these masks. that s right. now we have plenty. we have plenty now. we need to get them out and instruct people how to use them. right now we re seeing up to a quarter of the people that wear their mask on their chin under their nose. that s nothing more than a chin diaper. it doesn t help. we have not done a good job educating the public about the importance of quality masking and what we can do to reduce the risk of transmission. not only do we have to distribute the product, like you said and i think that s going to happen in a better way but we got to instruct people on how to use these so they can protect themselves and their loved ones. many thanks to all of you. also this morning, flags are flying at half staff on capitol hill in honor of harry reid, a titan of the senate and its former democratic leader, he died yesterday at 82 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. his american story is really extraordinary, rising from
overplaying, it doesn t help, isn t making people nervous? it makes people nervous, but it s helpful. yeah, it s aggressive. we are thankful to our allies in the u.s., and in europe but for this strategy. you like? it no, i hate it. but, it s something that saves me. so, you know the ukrainian people, ambassador, and we see them, they want to live in a democracy. when you see those kinds of gatherings, today, when you hear someone like that woman, what goes through your mind? but will goes to my mind, chris, the strength of the ukrainian people. they have been living with this threat, this fight, with this war, in the east for eight years. the russians, as we know, invaded ukraine in 2014, and the russians have come across the border. they ve annexed part of ukraine, crimea ukrainian people have
up for re-election. west virginia is a reliably red state, but he s popular there. he s polling at 61% i believe in the last poll in november. so there are other senators who have more seniority who would want committee assignments, which is usually an enticement when you re trying to bring somebody over. they could be promising him a committee chairmanship if they take congress back, but that s a long ways away. i think this is all to sew discord and make it look politically like the democrats can t get their acts together. it doesn t help. we know that perception is reality in politics and right now, it looks like democrats couldn t line up a two-car motorcade. without getting some of the signature legislation passed or at least trying to do something with voting rights and civil rights going into 2022, because we see what republicans are trying to do here, quietly or
resilience. this woman s house i was in, it didn t look like being in that one room was going to be able to save them. but it did. well, i love the fact that you talked about that mother s instinct. she was preaching to the congregation when it came to me because you d have to get through me to get to my two kids. i completely understood that. it was remarkable the way she said that. all these people in mayfield that bravery in her, she was not going to there was no other decision for her. the decision was if there is a tornado coming and my daughter is in jeopardy, the tornado will get me first. absolutely. and if that helps, it helps, if it doesn t help, it doesn t help, but the tornado is going to hit me first. i so admire her, and so many of the people you ve been talking to today, really an extraordinary group of people there in mayfield. thank you so much for bringing their stories to us. meantime, there are more stories, everybody. people hit in these hard-hit comm
the beginning of the illness before they have the ability to infect more. it should be ubiquitous. we should have them in the country. we have tests that you can buy at cvs. yeah, but they re i just was at cvs yesterday, they were out. they were out. it s not available. it doesn t help. and appointments were out at places. so i said okay, i ll try somewhere else. it s going to be more important as we get into the cold and flu season, since we are less masked than we were a year ago, we are going to see more of a flu season than we did last year where we had very little flu. we had so much social distancing and mask wearing, so it will be very important for us to be able it to test and weed out what s just an innocent cold versus breakthrough covid. that brings me to my next question, you have the approaching colder weather coming, the holidays where more people are going to be gathering indoors. of course that raises the threat of localized outbreaks this winter. what do yo