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>>themgt+(OP)
The main problem here is that Public health agencies are refusing to admit they are / were wrong in certain cases causing all political non sense. The second problem is that public healt official ended relying too much on mandates/enforcements and way too little on propaganda.

For example, it is obvious now that vaccines do not prevent one from getting COVID and spreading COVID. Yes - vaccines definitely make having COVID like a mild fly: I got it just now and I was just a little sick for a couple of days.

But they still claim that vaccines are preventing the spread.

And then the approach is really bad: instead of running “viagra style” commercials on TV for vaccinations they decided to go with heavy handed mandates and requirements. I bet a couple of Steph Curry and Tom Brady commercials about vaccination will do wonder.

>>tlogan+lf1
Here's a study showing vaccine effectiveness against infection in the range of >90% initially, waning to 60-80% after 4 months. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/5/22-0141_article

The fact that vaccines make you less likely to become infected in the first place and also they make the disease shorter means that vaccines also reduce transmission.

>>guelo+Ti1
And they will never publicly (on TV, PBS, etc.) say that. Never - since initially they say it will STOP transmission (not reduce).

Sure they will say “we never said it will stop transmission” but it was never clearly worded as that. Of course, since they wanted mandates.

>>tlogan+Fj1
You've either misunderstood, not paid attention, or are misremembering what was said about vaccines. /biochemist