because what is the path forward to get over these challenges you're describing here? >> i think there is a lot of hope. i actually the whole last part of the book it is my policy wonk of coming from the brookings institution but laying out the fact we know how to fix it and we have the capacity to do it. there are amazing things being done on the community and local level across the united states. my family in the u.s. is scattered across the whole country out to the midwest. when i go out to visit, there is energy, there is positivity about what they can do around their churches, around their local communities. people know how to fix things. what is getting in the way is the politics, and some particular personalities. america isn't just built up of rugged individuals doing their own thing. america over the centuries has been built up by people pulling together. and we can get collective action and i think the best way to do it is to start at the bottom, in your community, in your, you know, local neighborhood, we have seen people pulling together over covid like this. we think about early can do