Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is expected to be traded for a player to be named later.

I'm Jonathan Lemire on this Friday, July 30th. We've got a lot going on. Let's get started.

Faced with a surging number of coronavirus cases, President Biden has announced sweeping new requirements for millions of federal workers.

Under the new policy, federal government employees and members of

the military will have to sign forms acknowledging that they've been vaccinated, or else they'll have

to comply with new rules for masking, weekly testing, social distancing, and more. The president is also

urging state and local governments to offer $100 to anyone willing to get the shot voluntarily.

Speaking from the East Room yesterday, Biden delivered a sharp rebuke to those who are still

unvaccinated and emphasized that the fight is still far from over.

Nearly all of the cases, hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 today are from unvaccinated people.

Last month, the study showed that over 99% of COVID-19 deaths have been among the unvaccinated.

99%.

This is American tragedy.

People are dying and will die who don't have to die. If you're out there

unvaccinated, you don't have to die. Right now, too many people are dying, are watching someone

they love dying and saying, if I just got vaccinated. America is divided between the

majority of eligible people who are vaccinated and those who are not. And I understand that many

of you in the majority are frustrated with the consequences of the failure of the minority to get vaccinated.

But I want you to know I'm going to continue to everything I can to encourage the unvaccinated to get vaccinated.

I know people talk about freedom, but I learned growing up in school and my parents, with freedom comes responsibility.

Your decision to be unvaccinated impacts someone else.

Unvaccinated people spread the virus.

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