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I did not say that the vaccines are not working. I was just saying that they are not as good as I expected, i.e., completely stop infections. I have no problem with the vaccines and I am fully vaccinated if that matters.
Two things:
First, only a small percent of people under 50 have been vaccinated. So it's still early days. Another 2 months should get us down only to those who decline to get vaccinated, and those under 18 (or 16, or whatever).
Second, the vaccines them selves have never purposed to completely stop infection. They do, however, claim to stop illness, most importantly, severe illness, hospitalization, and death. That is what we were told to expect when the vaccines were launched. If you expected something else, I'm not clear as to why.
And that second part is certainly playing out in the data, and the reason the OP created this thread. Deaths are dropping, a lot, which was kind of the whole point.