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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday April 6, 2021.

I'm John Puthworts the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyade

Hyde John associate editor noir Osman Hynella Hyde John and in the throws of an allergy attack

senior writer Christine Rosen Hyde Christine Hyde John yeah you sound you know you sound like

naezyly I'm sorry yeah you sound like Meg Ryan and you've got mail when she has the cold

and he has the comes in he brings her soup or whatever he does anyway so it's time for some

ranting it's time for just some generalized ranting yet again about the way in which the wildly

successful effort to combat COVID and get us out of the pandemic is is being covered so we are now

hearing that we are basically now vaccinating in excess of three million people a day on average

that number will probably go up significantly over the course of the next couple of weeks probably

to four million a day and as of April 19th the president of the United States half declared

waving his magic staff that everyone over the age of 16 or 16 and over will be eligible for

vaccinations beginning on April 19th obviously that means that there's going to be sufficient

supply and it also means that we are starting to approach the end of the scarcity problem or the

problem of too many people chasing too little vaccine and we are fast approaching the point at

which we are going to have more vaccine than we know what to do with and we are as we said yesterday

going to start trying that we're going to start getting a clear picture of who is actually refusing

to get the vaccine consciously and and and and by choice okay so this is what's going on

and yet what are we here we are Dr. Fauci saying yesterday no one should ever shake hands again

we hear you know because the man cannot shut his yapper he's interviewed six hours a day and he

needs to keep himself entertained so he says a lot of crap that he shouldn't say that he has no

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