Yes, it does.

> This seems especially true with Omicron and the spread through vaccinated air travellers.

Nobody knows yet. We don't have enough data. Anyone who says something definitive about Omicron is either basing it off of a small amount of early data, or is lying to you. Things like infection rate, hospitalization and death are all lagging indicators. We do not have enough data to make such assertions yet.

> It encourages mutating variants to escape/prevail because it reduces severity so you are more likely to function socially and keep spreading it.

This we agree on - which is why vaccination is so important. It does reduce spread. Not sure where you got the idea it does not.

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E (to the person who responded to me): Your response was flagged and dead before I even came back to look, so it wasn't me. Nice try calling me "cowardly" though.

The vaccine does reduce spread of the virus(es) it is made for. That statement had little to do with omicron.

My second point about assertions still stands. I don't think my comment was that hard to decipher, and certainly didn't warrant calling me names.

Being purposefully obtuse about relatively simple concepts is generally not well received on HN. Perhaps that's why you were immediately flagged.