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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
Here's a study showing that the duration of Omicron BA.1 infection (time from PCR+ to PCR-) is actually longer for vaccinated persons than for the unvaccinated. The time for PCR+ to a negative culture is actually longer for boosted subjects than for unvaccinated.

"Duration of Shedding of Culturable Virus in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (BA.1) Infection" (see "Figure 1. Viral Decay and Time to Negative Viral Culture."): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2202092