Three Questions: Pay People to Get Covid-19 Vaccines? What Happened to Ticker Tape Parades? Is America Thinking Enough About War?

<p>The Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p>When I was a child, doctors giving vaccine shots used to hand out candy or a little toy to take the sting and fear out of the shot. A similar idea could rescue the U.S. economy when one or more COVID vaccines are approved by the FDA and widely available for mass uptake... … ...</p> <p>The “adult” version of the doctor handing out candy to children, fortunately, points toward a solution: <em>pay people who get the shot....</em></p> <p>How much? I know of no hard science that can answer that question, but my strong hunch is that anything less than $1,000 per person won’t do the trick. At that level, a family of four would get $4,000 (ideally not subject to income tax) – a lot of money to a lot of families in these difficult times, and thus enough to assure that the country crosses the 80 percent vaccination threshold.</p> <p><br></p> <p>This paragraph comes from The Brookings Institute. &nbsp;The article is titled: "Want Herd Immunity? &nbsp;Pay people to take the vaccine." &nbsp;The article is written by Robert E. Litan. &nbsp;https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/want-herd-immunity-pay-people-to-take-the-vaccine/</p> <p><br></p> <p>&nbsp;Zac and Don discuss whether paying people to get the Covid-19 vaccine is a good idea.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Another Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p>We used to have a lot of ticker-tape parades. The most famous was perhaps the Victory Parade of World War II but we used to have many parades to celebrate technological and cultural milestones. There were huge celebrations, for example, when the final spike of the transcontinental railroad was nailed, when the Brooklyn Bridge was completed, and the Statute of Liberty dedicated. In the 1920s and 1930s there were big celebrations for aviation pioneers including for Charles Lindburgh, Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes and that tradition continued in the 1960s and 1970s with multiple parades for the astronauts:</p> <p>During the early space program, there were also several NYC ticker-tape parades for astr