even on msnbc when president biden announced the government would deal with a drastic shortage of covid test by buying 500 million at home test >> what is your message to americans trying to get tested now and are not able to get tested and who are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing. >> what took so long? >> i'm hearing that from people that are trying to get tested before the holidays. >> well, what took so long-- didn't take long at all spewing empty shelves, no test kit, is that a failure? >> i don't think it's a failure, you could argue we should have known a year ago, six month ago, two months ago, a month ago. >> you cannot only blame it on the virus, every expert we have spoken to the last two years have talked about variance and the concern of increase of transmissibility and the need for protection we should've seen this coming. howard: tv experts are constantly changing their omicron forecast and pendants