to be done. we need probably 2 to 3 billion tests a months, not hundreds of millions. billions of tests a month, if we want people in america to take, say, two tests a week before gatherings and other things. and then you have masking. we have to upgrade from sort of flimsy cotton masks to really serious k95, kn95 masks. wear them indoors. wear them outdoors if you re going to a crowded situation. then we have ventilation, which has not been well publicized here, getting hepa filters and making sure that the air is better and filtering out the virus particles. so those are the four things. and the fifth thing we re waiting on is, for the merck and pfizer drugs that really shorten the impact of getting an infection to be authorized by the fda. that should happen pretty soon. and then getting them out to people who are infected is going to be a very big and important task.
we re going to need mandates. that s just we re not going to get past the 61 or 2 percent just by asking people. we ve been stuck at that level for several months now. so we re definitely going to need to have more mandates. then we have testing. we have to flood the zone with tests. they are you know, that needs to be done. we need probably 2 to 3 billion tests a month, not hundreds of millions. billions of tests a month, if we want people in america to take, say, two tests a week before gatherings and other things. and then you have masking. we have to upgrade from sort of flimsy cotton masks to really serious k95, kn95 masks. wear them indoors. wear them outdoors if you re going to a crowded situation. then we have ventilation, which has not been well publicized here, getting hepa filters and