It's affecting larger communities and it's certainly affecting children in a way that we hadn't seen before. And that's new compared to last year.

Juan Salazar

It's really about us thinking about our sustainability goals... and being a good corporate steward, this is the standard we set for the company going forward.

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Perhaps it is more widely spread now that we've liberalized our social gatherings. Perhaps some of the masks have come off -- families are tired. They are not willing to undergo some of the strict isolation policies from a year ago, and so that has allowed these new variants to spread more widely. And for that reason it's affecting kids, who at this point are the most at-risk population because they're not vaccinated, or many of them are not.