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It's hard...

The very existence of breakthrough cases are used by the sort of people who don't want the vaccine in a sort of "see, it doesn't even mean I won't get COVID!" sort of mindset. 

But... We know [and have known] this about vaccines. Some people don't take well to them. They're not 100% and haven't been sold as being 100% effective. 

That is WHY we ask everyone to get them... Because if 95% of America gets the vaccine and they're 95% effective, that puts us WELL above the herd immunity threshold where R0 <<<< 1. 

It doesn't mean that COVID magically and immediately goes away, but it should mean that any local outbreaks will be small and not spread widely.

(Note: of course 94's point still holds... We need the rest of the world to do this too. Much like today we have incursions of things like measles from other nations that don't have our vaccine numbers--and those spread due to idiot anti-vaxxers here--we can't globally eradicate COVID unless the rest of the world has very high vaccination rates too. Otherwise we're probably still looking at annual boosters if the protection of the vaccine wanes too much over time.)

The MSM wants us to get vaccinated so bad that they tend to overlook these breakthrough cases

Ive seen very little mention of them

still they are well within acceptable limits so all appears well

This seems like one of the few areas where the MSM don't engage in doomsday panic porn.  I'm not sure why not, but I'm glad they've chosen this path, for this particular issue at least.

I think the Feds COULD have presented a more unified and consistent front early on, but there was a lot of misinformation out there at the time that was pretty scary.

My daughter in France has complained several times about this very issue, in France.

Most of the public message came from Birx and Fauci, as I recall.  There was somebody else who said things at times that were, a bit odd.

Y'all are getting political, and you know it.  I swear you're like a bunch of 5 year olds.


Stop it.

that a good enuff percentage for me

about the same percentage that Nebraska used to win vs Oklahoma State and Kansas St. in the 60s, 70's, 80's and 90's

I still remember what a big deal it was to our resident KSU fans when KSU finally beat NU in '98.  40-30!  And I seem to recall that near the end of the game somebody tackled the NU QB (was it Eric Crouch?) and grabbed his helmet and twisted it so bad it looked like his head was coming off.  Where are those guys these days?  Skicat, WC4E, and a couple more whose names have escaped my fading memory.