Take Off That Mask, If you are fully vaccinated, the time to resume normal life is now.

Right on. This is how we should be framing it, and doing it.

And yet, I fear that—like many of my friends and colleagues—she has, over the past months, become too attached to aspects of hygiene theater that ultimately do more to reassure us or to showcase our altruism than to combat the pandemic.

Combine virtue signaling, hygiene theater, polarization, trauma, and liberals expressing religious feeling for which they have no other outlet, you end up with behaviors that have little or no connection to the reality on the ground or even actual healthfulness.

Going to be that way for a while, I guess.