eighties, and even nineties. and covid is just going away. and then you look at rural counties like arkansas and missouri where vaccination rates are like 25%. you combine it with this highly contagious variant, and we see the surge of covid and so you look at the nationwide one on other cases and it s flat. but with that hides that covid is plummeting in metropolitan america and is on the rise in small towns and in rural areas. and it s scary. that point about the messiness is important. i remember we did a segment early on about how west virginia was doing a really good job ahead of their states. there s lots of ways in which the data doesn t sort in this kind of red blue way. because it was the first in place which is the northeast, new jersey, new york, connecticut. and you may look at the death data and it s awful that right? but one of the things that i find so hard to get my head around here is when you have the locked down and you have