i think the kind of pain- you are seeing on high streets and village shops with people, i consumers had hoped to recoup the losses of the last year by bumper sales and timej for people to go out and shop, | etc, and instead they are being hit by another wave, - this time omicron, not sure exactly how long it will go on, will there be a lockdown - and all this createsl a lot of uncertainty. and of course if you mention china, china unlike many- countries in the west - and indeed many countries around the world have decided to find ways to live with the virus, mutation i to the virus, china still has a zero covid policy, - so if you have zero covid, you have lockdown, restrictions |which are not compatible trying to fire up the economy. and of course too there - is the inter nexus between economics and politics as well. both in terms of china -