"When you finish school to become a doctor and demonstrate you know all of the things you need to know to be a doctor, you get a medical license. It can get suspended if the board that issues them decides they are no longer sure that they can certify you are a good doctor."

"How do you fix that?"

"I talk to some people I know who have a job that involves oversight of the medical board and I ask them to get that license back."

"And then they just do it?"

"They might want me to do something for them in exchange."

"Like what?"

"Get a relative of theirs appointed to somewhere, solve a problem they have, remember later that I owe them a favor."

"What does the owing a favor do? One of the other things but later?"

"Or if I owe them a favor and then join the council it would be reasonable to ask for bigger things like changes to laws or political appointments or intervention in court cases."

"When do people want to use favors to get laws changed instead of arguing about them?"

"If there are details of the laws where the right thing is unclear but one thing will benefit them a lot."

"Oh. ...can I have an example."

"Uh, say we've decided to change the formula we use to tax low-density developments, which we tax because we want to encourage people to build densely. We're sure that changing it is a good idea, but we don't have evidence specific enough to decide if the tax rate should be twelve percent or fourteen percent, someone might say 'in my neighborhood make it be twelve'."

"Oh, okay."

"This way there will not be problems enrolling you in school or anything."

"Why would there be problems with that?"

"If you had not gotten your vaccinations that would be a problem. But now it will look like you did."

"Why is that a problem for school?"

"Well, it would be a problem as soon as anyone noticed but unless something unusual happened school would be the point when they noticed."

"...but why do people care if I am vaccinated."

"Because vaccination reduces disease spread."

"I know what it is."

"Then what are you confused about?"

"Why do other people care if I get sick?"

"Because sickness spreads from person to person."