and he was saying he's getting a lot of data from the united kingdom and that is informing the authorities here in germany. that is one of the reasons why they are taking these proactive measures, to limit public gatherings, especially around new year's eve, essentially making larger new year's eve celebrations impossible. they also, by the way, put a ban on fireworks for new year's eve to make sure that there's not too many people getting together and tell brating there. they are also saying they do need to take these proactive measures, which means a lot of booster shots. but it also means, this is one of the things we saw with a lot of interest, is they are calling on hospital and other critical infrastructure as they call it, to get ready for a massive wave of infections and to check whether or not they have merge s -- emergency plans in place in case their own staff get infected by the omicron variant. they are encouraging people to get vaccinated, get boostered. they are making it difficult for unvaccinated people. at the same time putting in