terms of moving out of a pandemic phase let's say to an endemic phase? >> well, let me split this into swo spat pamplts as an author of that paper that's being discussed right now, let me say in general the media mischaracterized what we did. what we were talking about was not a criticism of what was going on now, but that we had to eventually get to a new normal. that we were going to have to live with this virus over the course of years to come and our job was to figure out how best to do that as opposed to bouncing from variant to variant. so i just want to clarify that that was not a criticism of what's going on now, or that they needed to change plans of such. in terms of the second issue, though, let me say we are in the middle of a crisis right now. for the next three weeks or so we are going to see omicron continue to be this viral blizzard around the country and it's not going to be business as usual. it's going to be a challenge. we're going to continue to see absentee rates and workers,