the beam. she is a testament to strength. it doesn't mean you have to push yourself. if it was right for her, it's great to see. but she took a stronger stand than i've seen from anyone in the olympics. florida absolutely getting hit hard right now, and nobody wants to see that, but it is a laboratory right now for what the variant can do. they have four variants there that are spreading. and how measures in response will matter, especially their pushing back against the vaccine and now pushing back against masks. even as the state just broke its own record for hospitalizations for the third straight day. remember, hospitalizations, that's a lagging indicator. that means you had so many cases that you got that kind of boost of people who were sick enough to go to the hospital. now, its vaccination rate, which was never that high, is falling. the florida governor himself says this. >> these innovations have failed