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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Tuesday, April 13th, 2021. I am John Bauthor. It's the editor of Commentary

Magazine with me as always executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

Hi John. Associate editor, Noah Rothman. Hi Noah.

Hi John.

And joining us today in the stead of the absent Christine Rosen, we have commentary, tech columnist.

James B. Megs. Hi Jim.

Hi. Good to be here.

We did not plan it this way, but one of your signature issues that you've been writing

about for the magazine on an almost monthly basis in the ins and outs of everything that

you write about, which is let's call it misestimation of risk as a general governing rule that

is making life harder in America at every past due to institutions and authorities warning

us about things that they don't need to warn us about or misestimating risk in their

own case. We have a huge example of it today based on obviously none of us is either a doctor

or an epidemiologist, but we are rational thinking creatures who can read numbers the

way anybody else can read numbers even if we got six tens on our SAT math, not mentioning

any of my own names, which is that the CDC and one other agency, I'm sorry camera, the FDA,

the CDC have announced a pause in the vaccinations with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which by

the way is a different kind of vaccine from Pfizer and Moderna, Pfizer and Moderna are these

mRNA vaccines. And Johnson and Johnson is a more conventional vaccine that gives you a tiny

bit of the disease in order to stimulate the antibody production. That's like a classic

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