away so quickly the numbers keep getting worse, hospitalizations, deaths here in the united states. what are you bracing here? >> i think we have to continue on continue to get people vaccinated. if you look at the areas where the delta variant is high you have very low vaccination rates. when you look at the vaccination rates are higher, it's very low delta. so we have to continue to push people to get vaccinated. but also the investments that we're making and getting our economy running, we have to keep that going. we can't just stop because of a one-month number. there were some positive signs here, 203,000 jobs in the private sector. we saw some gains in manufacturing. but we still have a ways to go. we knew that from the beginning. >> we did some checking, and last month 5.6 million americans said they weren't able to work or they had to work reduced hours because their employer was affected by the pandemic. that's not going to change ed, is it? >> no, it's not going to change. for the last 19 months we've been dealing with the pandemic in the united states of america. businesses are different, they've changed their style,