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Everybody can rise to the challenge. is it going to be hard work? yes, it is but i know that people can do it. people are understandably worried whether or not they should modify their behaviour. i want you to talk a little bit about what people should and shouldnt do in the next few weeks. should parents not expect to see nativity plays face—to—face? could schools close early? should people pause booking the foreign christmas holiday? we are not changing the guidance on how you should basic...

Vaccine. you have to have a three-dose vaccine, polio is a four dose, tetanuss need every two years or flu vaccine you need to get an annual vaccine. we dont know at this point which category the covid vngs, maybe its a pre-dose vaccine. it doesnt matter, what matters is what we know. which is that every adult in america needs to go get an additional dose at this point if theyre six months out or two months out of johnson&johnson. >> with respect to youll that, im asking a practical question, my...

My employer cnn has a vax mandate, a law firm, has a vax mandate. i had to show my vax card. i will eat at a restaurant likewise during this weekend. at what point does the definition of being fully vacced in any of those contexts mean i not only had my two modernas, i also had my booster, which, by the way, i had last saturday. >> im glad you got your booster. i appreciate the question. i think that we should go that route of changing the definition sooner rather than later. thats because durin...

You, what do you make of how these two candidates have ran their campaigns? has mcauliffe committed any malpractice or has he just fallen victim to the current sway of things? now i think last fallen victim had been more and over calculation. maybe some would say miscalculation. to nationalize this election in a way that you did not see. in new jersey, you just spoke to the governor of new jersey, very different tone, very different contexts. theyre around the issues that are a little bit closer...

Against anyone who provides an abortion, or aids and abets it. and one of the things that even gun rights activists have filed with the supreme court have said is, this enforcement mechanism could be used in other contexts, against laws like gun laws, mask mandates. so on one hand, the justices will decide whether or not this enforcement mechanism can apply in the abortion context. they may be concerns amongst justices on all sides of the ideological spectrum, that this enforcement mechanism cou...

It is bigger than republicans versus democrats. what were seeing here is a challenge to the authoritarian state. parents in loudon county and elsewhere saying no, you dont have control of our children. we have control of our children. whether we talk about education or vaccines, we are seeing what was predicted in books that were written in the 20th century. brave new world, even something like the hunger games, dystopian, where authoritarian states bear down in a heavy-handed way on the freedom...

Biological radar. we are watching it but we do not yet had the measure of whether it poses a major threat. the genetic changes it contains are not new. we had seen around the world in other contexts and they did not seem to paint a particularly bad picture when they appeared in other contexts. will they make a difference in the delta background? we do not think so. that is why people are watching to make sure it is the case. flan people are watching to make sure it is the case-— is the case. c...

Concerns? >> i plan to do that over christmas holiday, visit with elderly grand pashts and all of it made much, much safer because our youngest is now able to be vaccinated and that will add a layer of protection for him as well. look, this is not going to be like last holiday season. its going to be much safer, much better driven in large part by vaccines. >> heidi laid out the degree which this plan involves state and local officials, too, as weve talked about other times in other contexts. th...

Is why does this keep happening. and at the core of that is the concentration of power in the hands of a very small number of individuals -- steve: yes, yes. >> -- who impose their values on the rest of us by the design and scaling of these technologies without any constraint, without transparency and without accountability. steve: exactly. concentrate -- i use that phrase so often in so many contexts about so many policy areas. rob, you can add to that or maybe move into some of the recommendat...

Is why does this keep happening. and at the core of that is the concentration of power in the hands of a very small number of individuals -- steve: yes, yes. >> -- who impose their values on the rest of us by the design and scaling of these technologies without any constraint, without transparency and without accountability. steve: exactly. concentrate -- i use that phrase so often in so many contexts about so many policy areas. rob, you can add to that or maybe move into some of the recommendat...