i think, a more cautious approach. they are acting in advance, they hope, of a rise in hospital cases, to head off the worst of it. but in england, the government's firm holding out against imposing any new measures. now, that will be in part motivated by a desire to keep things open as much as possible, to protect the economy, keep it going, to keep schools open, of course, and to also protect public health as best they can with what has been put in place at the moment. but there is also a political reality at play, too, which we can't ignore, and that is that the prime minister, borisjohnson, is under intense pressure from his own party to not go any further and impose further restrictions, because people are ideologically opposed to them. they simply don't buy that they're necessary at this point, given that the high number of cases, which is continuing to rise, but at the moment, the early data suggesting also that omicron is perhaps less severe than other variants of the viruses,