need to do if we had been able to get vaccines accepted by people this have still had trouble seeing why they would want them. i m sorry if it has to go this direction of becoming more heavy handed. do we want to lose 100,000 lives that don t have to be lost? feels like this is the moment to do that. neil: all right. a lot of you have been e-mailing me and texting me on the comments from dr. collins. you don t agree. many of you say it shouldn t be forced down people s throats. mandates are bad. even though the improvement we ve seen, it s not worth it. slippery slope. doctor, he said that he s not a big fan of mandating anything, but if it brings the case count down, all good. what do you say? it is true that mandates
the memorial day weekend, not to match 2019 when it was more than 12 million but during the pandemic holiday one year ago, things are back to normal, people are started to traveling this is why, the covid case map, all that green, 34 states going down, seven states going down dramatically. 41 in all going down. three states in orange. the rest, five states holding steady. look at it this way as well. not since march 2020, have we been below 20,000 in terms of averaging new covid cases, the monday number, 17,000 pushing that down is one of the reasons america is reopening, people are allowed to get out. how does that happen? the vaccine rollout is a big part of it. this is as of sunday, because yesterday was a holiday, and no new numbers but 41% of americans, 135 million fully vaccinated. 50% of the country, 167 plus par lshl i vaccinated, the vaccine rollout driving this, case count down, which is why things are