ITEM 1: RTTNews reported, "A report released by the Commerce Department on Friday showed personal income in the U.S. increased by less than expected in the month of December.

"The Commerce Department said personal income rose by 0.3 percent in December after climbing by an upwardly revised 0.5 percent in November.

"Economists had expected personal income to advance by 0.5 percent compared to the 0.4 percent increase originally reported for the previous month."

Incomes are not keeping pace with inflation.

Biden ended 40 years of prosperity by undoing everything Trump did.

Chairman Xi smiles.

ITEM 5: WND reported, "Researchers at Johns Hopkins University conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of thousands of studies to determine whether or not there is empirical evidence to support the belief that lockdowns reduce COVID-19 mortality.

"They concluded that such policies are ill-founded and should be rejected."

The researchers said, "While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument."

The lockdowns were not about stopping the virus.

The lockdowns were about stopping Trump's re-election