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> And yet, the vaccine doesn't keep you from getting the disease, nor does it keep you from spreading the disease.

Binary yes/no statements like this are basically disinformation. COVID vaccines are _neither_ perfect, not useless.

We know that various COVID vaccines are effective, in the range of 60-90% against getting and spreading and being very ill, which is actually very good compared to many other vaccines.

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Wow, the CDC says:

"CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said recent studies had shown that those vaccinated individuals who do become infected with Covid have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others." [1]

Just as much viral load. Really? Effective?

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administr...

"Infected" in this context means symptomatically infected (i.e breakthrough infection). It's an interesting, but unsurprising result that if you have the symptoms of covid you can pass the disease on to other unvaccinated people. And since the disease still has a 14-day incubation period, we only have masking as the practical preventative when we don't know who could suffer a breakthrough infection.

"those who do" being a much, much, much smaller percentage of people, so yes, pretty effective. More than 90% effective, in fact.

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