the media has to schedule the next variant now to effect people's holiday family gatherings, so they can call a spike of flu cases during the winter as "omicron" cases, then try again to pass HR-1 bill for a fed takeover of the election (actually it would be the end of real elections), then scare everyone with another variant by next Nov. 2022's election to explain away the record number of unsolicited "mail-in" ballots.