of the state. great pleasure to have both of you returning to the program. doctor let me start with you. as somebody who is a public health official. who's had to do the stuff of public health. make policy decisions, under conditions of uncertainty. bouncing very different interests. how do you think about the way i laid out that framework. how you are thinking about this moment. in a state that is undergoing a very severe spike. >> that is true. new york state is undergoing a severe spike. we presume is in omicron. have 60% of our variants now, the omicron variant. 67,000 new cases is the number that we have from yesterday. we have that omicron pattern that you showed for the uk. that you described in south africa. and since i've been commissioner, we've done two things. one, the governor has declared orders a mask, or vaccine mandate. the other is we on december 24th, instituted for health