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businesses, visit GS.com slash 10Ks B. And Hey y'all it's Brittany. So it's been almost two and a half years of COVID and I

cannot possibly be the only one who was praying that something

something good would come out of this you know that maybe the crisis of COVID would

finally give us I don't, like a crisis of consciousness.

I mean, against literal centuries of American history to the contrary,

I an eternal cautious optimist figured we'd finally get some of those workplace accommodations

the disabled people have been fighting for for ages

or you know at least we'd realize that we could actually provide health care free of charge

like we did COVID tests.

Or maybe we'd realize we had the ability and the money.

To meet people's needs after all, the way we sent those stimulus checks.

Yeah. I was tripping because a lot of those accommodations

went away after the corporations wanted us all back to work and those tests

suddenly seemed to have dried up.

And those stemmies did not come monthly like we thought they would.

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