this week the governor of michigan, gretchen whitmer, asked the white house to help meet the surge in cases in her state with a new surge of vaccines to her state. in places where we have big snurjz cases, raises this interesting question. can we flood those zones with more vaccines than they might otherwise get? i mean, it makes sense, at least in layman's terms, in trying to get around the epidemic on the other side of it. for two reasons, right? the risks of having tons of virus floating around, having tons of copious transformation anywhere in the country, it's the same as the risk we had before vaccines. copious transmission means people are getting sick and people are dying. with vaccines, that may be somewhat mitigated by the fact that older people are likely to have vaccine-ininduced immunity now, but rise in cases, rise in hospitalizations, rise