ver versus the carrot and stick approach? we re excited about what we re seeing on the vaccination front. the last two weeks, we vaccinated two times more people than the two weeks before. we think the incentives do work. it s really hard to calculate exactly how much because we have falling and falling vaccinations. we announced our shot in a million and free higher education for those lottery winners and it stabilized. now we see it increasing. but i think what s really driving vaccinations is getting out real information about the seriousness of the delta variant. and what s really stopping vaccinations is misinformation that kills people. there s two types of m misinformation. one, it either down plays the delta variant or lies about vaccines being harmful to you, but the second is just sewing enough division and enough doubt. that s people being unwilling to follow steps that are out there. people being unwilling to do
this is somebody who exmains to you what the website is, how to fipd it, what to buy there, what the different products look like. and it feels kind of like book banning. like you just aren t allowed to have access to information and that sort of campaign of m misinformation is far more dangerous to the overall fabric of what the country is even than any given sort of political battle over policy. you know, we re at each point that we go through, the obama care fight, there s this idea of like we re going to turn the co corner, it s going to be so successful. get it passed. do you have moments of quiet, dark doubt as a scholar of political science? as a person who supports health care for people? is this thing, are we going to turn that corner? the fact is it s a complicated law. every time i sort of engage especially on the show or readiread ing about it, i keep thinking why don t we have universal