Former president Barack Obama turns 60 years old and celebrates in maskless fashion.

We examine the numbers on who wants to return to normal and the vaccine mandates are coming.

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Alrighty. So, happy birthday to Obama. He's the only person who gets to have a really big birthday

party. Now listen, here's my feeling about birthday parties or parties of any sort at this point.

It's a free country to what you want. I myself would be happy to have a birthday party

for my wife, for any of my relatives, maskless. As you know, I don't care. My feeling at this point

is that every adult in the United States, every person in the United States above the age of 12,

has had the ability to get the vaccine. Once you've had the vaccine, your chances of dying from

COVID-19 drop down to very close to zero.

If you get a breakthrough of the Delta variant and you're vaccinated, the high likelihood is that

you're going to end up with a mild cold.

And thus, if there's a party and somebody shows up to unvaccinated and that person gets

infected by a vaccinated person, that one is on them.

So on a pure principled level, I don't care whether Barack Obama has a maskless party.

But, but the entire democratic infrastructure has decided that for the sake of being a good

American, you must mask up.

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