But this is actually really interesting snap hshot. the mayor of kansas city, missouri, a democrat, mayor quentin lucas, he told the new york times this. the mayor said there was a gap between how the biden administration and the national media talked about covid-19 and how the pandemic was now being experienced in his city. he says, i just don t think that the government frankly has that much runway left in terms of telling people what to do, because he s in a city, a part of this country, which is actually maybe a lot of this country, where people have actually already moved on. and in the big cities, in d.c., and new york, and maybe l.a. or whatever, there s just more reluctance. the biden administration is in the greater washington, d.c. area. they are living in a bubble. this is a bubble that is not like much of the rest of america. obviously, there are some places where even having a mask in your pocket is seen as like not cool. but, here in washington, d.c.,