There will be a high price to pay for pandemic theater. In the immediate term because the theater does not work and effective actions are ignored and in the long term because the ineffective actions are also harmful.
That said, most polls show a majority of Americans support mask mandates. [1]
I don't think the future is necessarily an analogy of post-9/11 security theater.
1. Fox, Gallup, others generally agree: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/fox-news-poll-mask-vacc...
Every time anyone wants to get on an airplane,they're forced to take a nude selfie. And if there's a blip, a government employee will...well, let's just say any private business would get sued six ways to Sunday for sexual harassment.
Osama bin Laden's been dead for years, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are over.
Everybody just accepts it.
A high price to pay, in both (1) the TSA's budget, and (2) the fact that Americans just don't care about this infringement on freedom and privacy. When was the last time you saw disbanding the TSA suggested in any political debate from a candidate of either party?
So all the stuff about mask mandates, vaccine passports, and so on -- that stuff, once implemented, will never go away.
The September 11 response has taught me that the government will take your freedom in a crisis, but they'll never give it back.
It's when the compulsion to have government to fix the crisis seems most reasonable that we should be most unreasonably insistent on keeping our freedom.
Why are you not upset at the other group members who are not carrying their part of the workload? Unless we can remove them from society, the decisions have to be made including their behaviors and risk factors.
Do you really want to round up and kill anyone that doesn't comply with what you deem to be what they should do?
And no, obviously I don't think people should be rounded up and killed for not complying. But you are also aware your comment was not in good faith and not intended to advance the conversation, so the less said about your second paragraph the better.
And no, it doesn't compare to drunk driving... Why, because the vaccinated still carry and transmit COVID, so that effectively means that everyone who goes outside is in your mind doing the same thing as drunk driving.
The risks from C19 go beyond infecting other people. The only way to claim individuality would be if the unvaccinated were willing to bear the cost of hospitalization as well as accept lowest priority for health care. And if optional surgeries, like knee replacements, weren’t put aside to give care to someone unvaccinated.
That’s the problem with saying we all make our own choices and are “independent”. The reality is we are so interconnected that sometimes people can’t get their own way when required to protect the broader group.
Also, if you are breathing, you can be a carrier for COVID. Are you saying you don't go outside among other people?
Beyond this, you specifically a few reptiles back are calling for mass incarceration. It's not okay, the drunk driving analogy is a false equivalence that applies to the vaccinated as well as unvaccinated.
UK is already completely dropping all restrictions. CDC finally recognizes natural immunity. Nearly everyone in the US has either been vaccinated or has COVID. All further restrictions, vaccine mandates or vaccine passports are FUD and anti science.
This is definitely different than my view of what society should be. Other people don't know my priorities, and should not be able to dictate them to me. A representative government (not experts) is some proxy for people's overall priorities, and strong constitutional limits on government power should ensure that democracy doesn't devolve to "two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner". "Experts" should be a data point, and have no direct control over what people can do
There has been a myopic focus on vaccines and they have performed by any estimation terribly. Any questioning this no matter how qualified are instantly demonized as anti-science. How many lives could have been saved if all options were on the table? Instead we see censorship on a level most of us never even thought possible.
https://www.pmda.go.jp/english/about-pmda/0002.html
If you imply ivermectin has some part in japans strategy, I encourage you to read this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/27/no-ivermect...
I don't think any of the theater politicians will pay. Pelosi got more flack for presumed insider trading recently than ever saw for the mask theater.