statistics and analytical observations were much of my work and had I had time in my prescribed college workload (between all the lab courses that required 4 hours per credit), I could have taken a stats class on top of the 3 semesters of calculus and gotten a math minor... but alas. 
I have been following/tracking the data myself (saving it on my laptop) and even had a mega thread in LBN that I updated for 6 months at the beginning of the pandemic - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142446993 (driving some LBN regulars absoutely insane 
).
But agree that the trends were just too obvious.
I'm seeing us doing a repeat of last summer when Delta started raging, followed that late fall with the emergence of the earliest Omicron variants that peaked in the U.S. this past January. I am analogizing Omicron's BA.5 (the current one that has become predominant) with Delta, and what may end up being the variant out of India that is hitting other countries (including South Africa I think) - BA.2.75, which although has been confirmed in the U.S., hasn't shown up yet on CDC's variant tracker, but probably will soon.
Since I'm retired, I can do hours at the stores away from the crowds and I have observed that the masking is mixed... I do still see the older adults masking with the middleagers not doing it anymore. I mask and will continue to do so and will try to get whatever bivalent/Omicron-targeted vaccine booster that gets approved this fall!
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