i think that cruise ships are still on the table. it is personal choice but maybe they would have a tighter system of figuring out how to screen you. airlines, too. you just said airports are even more of a problem than planes. i think screening should be more than just vaccine status. proof of immunity from prior infection and rapid testing if we had them. scarcity of rapid tests. >> trace: i want to put up the averages. the change from last week. cases 316,000, up 55%. hospitalizations up 9.1 percent. look at the bottom. deaths are down 10%. i know it is a lagging indicator. isn't this where we wanted to be? case rate up and death rate stable and going down? >> absolutely. that's the light at the end of the tunnel. i wrote about that in the "wall street journal" this week. i want people to take heart with new year's coming. don't respond to fear mongering. let's have hope.