Alito pointed out in the oral arguments in January ‘22 that the rule was stating it was intended to protect the UNvaccinated from the vaccinated , or other unvaccinated, which is definitely not the way the press tried to misinform the public at the time. The Harris and Biden disinformation mythology about the total protection vaccines provided was just beginning to evolve at that point, and of course that original disinformation is holy writ in the minds of most Harris voters, no doubt.
the thing is though that vaccines never did protect the unvaccinated, nor the vaccinated from gettign covid
The sick and elderly with comorbidities who were all vaccinated practically (Those in nursing homes were mandated to get the vaccinations), still got covid and died- and they likely got their covid from the staff who were also mandated to get the vaccine, and who were mandated to wear masks-
in the case of cuomo though in ny- he intentionally send sick covid patients from hospitals into nursing homes, without segregating them, knowing full well it woudl result in many more deaths of the vulnerable- IF he didn’t know, then he was the most inept ‘leader’ ever-
Kids were mandated to get vaccines in order to attend schools- and the excuse was that they might get covid and then pass it along to the sick and elderly outside of schools who might then die from it- Yet from every report i read while covid was going on, covid had no higher a risk factor for dying than other flues- The chance of surviving if old was something like 99.4% or so- flue was right aroudn the same i believe-
The sick and elderly die every year from regular flu- because they have 4 or more comorbidities, and can’t cope- but that is no reason to mandate that everyone else be vaccinated- there are steps that can be taken to cut down on the deaths of the comorbid patients -