter or otherwise, you have to weigh the risks against the risk of getting a disease. this actual disease, covid, had

a 99% rate of recovery. so pretty much nobody was going to die from it. host: you, yourself, are not getting the vaccine. have you changed your -- have you resumed any prepandemic activities? presumed your normal -- caller: i never changed any of my activities. i'm healthy 65-year-old woman who is extremely active. i traveled. i shopped. i did -- i eight out. -- i ate out. didn't change anything. nothing happened. people that have no disease. i'm certainly not going to take medicine for a disease i do not have. and i would hope that everybody listening to me will do more research. this is not a vaccine. and the vaer site, that is a site by the c.d.c. that tracks adverse reactions, all kind of

adverse reactions to any kind of vaccine. host: one of the downsides of the recovery the post pandemic is the spike in crime, president biden set to address that this week. this is froma hoo news, their headline, downtown chicago emerges from pandemic hobbled by a crime wave. they write businesses in downtown chicago that survived the pandemic related economic slump and two spasms of looting last sirm should be he static with monday's reopening of america's third largest city. many are battling a new hardship. a surge in crime keeping customers and their money away. in did he ever, this is benjamin next up. hello. caller: howdy. thanks for having me on. i kind of want to spend the entire time just talking about the last lady was very on point on the spike proteins and everything else. whether i'm going to go and resume my prepandemic routine.

the answer to that is kind of. because prepandemic i was starting to ramp up and figuring out how i could invest in something that might create business opportunity for more than just me. that's what i was looking to do. although the pandemic really kind of shuffled me around and made me rethink what i was doing and where i was getting funding source at all, i think i'm pretty well positioned now. i think a lot of people might be, too, to say, hey, what can we do to rebuild things? that's where i'm at. i'm not going to go back prepandemic. i'm thinking about -- host: without giving away your investment strategy, where do you see promise investments in the economy these days? caller: social businesses. i see a lot of potential there. what is innovation? you have to open your eyes to whatever is around you. look at what you can understand

and look for understand, and look for whatever else you can apply that knowledge to. host: >> coming about 1:00 p.m. eastern, jen psaki will be answering reporters' questions about issues facing the biden administration.

watch that live starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern. c-span's "landmark cases" explores the stories unconstitutional drama behind significant supreme court decisions. sunday at 9:45 p.m. eastern, watch gideon v. wainwright, where clements gideon was denied a court-appointed lawyer. the supreme court ruled that under the sixth amendment, the accused must be provided a lawyer if they can't afford one, or the opportunity to defend themselves. watch "landmark cases" sunday night at 9:45 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org [indiscernible] , or listen on the c-span radio app. and with us here on washington journal is senior staff writer scott wong with the hill. great to have you with us. guest: great to be with you. host: it will be a busy week for you and your colleagues ahead.