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Originally Posted by Azure
But instead, public health and the general public was dogmatic about needing 80%+ overall vaccination rates, because we were tricked and lied into believing that if you got vaccinated, you reduced the risk of spread
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This wasn't really a trick. The vaccines were initially insanely effective. If COVID had stopped mutating and we got 90% of people vaccinated, it would have certainly been eradicated entirely.
It wasn't like this suddenly stopped being true, the vaccine got less and less effective against stopping infection outright, and thus less impactful at stopping spread.
Maybe you disagree about the spot on that gradient that was the right time to change the messaging, but it wouldn't be the first time in human history where the messaging and thinking lagged the current facts on an issue.