know that there have been very lax restrictions, if any, in the state of florida, you know? no mandates. governor desantis has gone out of his way to push back at every turn against anything like that. so why don't we have states like california who have very stringent rules when it comes to covid taking, you know, a note from florida? why aren't they trying to do the same thing? it's really a curious question. >> it's totally puzzling. and when you look at this omicron variant, this could end up being the omi-con variant. [laughter] seems like they're trying to get an awful lot of mileage out of something, i just read the report from the south african medical authorities. they're saying this has a very mild disease associated with it, just some soreness, a cough for a day. and remember, all the people that a we found infected with this variant, they only found them through testing. they weren't showing any symptoms. so everybody needs to take a