[dktokyo]

The vaccine has been well demonstrated to provide significant reduction of both of those, actually greater than any prior vaccine for the original strain of COVID.

The key infectious strains we see today are variants that, in no small part due to increasing herd immunity to prior strains, are microevolutionarily driven to evolve around the vaccines. The same way the flu develops strains that bypass vaccine protections throughout the year.

Even with the different variants, the vaccines have reduced the transmissibility and infection rates vs nonvaccinated individuals, with some allowance in limited datasets (ie. Ottawa) for behavioral changes between vaccinators and nonvaccinators.

Not sure where you acquired your misinformation, but you may need better sources.

[dudeDDRrulez]

“Herd immunity is the protection of an individual from infection by virtue of the other members of the population being incapable of transmitting the virus to that individual. Herd immunity can be achieved by immunizing a population with a vaccine that interrupts transmission, such as the live, attenuated polio vaccine, but not with a vaccine that does not interrupt transmission, such as the killed polio vaccine.”

Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 13th Edition. by Warren Levinson. Page 259.