and we've been trying to get the message out for the last, you know, eight months to get people to listen to science. we've tried to keep this apolitical and focus on the benefits of vaccines and what we know these vaccines can do. but, yet, somehow they've become politicized, and it's really painful to hear somebody in such distress. you know, air hunger, with somebody what a viral pneumonia has, someone struggling to breathe is really an agonizing way to be. i think more and more people throughout the south are starting to get it because more and more people are starting to know folk who's are hospitalized or sick or who have died from the virus. it's really starting to hit home. hospitals are filling up. your elective knee replacement is canceled because the operating room is serving as an