Originally Posted by
rickair7777
"Fully vaccinated" doesn't mean they're all vaccinated, just that they all acquired a 2"x4" piece of cardstock and an inkjet printer.
But it's apparent that the vaccines don't work as well at preventing the variants. They do however largely still prevent serious outcomes, that mattered during delta but omicron may be the end of this thing anyway.
Yeah, but it’s increasingly obvious that the whole idea of immunization for the purpose of herd immunity from infection, even for the alpha strain, really didn’t work. In that respect the mRNA immunizations worked about the same as many veterinary coronavirus immunizations, decreasing the pathogenicity of the illness but not really interrupting transmission all that well or for all that long. And yeah, for the later variants, doing an even poorer job of decreasing transmission.