far-reaching impacts on american lives. short-staffed airlines along with winter weather forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights again today. a travel nightmare for people returning from the holidays, and parents now worrying as classes are set to resume for their children after the winter break. several school districts, in fact, announcing they are switching to online learning to start this semester. the white house feverishly working on plans to address and mitigate covid s daily disruptions while acknowledging those disruptions will only get worse as the virus advances. it s kind of like a very interesting, somewhat complicated issue where you have a virus that might actually be less severe in its pathogenicity, but so many people getting infected that the net amount, the total amount of people that will require hospitalization might be up. so we can t be complacent in these reports which are likely accurate that it is ultimately in the big picture less sever