I don't see a problem. The virus is with us forever. The vaccine prevents us from getting hospitalized and then possibly dying. But it does not percent us from getting infected.
It doesn’t prevent anyone from being hospitalized or dying either.
There have been too many reports of breakthrough cases where those very things are happening.
Data from Israel shows that the Pfizer vaccine blocks 94% of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections and 97% of symptomatic infections. (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/pfizer-covid-vaccine-blocks-94percent-of-asymptomatic-infections-and-97percent-of-symptomatic-cases-in-israeli-study.html)
So yes, it does block infection. But like every vaccine, it does not do so perfectly. The smallpox vaccine is 95% effective. The whooping cough vaccine is about 80% effective. If Pfizer blocks 97% of COVID-19 infections, that means 3% get through (for various reasons, mostly compromised immune systems). 3% of the US population is 10 million and 6% is 20 million. But that leaves 320 million who would be spared symptomatic COVID-19 and 310 million spared any COVID-19 at all. Those numbers aren’t exact to our situation because infections have already happened in a lot of people, but it gives an idea of how that 3% scales when you apply it to large populations.
Breakthrough cases are fully expected. In fact, they’ve been lower than expected so far, which is good news.
Indeed, and the flu will be with us forever, by logic. As such, why call it a vaccine. I mean gee, when peeps get a flu shot, its not called a vaccine, it’s a shot, right?
The idiocy of all this COVID *shit will be with us ‘forever’ too...../s