flyingaway
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The original 95% was against illness, not against any infection at all. That's how most vaccines work, though most are not scrutinized by the population like this one.
If 100% of the world was vaccinated, of course Covid would still be a thing, but it would be a mild cold-like infection for far FAR more folks than it is currently. A non-hospitalized event. Severe outcomes are dramatically reduced, as are deaths.
That doesn't spell failure to me at all. It spells pretty damn good, and far more than any of us were expecting last summer.
So if the vaccines are 95% effective against illness, what is the percentage of non-vaccinated people against illness? We must look at the IMPROVMMENT that the vaccines have brought against the illness. For that point, I am disappointed about their effectiveness, although I agree that they are useful and I am for the vaccines. However, I thought the pandemic would have been over now with the vaccines. Remember the Spanish flu had three waves, we are now talking about the fourth waves this time.
For full disclosure, I got my 3rd shot three weeks ago.