parties now. i m obsessed with the data from new york, boston, washington, d.c., that really does seem that the worst of omicron is over quickly, too. the cases are dropping pre precipitously. hospitalizations are dropping precipitously and i just want to know what this means going forward. i understand it s going through other parts of the country and hopefully the cases drop there but what does this mean for all of us going forward, especially because so many people have become infected? are we about to enter a phase, maybe one of the better phases that we ve been in since this all began? yeah, so here is what i think where we are now. i do think, as you said, cases are dropping in the eastern seaboard from new york down to florida and other parts of the city still rising. nationally we have peaked, and we have started turning that corner. let me make two points about that. in the short run, we re still going to see an enormous number