the answer here. those are important. what is? we saw the last white house press briefing from dr. fauci. he said get your booster. i had the head of the cdc on my program, get your booster. we are lagging horribly in that. the numbers are dismal. if not that, what else can we do? chris, the shots that were there from the airports and from the shopping malls show you people are not wearing masks. masks are very effective, especially if you have an n95 or kn95 mask. during the holiday season, for the last three years, we have seen big upticks. we are seeing a rise already of covid cases, hospitalizations, test positivity rate. we are getting on the early side of this. that thanksgiving sunday travel
going to be a very, very bad situation with a lot of people without masks spreading covid. people might not die from this covid, because it does seem to be less severe, either because of infection or because of vaccines or just because the virus has changed. but that doesn t mean getting covid is going to be not without its consequences. it can lay you up, as you noted. there s rsv out there and flu as well. it could give you long covid, which would be dreadful, i think, for many people. so i suggest wear a mask. i wear a mask when traveling. i m here in los angeles with my brother s family for thanksgiving. we wore a mask the whole time. i would also say to people, you have to protect yourself. when i teach, i have my students wear a mask. that s probably at the moment the best thing you can do. are you eating indoors at