I think in order to find out what we've done, you're going to have to have somebody who has power come to our community, because we feel--and I think any other community is going to feel the same way--that they're not going to know that any of this was any good. We had no idea that what we were doing in our community was any different from what other people were or were not doing. We were shocked to find that out when Dr. Bennett came to our community. We kept saying, “Is she kidding us?” We didn't believe that she was so impressed with what we were doing, because we assumed other people were doing exactly this. We would never have known.
So I don't know if a position at that level is going to really find out what's happening at the grassroots level. It might have to be more about communicating with the communities, trying to pull that information out from me, saying, “Okay, Garden River health director, what have you been doing for the pandemic? Where are you now, what have you produced, and what are you willing to share?” Bringing the grassroots people together in a more coordinated fashion--I think it would work this way instead of that way.
I'm not really sure if I....