variants suggest to you we re alternately working toward a situation where you might be getting a new covid shot every year like this people get the flu shot in it seems like the direction this looks like it s headed. yes. it seems to me, too. same thing. and i think it s very, very unlikely. virtually impossible at this point that we re going to eliminate covid-19 and the various variants that are cropping up in places that have been so fiercely undervaccinated. so i think we should get ready as a public to expect that we ll be getting an annual booster shot. that said, if we do get the annual booster shot, especially if it s modified to deal with whatever new variant is out there, we could expect to be pretty protected from getting really sick, and i think that s good news. anything else we should be watching for as we re seeing omicron start to spread in we re seeing the uk start to lock down. europe has tended to be a precursor to what we see in the