Hopefully you won’t get in trouble for supporting a mask mandate your company/local government mandated.
I recently came across a YouTube video where they explained why you can't ague with stupid people. Logic, reason and facts are completely useless tools in that situation. There's almost nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Look at Flat-Earthers. No amount of science, math, physics, logic, etc. can get through their heads. Dumb people are going to believe what they want and there's pretty much nothing that can be done about it.
At least we have a vaccine now. That means that we're no longer on equal footing. We're in a situation now where the more intelligent people are getting vaccinated and are more or less safe and it's just the dummies that are getting hit hard. That's a sad situation. But if they can't be talked out of making bad decisions, they're just going to have to suffer bad consequences. Perhaps this is natures way of clearing out the gene pool a little.
I do fault the media for the way they’re treating this. The stories make it seem like vaccinated people are in danger! But then I listened to an interview with an expert physician. They did explain that 99% of people with the vaccine will not have a problem. The interviewer pressed her “doesn’t that mean 1.5 million are in danger?!?!?” and her response was that even of those 1.5 million, almost none of them would have serious symptoms. It was obvious the interviewer was drooling at the idea that there might be a danger to vaccinated people so they would get a sensational story. So the dreaded “breakthrough infections” are of little consequence to the vaccinated, and are much more of a danger to the unvaccinated because it just means there is a larger pool of people they could be infected by.
I do get that there's hyperbole but there's a lot of denial about what is actually happening. Hospitals filling up in the south, Texas and Florida doing everything in their political power to ensure the spread, these things are real. Choosing to put fingers in one's ears does not change it.
The threat to the unvaccinated is very real. Posting clickbait about threat to the vaccinated is dangerous and further discourages the unvaccinated from getting a vaccine… (Why get the shot if vaccinated people are dying too?)
They're also very clear that 99.9% of those vaccinated are not having issues, great incentivisation but most who aren't getting it won't get it either way. I think the biggest driver is the going to be businesses and the market who have had enough of their bullshit.
In response to your first paragraph, the latter is a much larger problem.
Survivorship bias is helluva drug.
