Mandatory Vaccinations and the Big Freeze in Texas
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Should businesses require their employees to get vaccinated before they can return to work? Rebecca , Mihir , Rawi , and Felix debate the pros and cons of mandatory vaccinations. They also discuss why the energy market in Texas failed during a recent winter storm and how best to encourage investments in infrastructure resilience.
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| 0:43.0 | Hello everyone. You're listening to After Hours. I'm Felix. I'm Rowie. I'm Rebecca. I'm me here. |
| 0:49.0 | Hi guys. Hi everyone. Hey. You know, things are starting to feel a little more optimistic. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, there's slide at the end of the tunnel for sure. And sometimes there's some outside. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, absolutely. So I'm curious actually, once you can go outside, meet people, |
| 1:07.0 | meet your friends, what are some of the first things that you're going to do? |
| 1:11.0 | I want to go dancing. I want to go dancing in the worst way. I want to be in a big |
| 1:18.0 | room full of people, loud music, and just letting rip, and partner dancing, |
| 1:25.0 | and line dancing, and rock dancing. I don't care what kind of dancing. I just want to be dancing. |
| 1:30.0 | And that's line dancing. Now that I wasn't expecting Rebecca. How about you, Robbie? |
| 1:35.0 | You know, I'm thinking hugs. Yeah. Basically hugs. How about you, me here? |
| 1:40.0 | So yeah, I mean, I think I'm with Rebecca a little bit, which is like live music and |
| 1:44.0 | concerts. I think I realize now how much I underused those things pre-COVID. |
| 1:50.0 | But I've been missing it and would love to go back to going to a show and seeing an artist |
| 1:54.0 | in a club or any kind of a place. Just live music would be fantastic. |
| 1:59.0 | And if you know, dancing and hugs broke out, that'll be just fine with me. I think, great. |
| 2:03.0 | Yeah, concerts are definitely at the top of my list as well. I've tried some of these on Zoom, |
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