Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The fraction of Serbia's population that's fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is the second

highest in Europe. We look into why a relatively poor and corrupt country got so far ahead

of the average and what it may mean in the political long run. And research has long shown

that employment leads to fulfillment. Some amount of working gives people a sense of purpose.

But what is that amount? The pandemic's crimped hours and furlough schemes have provided a

natural experiment to find out.

First up though.

With the attention of the world's media focused on the pandemic last year, it may have

seemed as if there were fewer of the mass shootings for which America has become notorious.

This year, lamentably, there's no mistaking the trend. On March 16, a gunman in Atlanta

apparently targeted Asian Americans.

Grizzly new details tonight in the Atlanta spy shootings.

The attacks were three massage parlors in the northern suburbs of the city. Eight people

were murdered in roughly one hour. Six of them, Asian women.

Days later, ten more deaths at a supermarket in Polarado.

Shooting has claimed multiple lives as the police put it in bolder.

We had a very tragic incident today here at the King's Super's. There was loss of life.

I can match shooting with multiple deaths in just one week in this country.

Three killed at a house party gone wrong in North Carolina. Six members of the same family

in Texas. A mother and her two children shot by a man who then took his own life in New

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