Given the percentage of unvaccinated hospitalized or dead during the Delta surge compared to vaccinated, I think it's obvious that the vaccines helped.
Probably. But nowhere near as much as they thought or implied.
The DirecTV guys that came yesterday told me about two family members, husband and wife. Both got fully vaccinated. Two months later, both got COVID, both were hospitalized, and both died. Yeah, they were older and probably had underlying health issues, but I'm hearing lots of stories of this type and they aren't all old folks. This apparently happened fairly recently. A fellow church member lost his 40 year old son to COVID. My friend that I recently posted about almost died because the doctor wouldn't continue to give her steroids to clear her lungs.
Meanwhile, are we hearing about people who have had COVID getting it again and more importantly, dying? Nope. The protection from prior infection is broad spectrum and protects even against the variants. The vaccines do fairly well against the original virus, but not very good against the variants. Reports from all over the world (except here) indicate this, so do the handful of doctors who don't blindly follow the CDC BS.
The doctor on Fox News yesterday said that between vaccines and the meds available now, no one who isn't very sick to start with should be dying from COVID. I think he's right, but from talking with some of my friends who have been hospitalized since I have, most doctors still don't have a clue how to treat COVID.
Our government is not trying very hard to end this nightmare, they are playing politics and using it to control people. The only drugs they approve are the ones that cost big bucks. Most medical personnel still don't know how to properly treat COVID, and the only info they are being fed is the CDC politically approved line of BS. And people are dying because politics is blocking knowledge and experience from being spread.
We are being lied to, we are being manipulated and controlled. Our government doesn't want to end COVID, it's the greatest thing that has ever happened to politicians. COVID is what has allowed Socialists to get in power and cause all the damage we've seen to our country.
This will only stop if/when The People get tired of it and push back.