Yep. Wear a useless mask. Stand a useless 6 feet apart. Get a useless jab. Etc.
Most people reflexively do whatever an "authority" figure tells them to do, few, or no, questions asked.
Ask the folks who shuffled onto the trains to Auschwitz, ask people who drank Jim Jones' special Kool-Aid, how well that authority compliance reflex, coupled with a good dose of Normalcy Bias," worked out for almost all of them.
One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...