We're long past the point where "educating people" is going to help. The people left who still refuse to mask up are not doing it because of lack of education, and it's time to publicly shame them for their selfishness and arrogance, just like we shame drunk drivers or litterers.
I'm really, honestly trying my best to have a reasoned discussion about this! But I don't know where the misunderstanding is, somehow I'm looking at the same numbers for breakthrough infections as you are, and I'm seeing a very different story.
To be clear, I wore a mask religiously for 15 months, and got vaccinated as soon as I could.
Since you could have transmitted potentially deadly diseases to immunocompromised people before COVID, you have definitely worn a mask everywhere in public for your whole life, right? That’s the only way you have any sort of moral high ground.
If the answer is “no”, then we are just quibbling over what constitutes an acceptable loss of life. Because you are culpable.
Public shaming works best if the people being shamed care about the regard of those doing the shaming. It works very poorly when the topic is polarized and the shaming can be easily brushed off. The more hyperbolic and over the top you make this shaming, the easier it is to brush off.
