The COVID-19 pandemic

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Dan, the vaccine does 0 to prevent infection. There are literally hundreds of thousands of vaccinated people walking around infected and not knowing it. They walk around like a confident lion thinking they're doing everyone a favour by being vaccinated, but end up getting others sick (vaccinated or not). At this point, almost 2/3 of cases are from vaccinated or partially vaccinated people.

The vaccine, if you can call it that, is only good at reducing the likelihood of serious illness or hospitalization. But if you actually think your vaccination status protects others -- newsflash -- it doesn't.

From one google search: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=does+the+covid+vaccine+reduce+infection&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Multiple studies from the United States and other countries have demonstrated that a two-dose COVID-19 mRNA vaccination series is effective against SARS-CoV-2 infection

People who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 are far less likely to infect others, despite the arrival of the delta variant,

Claim: The COVID-19 vaccine doesn't stop virus spread, so it can't protect others
Claimed by: Social media
Fact check by USA Today: False

Now, you might be referring to the fact that that preventative effect drops off after three months, information which is also available in that trivially easy google search:

The study shows that people who become infected with the Delta variant are less likely to pass the virus to their close contacts if they have already had a COVID-19 vaccine than if they haven’t1. But that protective effect is relatively small, and dwindles alarmingly at three months after the receipt of the second shot.

But that article also includes:

But studies also suggest that vaccinated people are less likely to spread the virus if they subsequently catch Delta: their levels of nasal virus drop faster than do those of unvaccinated infected people, and their nasal swabs contain smaller amounts of infectious virus3,4.

Yes, Omicron is behaving differently and yes the impact of it is still being studied but being protected from every other variant is a hell of a lot more than doing nothing for infection.