Most of the population mistakenly believe that the vax is intended to end the pandemic, and once we’re all vaccinated (or reach herd immunity) things go back to normal. We’re told time and time again from the media, message boards like this, SM, even yesterday’s USA Today that we are slowing the return to normalcy by not vaccinating, leading us to believe the vax fights the disease so we can live life again. We were told this same thing from the beginning and it’s not the case. The advent of breakthrough infections led to a change in the narrative.

If you’re correct that the vax only decreases the effects of the disease but doesn’t end it, then the end will only come through herd immunity through population infection, which is the same as what happens with no vax at all, except with weaker symptoms.

The most sure way to prevent future infection from any existing variant is to have been infected in the past. This of course has a .01% chance of risk but the protection is all but guaranteed.

Search these boards for those links to the actual research results.

Also search Healthline, UM school of medicine, Un of Louisville, Washington Un, Johns Hopkins, Cleveland Clinic, Sanford, MIT, Oxford, Qatar, etc. Not the media reports of their research, but scroll down to their own reports of their findings.