You are still stuck arguing about Covid Part 6 of infinite (Part 7)

[Cheasty]

@Horsebox

The mental gymnastics and outright lies some people tell themselves to convince them they are right is fascinating to behold.

That post seems dishonest and lacking in context. A CDC study from December 2020 to March 2021 showed the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were around 90% effective at preventing infection, and it was quite legitimate to highlight this. However this was very early in the vaccination time frame and the CDC itself was careful to caution against premature over-optimism. Walensky’s comments were a clear simplification for a non-scientific audience.

CDC: Real-world data shows Pfizer's and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines are 90%...

If you look at what the best poster on Covid, @Cheasty said in May 2021, it was eminent common sense.

If you want to blame somebody for “fooling the public”, blame @TheUlteriorMotive, who claimed without evidence that vaccines were 100% effective against transmission.

@Cheasty

It seems to me that vaccines are broadly effective in that they will largely prevent serious symptoms, and are likely to significantly inhibit transmission, but that’s a different thing altogether to what you claimed - that they are 100% effective at stopping contraction and transmission. My reading is that we still don’t know for sure exactly how effective vaccines are stopping contraction, never mind transmission, and we probably won’t know that for a while.

Vaccines are great but they aren’t foolproof and rely on critical mass being achieved at a population level to achieve maximum effect.