Brian Barrett

I think there's, like, a class of people who are opportunists who, you know, foment this in order to sell supplements.

I believe it's the rate of transmission related to that.

I do think people should read this story because the details are fascinating too.

It was a real team effort.

They didn't just do it in a vacuum.

They reached out to someone at this lab who they knew had the right kind of whatever.

I'm not a scientist, but it was a coordination among three or four different labs that each of which had an element that would be able to contribute to making this test happen.

Really incredible.

And then at the same time,

Moderna, we all remember Moderna, they're already at work too on an mRNA vaccine if we get to that point where we feel like we need to have vaccines, assuming that RFK Jr.

does not put a stop to it because he thinks vaccines and mRNA vaccines specifically are bad.

So, you know, there's...

I don't want to say we're in a great place because any hantavirus feels like a bad amount of hantavirus, but it does feel like we're in a better place, or at least the competence is starting to shine through in a way that's reassuring.

That gets you to a six.

I know.

That's higher.

That's high.

I am ready.

So I'm going to say my tired, you know, my kids, it's the end of the school year here, believe it or not, where I live.

So I've got several sort of like graduation ceremonies, recognition ceremonies in which parents sit in bleachers or bleacher adjacent seating.