they can offer testing, vaccination, boosters, referral to care, new york city is the canary in the coal mine, and we want to prove that the federal government can have an impact here before this goes national. we need help now. but why are we here? why is this an emergency? has the federal government not been working with cities and states for months to solve testing, or was it, hey, we ve got a vaccine, don t worry about anything else. because right now that s what it feels like. there s no doubt that the idea that all we have to do was vaccinate was never correct. we need vaccination plus testing, masking, other precautions, and we re behind on testing relative to the rest of the world where for a dollar or two you can get a test anywhere. sometimes for free, we still have a desperate shortage of self-tests here. you have to run from drugstore to drugstore and hope you get lucky and find a kit that you can buy for $25. this is not working. so yes, we need the federal government