having americans test for covid before they board domestic flights is the way to go moving forward. do you think that prescription could help curtail the spread? >> well, we don't really have a lot of data showing there's a lot of spread on airplanes right now. that's a combination of the robust hepa filters that circulate every couple minutes on airplanes, as well as people wearing masks, and the fact that a large amount of the population is either vaccinated, the state, or already recovered from covid with natural immunity. i think boarding a flight you should have a rapid test that is negative? i think that would be a good idea. if that means people can then get onto that airplane and take their masks off, i don't know if anybody else has tried to travel with children like i have, but it's really difficult and uncomfortable to have that mask on. i can tell you, those cloth masks are doing nothing at this point to decrease this highly transmissible variant. >> gillian: so the cloth masks aren't working? i'm guessing you think we should all be wearing the surgical