and more state and local governments moving to ease or drop their mask mandates. let s go through some of the numbers and the map. five states here and you re seeing this in local communities and more dropping either indoor mask mandates or in most of these cases california is an indoor mask mandate. these other states also putting on the calendar dropping school mask mandates as well as we move forward. now why are they doing this? because of this. our omicron peak was 803,000 new infections a day. you see now we re down to averaging 266,000. that s still a high number but look how quickly it s coming down and continues to drop. so listen to two public health experts here. yes, this is a good time for state, local and federal governments to think about rolling back restrictions. just be careful. independent of whether there s mandates or not, i think people should reasonable wear masks when they re indoors for the next few weeks until we re much farther down where we are now. we re