collapsing, actually, but no one could take advantage of it. now the economy is back open. we re seeing prices go higher. to catherine s point, though, president biden doesn t have the ability to completely lower prices and that s not something that we should expect to happen overnight. but if this is covid. when will we come out of this? i wish i knew the answer. it does look like obviously lots of supply chain bottlenecks are persisting longer than anybody anticipated, the fed anticipated, other economists anticipated and today, as was the case a year ago, the pandemic is in control of the global economy so unless we get vaccination rates up, not just in the u.s. but in poorer countries that don t have sufficient access to vaccination supply, i think you re still going to see these disruptions around the world. president biden also talked about that just now. i mean, he talked about the supply chain and trying to do things on that front as well, including ports. yes. so,