refusing to be vaccinated? >> you know, i think that my mother was a great pro american. she had incredible faith in america. she always thought that america had all the answers. she used to quarrel with my dad who was a little more skeptical. this would break her heart. to see the united states, not to be 9 shining example in the world, saying this is how you get out of the pandemic, we did it. we are going to help you with know how, with technology. instead, we're floundering. we're going to go back. we're going backwards, and we're going to go -- it's going to get worse because the delta variant is twice as transmissible. you know, in a sense, we managed to get people vaccinated, assuming a certain pace of transmission. well, it's double, and we need