I'm not really that concerned about vaccine mandates. I'll be honest. I think it's just

because we require things like the polio vaccine for public schools. Like it's very, very

basic stuff. Like what is different about this shot from that shot? We know that this is a safe,

effective way to prevent severe illness and death. I'm talking to a mother right now for a

podcast that I'm working on about COVID who lost her 10-year-old daughter. She could not get vaccinated.

The healthy 10-year-old girl died in five or six days. Like this, that outcome is so

atrocious and so repugnant to me. Yeah, I think that at a certain point, people's hesitancy,

it just requires leadership. It requires federal leadership.

I mean, the difference between this vaccine and the polio vaccine, and correctly, if I'm wrong,

is that those vaccines which are required do prevent outbreaks of that disease,

whereas this vaccine, unfortunately, does not. I wish that it did. I'm vaccinated. I advocate for

people to get vaccinated. I don't have any problem with vaccines or vaccination. The decision to get

vaccinated seems to me like a good one for a whole lot of people. I don't have kids. If I had them,

I might vaccinate them. I would certainly talk to a doctor. I think it's the right choice,

probably for a lot of families and a lot of young people, certainly young people with underlying

health conditions. I'm not discouraging vaccination whatsoever. And if it was the case,

that by vaccinating kids at the school, you were going to have a significant less likelihood

of an outbreak of COVID in the school, that would be a pretty compelling, you're right.

And we do require vaccinations for schools. I think that would be a pretty compelling effort

to do that. Early on, when vaccines were coming out, unlike other restrictions, I was more

theoretically at least philosophically okay with a vaccine mandate under certain circumstances,

because we do have a history of requiring constitutionally. It's stood up. Now, I disagreed with

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