doctor, i will start with you. her remarks struck me very much like virginia, the guy running for virginia governor, his remark about, you don't have any right as parents to know what your children are being taught, this disconnect as though we are coparenting with her. it is not of her business. what is your take on this notion that 2-year-olds, it's not a big deal to have them in masks for several hours a day? >> well, tammy, first of all, merry christmas eve eve to everyone out there. i do take offense to this in the sense that i am a mother of three children, as well as a physician, and while i can tell you early on in the pandemic when we did not have a lot of tools to decrease transmission and also protect the vulnerable, mask wearing have a much bigger impact and role in our fight against covid-19. however, now that we have an arsenal between vaccines and boosters and treatments and also that we have a wall of immunity