now they've put it in writing and they say, yeah, that's what we think this is all about. you have a situation now where, what, one in 500 americans is dead from covid, one in 400 in florida. in alabama for the first time in recorded history they had more deaths last year nan births. the population literally shh rank. mississippi, second biggest in the country, would be number two in the world, in deaths per capita. the republican party is no longer a party of low taxes or more police, it is a party of mass death. how do you deal with that in a democracy? we can't just go on about, oh, the bipartisan spending bill, budget reconciliation, it is a party of mass death. >> the other thing we encountered i think because of this wall that's been hit -- again, i keep noting this. there are republican governors who have done a good job with covid. you know, in vermont, they've done a decent job in maryland, massachusetts. complicated, all of them, but they're not in the same category. i saw this interesting piece the other day, alex, about vaccine