political allegiance. as eddie points out, you know, there s a reason why 600,000 americans lost their lives, or 614,000 americans have lost their lives. it is partly due to the sars-2 coronavirus, but in equal measure it was in defiance to all of those things, and it is self-defeating and so heartbreaking. it is not over. we will be looking at delta sweep through the schools, and even though the deaths may not be as high because a lot of older americans are vaccinated, we don t know the full consequences of long covid in children and adolescents. we have seen some of the mris in the adults who have brain degeneration and clinical pictures that resemble the cognitive decline with aging. this is not what we want to subject our young people to, but that s what i m worried about. so we could be looking at long-term neurologic consequences for many years because of this.