back against any sort of mandate. right now that showdown is playing out in chicago. in august mayor lori lightfoot announced that all city workers, all of them, need to be vaccinated by october 15th. that was back in august. gave them some time. that happens to be today. the city's police union, which is the second largest municipal police union in the country, is refusing to comply. just so you understand the context of how all this is playing out, the union's former president, who used to be the head of this union, just died of covid on tuesday. his successor, the current head of the union, initially responded to the mayor's mandate saying, and i am quoting here directly, "we're in america, goddamn it. we don't want on forced to do anything. period. this ain't nazi expletive germany where they say step into the expletive showers, the pills won't hurt you. what the expletive." that's right.