Romans, christine, we have been warned, even from the white house, that we could perhaps see a lower than expected number, this may have been a blip because of omicron. this number, though, came as a real surprise. what does the data show? it shows surprising strength in the job market. it shows there are still more open jobs than people to fill them and companies are hungry for workers. it shows even with absenteeism because of sick-outs and people taking care of sick kids and family and out of work in that second week of january because of omicron, you still had strong hiring. and the hiring was across the board. 467,000 net new jobs added. and you also had revisions in the latter half of the year that showed even more strength than the fall and winter than we had thought. a little bit weaker than we had thought in the summer, so a lot of revisions in these numbers. i also think that goes to the difficulty we have in actually measuring what omicron and what covid has done to the am