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Can the federal reserve do. they will be on the spot in 2022, they have a very tough job, they'd like to bring inflation down as quickly as possible and of course they could do that, they could raise rates to 5% overnight, the trouble is in doing so they control inflation but cost us a lot of jobs and perhaps push the economy into negative territory. they don't want to do that. it's going to be a balancing act and the relief will depend on how well they can manage that balancing act. >> we are going to ride this, heather/doug optimism train for just a moment because we certainly need it as we ...

See a shift in it right away, certainly it continues to be strong levels of quitting, record levels of quitting in 2021 and there's no sign that will stop in early 2022. overall i'm kind of like doug, i think this is a pretty optimistic sign for the economy, it means we do have 11 million job openings still. we haven't seen a rise in -- in jobless claims and people going back on unemployment aid. normally we see that at the end of the holiday season as people leave seasonal jobs and warehouses and retail stores. so far we are not seeing that tick up yet. so when you look across the board it's ...

I have to also commiserate with you in that i feel like we're always talking about split-screen moments, it's always a conversation of this is happening and there's wildfires and a pandemic that we are in the midst of. there is a disastrous tornado and a pandemic. how are they going to deal with that. >> exactly. >> you think about the evacuation, where these folks now have to go, thousands of people gathering into one place, how is omicron going to spread throughout that gymnasium, for instance, if they are all there. these are all things that emergency responders and health care workers need...