panic neglect cycle that has long been occurring. whenever a crisis happens, we pay attention. we pay investment to it, and once the immediacy fades, so does our care about the problem. we can see that with delta. it was in many ways an audition of the next pandemic, one we failed, and it means that we do now need even while we re thinking about boosters and vaccinations and kavanaugh and whatever, to think about how we can better prepare against whatever comes next. we have to do both of those things at the same time. so what problems do we need to fix right now today? i think two in particular, one is the long standing problem with public health in this country. it is for almost a century faced incredible amounts of disinvestment so that the current structure is under staffed, it is crumbling buildings, it is archaic data systems. it needs a stable and substantial amount of money to make it up to scratch.