“Unless of course the vaccines aren’t really helping...”
It may be that the bulk of the people who have not yet had COVID (and a good chunk of those who have) might have to get their case - vaccinated or not.
If that is the situation, there would be a lot of fuel left for Omicron to flare through - about half the population.
It does seem that the vaccines reduce severity/hospitalization/death significantly, but not so much protection from infection or transmission of Delta or Omicron.
If vaccination and prior infections don’t seem to slow Omicron much, I wonder if getting Omicron will affect delta or some other variant much...