what is the likelihood of that happening, do you think? i wish i had a crystal ball and could tell you definitively. i think we would be naive to not expect another variant. and i remember the day before thanksgiving, telling people that delta was showing just tremendous evolutionary strength and was overcoming all of the other new variants that were coming along. and then thanksgiving day happened and omicron was announced by our colleagues in south africa. this moment, with the omicron surge peaking in much of the country and thus heading into the downward curve of cases is exactly the moment we need to be proactive about preparing for future surges so we don t get caught with this again. the fact testing kits and masks are arriving now in houses across the united states, it s a travesty. we ve known almost two years now that these things were needed and this is the moment to be ready, if and when another