Security Theater

This guy's convinced me masks are pointless now.

He makes an incredible point about the philosophical debate of personal responsibility vs. obligation to others, the dynamic of which so much of our public policy debate hinges. But here, with vaccines, we have almost a perfect real world example where we ought to have basically zero obligation to protect those who refuse vaccines from the virus because they choose not to protect themselves.

And he makes an interesting case for why partisanship in the US is actually good -- because reveals through hatred and dichotomy, the flaws of both sides. Ideal world, in other words, is one with no masks, no security theater, no safetyism, but a lot of private and public incentives to vaccinate. 

On a separate note, the vaccine rollout somewhat confirms my preexisting concern that 20-25% of the population is too stupid to make even semi-optimal decisions for themselves (and much less others) and I have no idea what do about that fact given we live in a liberal democracy.