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On the menu today: A particularly ill-considered metaphor in the effort to persuade vaccine skeptics, why our country’s elites are more comfortable confronting a demand problem than a supply problem, and why a system of “vaccine passports” is probably unworkable.

No, We’re Not in ‘Hand-to-Hand Combat’ on Vaccines

This metaphor, featured high in a front-page story in the New York Times, is probably not the best choice when discussing the effort to persuade the unvaccinated to get their shots:

“If you think of this as a war,” said Michael Carney, the senior vice president for emerging issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, “we’re about to enter the hand-to-hand combat phase of the war.”

Talk that we’re hitting the “demand wall” is more common than the evidence that we’re actually hitting a demand wall. We’re still averaging 3 million doses administered a day. ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY April 22 2021
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We’re Not in ‘Hand-to-Hand Combat’ on Vaccines

On the menu today: A particularly ill-considered metaphor in the effort to persuade vaccine skeptics, why our country’s elites are more comfortable confronting a demand problem than a supply problem, and why a system of “vaccine passports” is probably unworkable.

No, We’re Not in ‘Hand-to-Hand Combat’ on Vaccines

This metaphor, featured high in a front-page story in the New York Times, is probably not the best choice when discussing the effort to persuade the unvaccinated to get their shots:

“If you think of this as a war,” said Michael Carney, the senior vice president for emerging issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, “we’re about to enter the hand-to-hand combat phase of the war.”

Talk that we’re hitting the “demand wall” is more common than the evidence that we’re actually hitting a demand wall. We’re still averaging 3 million doses administered a day. ...   READ MORE

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