What I find so persuasive is the combination of a complete lack of nuance, the absence of any informed assessment of the risks and pitfalls of the “No more masks” policy, and the abundance of self-righteousness. 
For real though, here are just a few issues you might have expected the founder of Persuasion to address if he wanted to make a serious effort to, you know, *persuade* people:
The fact that fully vaccinated people have a very low chance of getting sick, but it’s not zero, and more importantly, there’s a chance they might still spread the virus. Which is why many in the medical community are critical of the new guidelines and will continue to wear masks
https://twitter.com/margaret1473/status/1393017946314874897
Or the fact that it’s still unclear how long immunity lasts: It certainly wanes over time, meaning that people who got vaccinated early will, by the fall, likely still have good protection from getting sick, but also exhibit a higher likelihood to spread the virus than right now.
Or the fact that this policy is guaranteed to provide cover for a lot of unvaccinated people who just don’t want to wear masks anymore - resulting in a problematic situation in which no one is able to determine whether or not the unmasked are truly vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1392962022254387201
Or the fact that health authorities in other countries have come to a different conclusion than the CDC (see the example of Germany below), maintaining that it is still important for the fully vaccinated to keep wearing masks indoors. tagesschau.de/inland/bundesr…
Or the fact that this kind of triumphalism rings hollow to parents of young children - are we supposed to say to the little ones: “Tough luck, you’re gonna have to wear a mask, but mommy and daddy do not. Deal with it!“
https://twitter.com/potus/status/1392935847863934987
These are just some of the reasons why it’s absolutely reasonable for fully vaccinated people to come to the conclusion that the mask stays on, for now - but for Mounk, it’s all just “hygiene theater“ and ridiculous attempts to “show our altruism.“
It will never cease to amaze me how unwilling and/or unable the founder of a publication called “Persuasion“ is to actually engage with the position of people with whom he disagrees and who he ostensibly wants to *persuade* on a substantive, serious level.
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