contributor and dr. blackstock just as we were getting this news from the federal government here about schools and more testing, it does seem as if everybody is starting to choose their own adventure on the state level. the main department of education changed something here with contact tracing and i'm curious what you think. conducting contact tracing in a timely and thorough manner is becoming increasingly difficult if not impossible for school personnel given the fast spread of the omicron variant and the advised standard that the state put in and permits schools with universal masking policies to suspend contact tracing if they're not able to conduct it effectively in order to rededicate staff to focus on covid-19 strategies. i'm sure hospitals and schools are going we want to follow the most stringent set of rules but