"Hurr durr look at cases there's more than before" is not how you can tell whether the vaccine has an effect and is not how the scientific method works. It's likely that without vaccines, the omicron variant would have caused an even higher case load than we are seeing now. We know this because there are studies that show the vaccine reduces your likelihood of getting the original strain. Also we have studies that show vaccination reduces your probability of infection by omicron [0]. In addition, without vaccines, there would be more hospitalizations.

These facts don't necessarily support vaccine mandates from a moral POV, but they're still the facts and by ignoring these facts you're the one spreading nonsense.

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119270

The case rate among unvaccinated can be up to 18 times higher than the vaccinated, even in areas where the vaccination rate is close to 75% https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/...

The vaccines reduce contraction, transmission and severity

You can have a high case load in vaccinated countries and still have vaccines that reduce transmissions. Those two ideas don’t conflict.

It just means the vaccines we have don’t reduce transmission by 100% and you have a disease that is highly infectious. Just because a medical intervention doesn’t work 100% of the time doesn’t mean it’s 0% effective. Most interventions (vaccines, drugs, procedures, surgeries) don’t work at 100.0%.

From the data I’ve seen it appears the mRNA vaccines have some effect in reducing transmission while the other vaccines don’t. It is correct to say that the efficacy against transmission has dropped significantly, but that doesn’t mean it’s 0%.

It's dramatically effective in reducing spread. Unvaccinated people are driving 85-90% of the spread in Germany. https://rocs.hu-berlin.de/publication/maier-2021-germany/

you’re continuing to ignore “more contagious variants”