and the hospitals were overrun. it's highly likely that with omicron, we will see hundreds of thousands of cases a day. and of those, probably a little lesser percentage will be serious enough to go to the hospital. and hopefully a much lesser percentage now that we're vaccinated and many people have three doses will be sick enough to go on a ventilator or, god forbid, die. but the hospitals are still going to be overrun. the health care industry, the doctors and nurses who are already exhausted from alpha, beta, gamma, and delta are now going to have to face, in the middle of the holiday season, hospitals being overrun. we may get lucky. because this disease is starting so quickly and has such an exaggerated upward curve, we might get lucky and it has an exaggerated downward curve. the problem is we probably have 100 million people in the united states who are susceptible, and that's because they either