outlier, it's having a profound intangible effect. now let me be clear, as we said on the show before, the biden administration is falling short in dealing with the virus in testing capacities, to confusion around quarantine guidelines, but it really stands out in terms of this country's battle against covid especially deal with this omicron wave. which has washed over places that such as varied as south africa, denmark, uk. the pandemic we have right now, and that other countries are having is proving to be much less deadly and other countries where they more vaccine and more boosted than us. that's the plain brutal truth. you can see it plainly on this graph. showing per debts for millions of people. just in december when omicron was beginning to ramp. up were an outlier. another thing weren't outlier. -- france, the uk, it's even worse here than south africa with a lower vaccination rate. the -- piers they may have had way