they re doing. but at the pace that the vaccinations are going at right now, it s going to take a number of weeks to get to that 70% goal that the president wanted by july 4th. and even once you get to 70%, obviously, public health experts say that s not a stopping point. you can t end there. that will still leave millions of americans unprotected. they ve thrown the kitchen sink at efforts you can try to deploy. they ve called june the month of action. they had the free beer, free child care, paid time off, the lotteries. they keep going down the line. there s a pop singer at the white house today trying to incentivize people. and week after week, you see the numbers going down and down. i know a lot of public health experts are trying to talk about more of a stick approach like mandates, the frightening m-word that no one want to hear.
articulate that for weeks now. trying to articulate the threat posed by the tilt a variant to the unvaccinated people, particularly young people, as a way to urge him to get vaccinated. when you look at the numbers though in the rate of vaccinations, what they are doing is not working. and you can argue that vaccinations will be slowing even more if it wasn t for what they are doing, but at the pace that the vaccinations are going at right now, it s going to take a number of weeks to get to that 70% goal that the president wanted by july 4th. and even when he had hits that 70% goal, health experts say that that s not the stopping point, you can t just and there, that still leaves millions of americans and protected. they have efforts they can try and deploy, they have called june the month of action, they had the free beer, they had the free childcare, paid time off, they rolled out lotteries, they keep