Yet we're already seeing signs (iceland, israel, not sure about NZ) that they will not lead to herd immunity[1], and that protection is waning [pfizer study preprint][2]. The goalpost has been moved to "serious disease" (which is reason to get the vaccine, sure). "Fewer deaths" is uncertain to [pfizer preprint, of 44,000, deaths from covid and all cases were evenly split][3].
<speculation, ignore this> Breakthrough infections are leading to viral loads resembling unvaxxed loads[4], which raises the worry of vaccine escape mutations (lesser in number than the random mutations in unvaxxed carriers, but way more deadly). </speculation, ignore this>
[1] https://www.icelandreview.com/society/covid-19-in-iceland-va...
[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...
[3] Page 12, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/07/28/202...
[4] https://news.wisc.edu/study-shows-virus-abundant-in-covid-19...
How can you even consider mandates until these facts are straight?