I think this is exactly right. It isn't a question of hoping to return to normal life but, once the sort of moral obligation that kept me from the things I like -- friends, running to the store for stupid things, restaurants, clam-digging on the strand with the great hacking rubber-clad horde, bonking -- has been assuaged, actually doing so. I will coof boldly from within my pfizer-armored fortress, exhaling great plumes of frustrated virus hither and thither upon the breeze without the slightest pang of guilt, given my license to not care about protecting people who have not bothered to protect themselves by the simplest expediency.
I'm already protected. I have as much protection against this particular form of the flu as I do any other. That is to say a healthy immune system and complete disregard for germs. I'm encouraging people to get vaccinated so that I can stop worrying about catching it and making somebody else sick.
If I were in charge, I would tell the people that you have a month to get your vaccine shot. After that, we open things up completely. If you are unvaccinated and get sick, you are behind the 95 year old almost dead woman when it comes to hospital beds.
And I still would not get it. But it might convince some of the fence sitters- and it would clear my conscience as everybody has had the opportunity and if you are not vaccinated, it is because you turned it down. And the risks (an open society without masks and distancing) were clearly spelled out.
I, too shall cough a great plume of death and destruction without a second thought.