higher than our worst time in january. so everybody has got to brace themselves and get ready. i lay this at the feet of unvaccinated folks really generating this. i'm not casting blame. i'm just saying it's causal. july 4th weekend everyone went out because the camelot feeling was there, felt like we could get back to normal. unvaccinated folks represented 65% of the population in the southeast, and the delta variant was lurking, jumped in, sparked a flame. now that flame is a wildfire. >> i want to play something. this is a sound bite that came in from the acting mayor of boston. i want to make sure i have the context of this right. the acting mayor of boston, massachusetts, kim janey on tuesday likened requiring proof of a covid vaccination to slave papers and birtherism. let me play a sound bite from this mayor. >> during slavery, post slavery, as recent as what the immigrant