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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, April 2nd, 2021.

I am John Pudhawar. It's the editor of commentary magazine back after a week's vacation.

Associate Editor-in-All Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. Thanks for having me. Happy to be back.

We missed you. We missed you dearly. We soldiered on without you, but it wasn't the same.

Was it Executive Editor Abe Greenwald? Hi Abe. Not the same at all.

Different podcast. Different podcast and see your writer Christine Rosamhyk Christine.

I am the most delighted to have Noah back because his technical skills that vastly surpasses mine.

So I disagree. I listened to when I could and it sounded nice to me and you guys created a lot

of controversy as well. It was a way. So maybe I'm just sticking the spokes.

Well, no, it was your controversy. I don't want to get into it, but it was part of your controversy.

You've been worried about basically since the beginning of the daily podcast, which is this

question of whether or not we're going to end up with some kind of bifurcated society of the

vaccinated and unvaccinated as now represented by this vaccine passport idea. The only

viable or the only current vaccine passport that I'm aware of, I now have a copy of that is the

New York State excels your vaccine passport, which I will be interested to tell people who don't

know it expires at the end of this month. So I registered it on the date that I was allowed to,

which was the 30th of March and it expires on the 30th of April. And I have to, I guess I will have

to re up again. Why that is the case. Well, we just don't know how long you'll be immune, John.

We don't know how long you have antibodies. So it's just prudent. Okay. So Pfizer announced

yesterday, the day before yesterday that they are their current research says that the vaccine

is viable for six months at a minimum, but that they are only saying six months right now. We want

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