would have looked at me and said, biden, what are you drinking, but that's what it did. now, we don't know what's going to happen from here. there's some evidence that in south africa where a lot of this started that it's dropping off quickly, too, we don't know. but i do know that we're not going to be in a position like i said, remember when we were having trouble with masks and gowns and the like. i said, i promise you. i got questions, why are you still paying for all these masks and gowns? why are you stockpiling this? turns out we're going to need it. >> doctor, you know, you and i had a conversation toward the end of the summer i believe on a podcast that i hosted. we talked about what the future looked like and you were pretty clear eyed about the likelihood that would be more variants coming and the likelihood there could be variants even worse than delta coming. we'll talk about omicron in a second, but when you hear joe biden say it didn't take long at all, what do you think about that?