experiment that we did where we streamed to our two channels i was sick um before we went on camera i mentioned this to chris and he said yeah i hear it in your voice so you can go there you can hear it right you can see exactly what it looked like and how debilitating it was i will say uh of all of us toby actually uh defeated the thing in you know less than NUMBER_TOKEN hours of you know sniffles and sneezes yeah i couldn't send him to school so he went on a bike ride right i mean but but it was exactly the same the sore throat you know all exactly the same symptoms and none of us got new things from the other as it just progressed through the face right and so we all had the same thing if you didn't have a whatever you know nightmare of a public health authority out there we would be having a very different conversation and the conversation would sound like okay omicron is sweeping through the population it is folly to think that we can control it right this is so contagious that it's uncontrollable we ought to protect those who are vulnerable and there is presumably an age threat stratification in the danger of this thing so i may have had something that felt like a mild cold an NUMBER_TOKEN year old might have something very different we should protect people from it you know even though it's not that people can't die from this right but you know the fact is the nature of death is such that you you you know you become fragile and more vulnerable to it and at some point you're so vulnerable that nearly anything can push you over so turning society upside down doesn't make any sense so the right conversation to be having is in light of omicron the policy auto radically shift in the direction of we can't control this we should protect the vulnerable we should go back we should rescue our economy to the extent that we can still do it we should address our supply chain issues and if something evolves from this that has some different pattern we'll get back to you we'll look at that one then and we'll say what does it suggest that we should be doing but of course we're not having that discussion and that tells you everything you need to know um and aside so there's a lot of things i think we're not going to get to today that i wanted to talk about but um you mentioned supply chain issues and bizarrely and i've told you this um you can't get mint fresh mint in portland for many weeks now uh and i found it once a week and a half ago or so i've been to five different markets repeatedly and i've asked them and they and yesterday someone said supply chain like okay you've got rosemary you got time what's up with the mint that's not an answer uh so they're just and our shelves aren't empty like we're seeing pictures of in some places but there are a number of things that are not being discussed or explained that are happening and um i would encourage people just to start noticing those incongruities that feel like if this had happened anything more than two years ago you would have been very surprised and maybe just start keeping track i agree with your point i happen to think with mint it's demand side really yeah it's mojitos that's what's going
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