gillooly: so that's why they wanted to buy it up? so they had... clea tuckson: that's why they did buy it up. gillooly: okay. tuckson: oh, yeah, they own the airport, they own all this, too. the city of st. louis owns kinloch, in a sense. will: that just, that decimated the town, you know? it just, it killed everything. and they really didn't use all the land, they just... you know, the population went from, like... i want to say it was about 10,000 people, all the way to, like, 200 or 300. and it's never been the same. joseph wells: i was mayor when they first started buying it out. all the damage was done, you know. you didn't have nowhere to expand, so you was locked in, and that kills any city. it don't make no difference who it is or what city it is. you don't have no extra land and you're locked in all around, ferguson on one side and berkeley on three sides, you know. so kinloch was doomed from the beginning, but... 25 or 30 years ago, when i was the mayor, they had already designated kinloch to be cleared out for the airport. (airplane pass

their sense of identity is tied to the story of america gillooly being the shining light on the hill.ing the place where anybody can make it if they work hard enough. once that version of the american story is revealed to be untrue or half-truth, only part of the story think a lot of people begin to experience that not only as a threat to america they believed in but as a threat to who they understand themselves to be. and not only becomes an inconvenience need to re- affect history it's ann existenial crisis. because how you understand yourself to be as inherentlyto tied to the story of america that millions of people are telling you now is not necessarily true but i think that's part of what we see as a result of that which has happened at every moment of black progress throughout the history of the country is now their state sanctioned efforts throughout the country to prevent teachers from teaching the very history that explains why the country looks though it does today. i think part of what we are seeing people not only fearing a loss of material loss but also a loss of their id

when the vaccines came, sweden did and asked gillooly -- and absolutely exceptional job in prioritizingolder people first. when you know that older people have a much higher risk of dying from getting sick and the vaccines protect against you from dying after getting sick the biggest benefit will come from vaccinating old people. they did that. there was a case of a young fortyish swedish government employee who skip the line. he lost his job because he skip a line to get the vaccine to early. this is fantastic. you can see the benefit of it. when the third wave hit in the spring of 2021 there was an enormous wave of cases in sweden , but many fewer deaths than expected if you had a lesson vaccinated population. there is a printable -- principal focus and protection, decouples the cases of deaths and negative consequent as of the disease. that is franco the best you can do given the technologies we have -- frankly the best you can do given the technologies we have. the other thing sweden did right is it maintained the public trust people had in public health. sweden is one of the few co