mandates, vaccination mandates, vaccine passports, everything. huge political push to say we don't want to do that. they're resisting masks in schools an yet look at the numbers. >> that's the compounding problem. sometimes statistics, percentages can confuse people. what do the real numbers look like? >> if you look at the actual number of beds available. florida 468 beds. louisiana 175. texas 417. texas, 417. look at florida and texas together, that's more than 50 million people. if you look at this, oklahoma, arkansas 17. mississippi 60. alabama about 5 million people live in alabama, just north of that. 0 icu beds available. put this all together and you're talking about maybe 1,200 beds, something like that. for all of these there's no sign of this letting up at all. >> tom forman, thank you very much. three sitting u.s. senators