Dan, can I start by asking you to describe the picture that accompanied your story?

I shouldn't be laughing.

Dan Diamond is a reporter at the Washington Post.

It was a gentleman at the conservative political action conference in February wearing a mask,

not a normal mask of fishnet stocking mask. You could see his mouth, you could see his cheeks

through this mask, it was clearly mocking the need for wearing protection during the pandemic.

Part of what's so jarring about this picture is that the guy looks like he's about to take a break

from the conference to go golfing. He's wearing a lanyard with a name tag on it, a polo shirt,

and then that black fishnet on his face. Yeah, the kind of mask you wear when you want people to

know that you think coronavirus is a big joke. Why was it the perfect image for your story?

It sums up that for a lot of Americans, this pandemic is still a joke, it's still overblown in

their minds, something that we don't need to protect ourselves from. Right now, the best protection

against this virus is a vaccine, and it turns out the people who are most staunchly against the shot

are people like this guy in the fishnet, white, and Republican. The funny thing to me is that

a few months back, I feel like we were talking a lot about vaccine hesitancy, but in the context

of very different groups of people, we were mostly talking about people of color.

Yes, for sure. There were real concerns for real reasons about getting vaccines into communities of color.

But what has happened in the past few months is concerted focus on reaching those populations

and less attention paid to all the Republicans who still say, and even more now say that they don't

want the vaccine even as it's rolling out. Today on the show, Dan went to talk to some of these

Republicans to try to figure out what kinds of messages might reach them. The question now is

whether those messages will reach them in time. I'm Mary Harris, you're listening to what next.

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