The messaging has been really inconsistent throughout this to the point where you sort of start feeling like the experts don't really know what they’re talking about either.
Oh please, no public health official has ever said that, and you know it.
The problem is the curve isn't flat, thanks to 1) Delta, and 2) vaccine hesitancy. There's a reason ICUs in the American south are at or over capacity.
Speak plainly. Waffling language like this is commonly used by conspiracy theorists who don't want to come out and say anything clearly and plainly, because it could quickly be shot down by the actual facts. Instead they use speech patterns like this to create a hazy word cloud that breeds uncertainty.
Do you really think the experts don't know what they are talking about? Say so then. Enough with the snarky insinuation.
You’re right — I haven’t heard “flatten the curve” rhetoric since the earlier days of the pandemic. Taking the vaccine helps prevent healthcare systems from crashing. In highly vaccinated areas, is it accurate to now say, “Mission accomplished”? I don’t think so, given that children under 12 can’t be vaccinated. And yet we are sending them back to in-person learning in droves….
+1 about the inconsistent messaging and logic.
In my opinion these public health “experts” have a moral obligation to tell people to stop worrying about kids. I honestly don’t understand why they haven’t cheered the fact kids aren’t at risk. It’s good news!
The cynical side of me thinks they want to let people remain scared so they gobble up kids vaccines when released. Which is pretty ethically challenged but par for course with these “experts”.
Not media articles but where is the actual data you're using to make this claim?
I never heard this. I belive many people jumped to this conclusion on their own. Because they associate vaccination with immunization.
However, Covid-19 vaccine efficacy against infection was originally 93-95% but has dropped to 60% or less against the Delta variant. A lot of discussion seems to ignore this. To get back to the 90% plus efficacy we’ll need the vaccine to be re-tuned against delta, which no one seems in a rush to do for some reason…
[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31039835/ “In an outbreak of measles in Gothenburg, Sweden, breakthrough infections (i.e. infections in individuals with a history of vaccination) were common. [. . .] Sixteen of 28 confirmed cases of measles in this outbreak were breakthrough infections.”
Katherine J. Wu (The Atlantic) - We’re Asking the Impossible of Vaccines // Complete protection against infection has long been hailed as the holy grail of vaccination. It might simply be unachievable.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...
At no point have I ever seen anyone claim the vaccine is 100% effective.
They were very clear in the press releases that it was 95% effective.