now we re doing virtual school, not virtual school, masks, no masks. what s going on here? and i just think the lack of clarity is contributing to the level of frustration. i mean, i know that we all feel that, so can boosted people get back can they resume now their normal lives in terms of travel, going out, restaurants, seeing people, all of that? there s a couple of questions here to answer yours. the first is, what is an individual s risk tolerance? how willing are you to deal with the potential risk of getting sick? second, where are you? if you re in a part of the community where you re starting to see the level of cases abate, it is probably a less risky proposition for you to go about the kind of things that you would have gone about. but lastly, let s not forget that hospitalizations are still surging. here, there is a challenge here. because when we talk about omicron, we talk about it as being less severe for you or i. the problem is, for us, it is actually quite seve
what s happening in the uk, as well. we re seeing the ripple effects of this happening around the world. absolutely. this is one of the hitting points, this has destabilized a lot of the relationships that in the past we ve been able to count on. one other thing that i do want to point out, too, is that when we look at the impact of russian meddling, and a lot of this data starting to come out as well in the united states, we know that it s destabilized relationships within the united states, which it was designed to do. when we look at the investigation into facebook, into social media more generally, when we look at the various relationships, these kind of groups and these uprisings that have come out between 2016 and today, including these various political organizations on the left and the right, and always in between, we do know that as a function of democracy, you know, working democracy, we need to have somewhat good relationships in order for things to move forward. what we v