Completely agree - but also was pretty clear from the information that was made available and discussed when the vaccines came out. I even think it was discussed on these boards.cisgenderedAggie said:CowboyGirl said:CDC, WHO, and Johns Hopkins vaccines websites all indicated (still do) that vaccines would not prevent infection.FriscoKid said:CowboyGirl said:
This was always known - when the vax came out this was very clearly stated. This is why all the mandates made little sense.
But the thinking was that if you could shorten the duration, you'd shorten the window in which people could transmit. So even if it didn't prevent, it was expected/hoped to help cut down on spread.
That is 100% not how it was sold to the public.
Even the Pfizer tweet above says that they didn't test whether vaccinated participants were protected from COVID by intentionally exposing them to the virus to see how they fared. All they did was give the vax and send people home. The fact that no one in the control group came down with COVID is interesting, and might suggest that there is some protection. But it is also possible that people took precautions or were otherwise never exposed.
It's been very strongly suggested that the trial has inherent bias due to selection of individuals more likely to behave as told. It's also very clear that Pfizer created a purposefully biased design with their endpoint procedures. People were not tested at random or at any interval. PCR tests were only administered as confirmatory of symptomatic disease. No one needs to be told that this usage of testing was not normal after the vaccine was available.
Classic example of a trial being designed to game an endpoint for a win that isn't very applicable in the wild.
And what also happened was that the USG agreed to buy millions of doses of vaccines and then was about to get stuck with them as demand dropped, so they had to manufacture demand by imposing vaccine mandates and pressuring private organizations to impose them too. That was the real issue behind the mandates.