debbie berkowitz, sort of our osha whisperer over the last year of the pandemic.e. >> first of all, have i misconstrued any of this? am i looking at any of this the wrong way around and am i right to be a little weirded out that this deadline has come and gone and we haven't heard anything? >> you're right, but also i just have to say having been a senior official at osha, it's a relatively small agency. this was a herculean task to get out this rule in like eight weeks. if it's a couple of weeks late, you want to make sure they get it right, right? this is not only the single largest public health crisis in our nation, covid, but it's the single largest occupational health crisis. we know that workplace exposures have been a significant driver of this pandemic and in order to, you know, mitigate the spread of covid out into the communities, we need to mitigate the spread at work and that way our economy will reopen. so they need to get it right. hopefully, we will see that rule, if it's a couple of weeks late, that's okay. any longer, then we need to worry a litt