why? why are these people on ventilators saying, can i take the vaccine now? why are they yelling at icu nurses and doctors as they try to sedate them and make them comfortable before intubating them? why? how does it happen? this piece of reporting does as good a job of anything i ve seen at explaining how we got here. well, at the end of the day, it s a very interesting piece of reporting. i think that offers a great deal of insight to this moment in time, but this rupture in the country is not a new rupture. the construction workers versus the hippie college students in 1971 rioting and fighting in new york city. we have had, in this country, since 1965, when the first troops went ashore, combat troops, regular army troops, marines in danang in the vietnam war, poor blacks, poor whites, hispanics are the ones who are