down and that's plateaued again. and that's, whether that's because of the new version of omicron, ba.2 or some other factors we don't entirely know yet, but that's a real possibility in the u.s. number one, omicron is not in the rearview mirror yet. that's the first point. second, we still have to worry about the ba.2 variant that could rise and then third, we have failed to vaccinate the planet, the world's low and middle income countries and we see now how the worst variants of concern are out of low and middle income countries. i think we're right now in a set-up for another variant to emerge this summer. i don't know if this will be from the african continent or southeast asia or latin america but we have to assume it will do this again and just like in 2021 and 2020, it will hit the southern united states and here in texas and create another massive wave and knock off a lot of unvaccinated people once again. and so that has to be the all