I agree, it's deadly. So I hope you are just genuinely misinformed, because after 2 years I don't have the energy to engage in these discussions anymore.
There's no studies for Omicron yet but according to the CDC and the studies they quote, the vaccines did prevent spreading for Alpha Beta and Delta variants.
From the CDCs "Science Brief: COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination":
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
... Studies from multiple countries found significantly reduced likelihood of transmission to household contacts from people infected with SARS-CoV-2 who were previously vaccinated for COVID-19.(171-176)
... However, other studies have shown a more rapid decline in viral RNA and culturable virus in fully vaccinated people (96, 177, 180-182). One study observed that Delta infection in fully vaccinated persons was associated with significantly less transmission to contacts than persons who were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.(181)
... Together, these studies suggest that vaccinated people who become infected with Delta have potential to be less infectious than infected unvaccinated people.
You mean the one that's about Smallpox? No, I imagine the article about Smallpox that was written before the pandemic doesn't talk much about Covid.
Taken as a whole that would be the same as saying 'reduce'.
you read it as "Vaccines always prevent infection and spreading".
Would you agree seatbelts frequently prevent deaths and major injuries?
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
A vaccine that fails to totally prevent transmission can of course still be reducing transmission (and this is likely the case with COVID).
Indeed, but wrongly. "Sterilizing immunity" is a myth, even including historical vaccines [1].
> It is the only rationale for vaccination mandates that are being rolled out all over the world.
Nope, the rationale behind the vaccination mandates is to prevent the medical system (or, in case of enough infections, society itself) from being overloaded. When the entire staff of a power plant, for example, catches Omicron shit gets really hairy really fast.
[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...
The near zero "Sterilizing immunity" should only come as a shock that it is so much lower than usual to medical professionals, especially for a virus which by basic observation over the last 2 years has a high proportion of asymptomatic carriers who infect a large number of people while being oblivious to their own infection.
> Nope, the rationale behind the vaccination mandates is to prevent the medical system
The rationale they offer is to make their pouplation immune to infection, and immune to passing on to 'vulnerable people who can not have the vaccine'. Assuming they believe what they say, they are idiots. In reality having the vaccine is not a selfless choice for all humanity, it is a choice entirely to benefit ones self induvidually. Your risk of death goes down dramatically should you become infected with covid. Hugging grandma doesnt become safer because you have had a vaccine, it becomes safer if they have.
As for overwhelming hospitals, I don't understand why it wouldn't be sufficient to vaccinate the at risk population (old and obese people, for example).