Opinion

If TSA agents won’t get jabbed, why not re-examine the whole ridiculous show?

Heading home for the holidays? Prepare for massive security delays, thanks to a coming shortage of TSA agents.

Only 40 percent of Transportation Security Administration workers are vaccinated, ahead of the looming deadline for all federal workers to be vaccinated — Nov. 22, just three days before Thanksgiving.

“This is shaping up to be a miserable Thanksgiving holiday . . . for airline passengers,” industry analyst Henry Harteveldt warned The Post. “Prepare for doomsday and be pleasantly surprised if it’s better than that.”

With most COVID restrictions ended, 52 percent of Americans plan to travel over Turkey Day, up from the normal 33 percent, according to a recent survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers. And 40 percent of travelers intend to fly.

Fine, the TSA is looking at a contingency plan, with managers filling unvaccinated agents’ shifts, but that’s plainly not enough to replace up to 60 percent of the frontline workforce.

Sen. Chuck Schumer suggests solving the issue with dogs. Right.

After two decades of America taking off its shoes and getting felt up; after endless tests wherein agents fail to spot knives and explosives; after (per the Government Accountability Office) at least 16 people involved in terrorist plots have flown dozens of US flights with the TSA stopping not a one . . . How about a re-examination of the whole TSA dog-and-pony show?

Israel does the same job far differently, and faster — by focusing on suspicious passengers and behavior. It’s long past time for America to rethink this security theater.