we shall see. i think by the end of this week, we should know a lot more as to whether or not it's going to happen. and, of course, it's happening at the same time that a lot of other things are on the boil. on covid, the administration is making some new moves as well. the president today directing that $600 payments should be made to individual farmworkers and people who work in meat packing plants to compensate them for the extraordinary risk and thank them for the extraordinary service they provided the country during the covid pandemic. earlier agricultural aid and food supply chain aid had basically gone to the owners of those businesses, not to the low-level workers. biden had said 600 there are checks should go to low-level workers in those fields. as of this week we're back up to a steady stream of more than 1500 deaths every day from covid, which is impossible to swallow. and some states, states with lower vaccination rates, are having it even harder than