hard by the ba.2 others haven't. so we'll see how it goes. let's watch this trend continue. the numbers are about 60% down nationally. if this continues we'll be in a very good position, at least for a few months. then my recommendation for the centers of disease control is create some kind of alert system so we know when the cases go up in case we have to reimplement masks. in principle i think the masks can come off this spring, whether it's a couple weeks ago or a couple months, that's the unknown with the variant. >> and almost in an organized way republicans running for office are turning dr. fauci into some type of boogie man or