views, which is why i think that we need to be cautious about how we understand this transition period. hopefully, this will end with we re never going to eradicate covid, but we may get down to a livable level. we ll have to see. on the other hand. we have the possibility of some pretty vicious variants, or mutations in the wings here. so it s a wait-and-see time, but certainly cause for optimism in many parts of the u.s. do you see a future where we will be seeing different types of covid? one after another in a wave pattern? well, jose, it s really difficult to say that we won t see that, let me put it that way, in the kind of double negligent form. let me explain. we have too many parts of the world, you know, sub-saharan africa, parts of south america, et cetera, where there s extreme