Politics of it, that people don t want to go back to lockdowns and being prohibited from going in the office when they want to, and secondly, that if you look at a situation like china, people feel, i guess, what brit said, you know, it s insane. maybe it s political at this point. you got to think it s the government government just extending the ar thorn tarren hand to make you stay home. this is a way of expressing their political strength. it has nothing to do with the disease. bret: last thing, josh, there are treatments now. there are different things that have come about not only the vaccines but also various kinds of treatments for covid. we have advanced from where we were in 2020. there are people who fear that some parties, some places will use covid resurgence to affect the elections in different way. is that a conspiracy theory or do you think it s real. i think it s more of a conspiracy theory but dr. jha made an important point that the case counts are now decoupled