lines are forming. you know, and he's not necessarily con convincing people take the vaccine and i've written about this in wall street journallening that boosters make sense and vaccines make sense but you know there's not emphasis on fact either that the omicron variant gives yo an 80% less likely chance of ending up in the hospital that's reassuring to people but that message isn't out there either nor is the mmgdz if you got cover covid that you're less leakily to get a severe strain -- severe illness here either. if you got over the delta variant even if you got omicron it is likely to be very mild. paul: so you're buying studies that coming out of the south africa that this is likely to be -- not as lethal or dangerous? >> you know, i spoke to doctor from south africa other day who is big public health official in the national institute of