squeezed and a lot of people who work in those hospitals basically at their wits' end. on top of that dealing with a disease this contagious and you're not doing something dramatic like locking everyone down, closing everything, putting people in their houses, it is just going to disrupt a lot of every day life. we're seeing that in broadway shows being canceled because the cast, the crew all come down with omicron. nfl and nba rosters just decimated by covid. tons of players being signed and bringing guys out of retirement. thousands of flights are canceled. the flights are canceled because just too many airline crews are getting sick. restaurants and schools across the country are closing again not as a public health measure but simply because there aren't enough healthy workers. transmissibility is so high, the numbers are so insane in some ways it feels like a massive improvement over the darkest davis the pandemic but it is very hard to call it normal. that is in some ways the biggest challenge for the biden administration in this coming year i think specifically both