I hear you, but I think principles are getting a lot of people killed. Maybe not as much as ignorance, but it's certainly not nothing.
We are never going to be able to be carefree again, thanks to freedom.
Delta doesn't seem to be a huge killer of vaccinated people, but at this rate, there will be plenty more mutations, and the new ones may not be as tame. I think we're going to be in a worse place this time next year because people are ignorant or too stupid to follow a logical argument, republicans are brainwashed, and libertarians are too dug in or too selfish to see that "Do what thou wilt without harming anyone else" doesn't really apply to this scenario unless you don't leave you house.