around the world the view of covid hasn t met the reality on the ground. when you read headlines there is a surge in cases in a quickly moving virus. you think it s going to be marc. there is going to be a run on ventilators. thousands of people are going to die. there is all this fear. after the holidays, there is still going to be 300 schools shut down because of omicron which is something that we are going to talk about later in the show. when the reality is thank god by the grace of god this omicron variant is similar to a cold. especially if you are vaccinated. and one of the things that the white house did when we first learned about omicron being a part of our life was the biden administration placed a travel ban on eight southern african countries to try and slow the spread, to give the administration some time and doctors some time to try and figure out how serious this virus is. controversial decision whenever you impose travel bans on certain countries and, will, you did an