so senator shotz being out for covid, there is no proxy system for him to do so. right, the united states has taken no recognition of the pandemic. getting them to work things out, we saw today, is quite difficult. they cannot force all these people into the same room to vote. they re only a large, powerful, collective group of lots of octegenarians. why would they need to take notice of this particular respiratory illness? i think we could go on and on with the oddities of the united states senate. in fact, orenstein is here and that s exactly what we re going