As I wrote in Tuesday’s post, “‘Back to Normal’ isn’t a thing,” there’s a bit of a raging debate in the discourse about what “we” should say people ought to feel free to do after they get a COVID-19 vaccine.

David Leonhardt kicked this into high gear on February 19 with a column arguing that public health messaging about the vaccines has been bad, particularly in terms of not going far enough to tell people they can ease up and party if they get vaccinated.