essential worker that's allowed to stay on the job. >> do you think city officials are being irresponsible? >> no, look. at this point it's two years in. there are a lot of people that are tired and want to have fun. last year we promised them if you get vaccinated and you wear a mask and you're outdoors, you can do all those things. omicron has thrown all of us for a loop. this has been a big surprise. we saw 44,000 cases in new york city today. this is incredible and a record setting amount. we know the majority of us thankfully are going to not end up in the hospital or not going to end up dying from this. we've learned a lot from treatments, how we are going to manage this disease. what we're going to focus on right now is keeping the things open that matter, making sure that my 3-year-old can go to school on monday, where i intend on sending her because i think it's a safe space for her. it's an important space for her. i'm working five shifts in the emergency room next week, and i can't do that if she's not in school during that time. it's critical to keep people out of the emergency room and cope