for more on why covid prevention has failed in the united states, we welcome lawrence brown, a professorhealth, policy, and management -- of health policy and management. seeing these record numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, i think the question that people are asking is why are americans still hesitant to wear masks? >> some of it is that example on the part of the president. it has become a symbol of liberty and freedom and resistance, i don't wear a mask because nobody tells me what to do. there is also portions of the population, they say the young invincibles, people think it is a more severe version of the flu, so if i get it, i will survive, and they probably will, but to many other people, even if they are lacking in symptoms themselves -- so joe biden is proposing, he can't mandate, he can't do a national mandate requiring people to wear masks and even if he tried to, it would cause great antagonism, but he said he will ask the american people, encourage them to wear masks for 100 days after he takes office and the hope is that that will bring about some decline in

john brown, is just appalled at the fact that proslavery forces seem to be rolling right over, physically by violence, rolling over the antislavery side. and following the destruction of lawrence, kansas john brown concludes that he needs to take strong action to send a message to the proslavery side. and so he gathers, two of his sons, and three other men and in the dark of one night they descend upon a proslavery settlement on pottawatomie creek. and they drag five men, proslavery settlers, from their beds and just outside the cabins where they are living, they hacked them to death with broad swords. and they leave the mangled bodies and they ride off into the night. and john brown his.was to let the proslavery side realize if you try to use force in kansas, we will use more force against you. >> this becomes known as the pottawatomie massacre on pottawatomie creek. this was brutal, men drug out of their beds with wives screaming and sons begging for their lives. hearing the murders of their fathers, it really is horrible and it incites this call for war. and brown never quite admits to the crime, by now he is famous and infamous and he's a wanted man. and he and his militia

and john brown is just appalled at the fact the proslavery forces seem to be rolling right over physically by violence, rolling over the anti-slavery side and following the instructional lawrence, kansas, john brown concludes he needs to take strong action to send a message to the proslavery side and so he gathers his sons and three of the men into the dark of one night they descend upon a pro slavery settlement on pottawatomie creek and they drag five men, proslavery settlers from their bed, and just outside the cabins where they are living they hack them to death with broadsword and leave the mangled bodies and ride off into the night and john brown's point was to let the proslavery side realize if you try to use force in kansas we will use more force against you. >> this becomes known as the pottawatomie massacre, a brutal crime, men dragged out of their beds with wives screaming and sons begging for their lives, hearing the murders of their fathers, it really is horrible and brown never quite admits to the crime but by now he is famous and infamous it is a wanted man and he and his militia of kansas regulars are joined at different times by reporters from the new york trib

against lawrence kansas and then the idea was to make kansas unfriendly or downright dangerous. >> so john brown a very interesting character and by this time a big strapping young man almost as committed to the anti- slavery of john brown himself. so they will not initially take up arms in opposition to slavery is a you should come join us and john brown does but he is increasingly distressed at the failure of the antislavery movement to frustrate the proslavery forces. and rolling over the antislavery site and john brown concludes needs to take strong action to send a message to the proslavery side so he gathers with his son and three other men and in the dark of night they dissent upon a proslavery government on pottawatomie creek. and they hack them to death a ride off into the night and it was to let the proslavery side realize. >> it is become known as the pottawatomie massacre and the sons were begging for their lives so this is a pro abolitionist to get the extemporaneous look how does he characterize them and what does that do. >> before he becomes not much success and that he had been

lawrence kansas and they omitted what was called a sack of kansas, they basically destroyed the community and the idea was to make kansas unfriendly, downright hostile, dangerous to free state settlers. this is where john brown comes in. >> he rounds up his party of sons and a few others. >> exactly, so john brown is an interesting character. he had 20 children and by this time five of his sons were adults, big strapping young men . almost as committed to the antislavery cause as john brown himselfand so they decide , the sons actually go first and they are going to say well, they're not initially going to take up arms but they're going to take up space in opposition to slavery and they get there and they say, they ride home and say father you should join us and john brown does john brown is increasingly distressed at the failure of the anti-slavery movement or the abolitionist movement to actually frustrate the proslavery forces and john brown is just appalled at the fact that the proslavery forces seem to be rolling right over, physically by violent rolling over the advice on this is working kansas john brown needs strong action to send a message proslavery side so gathers his sons and three other men and