Yep, just ignore the inconvenient facts and carry on being a contradictory mess. That's the MO of you noisy little lot, isn't it?
The vaccine is safe, it's effective, and hospitals in the US are being overwhelmed by unvaccinated patients at the expense of others while the anti-vax crowd is now peddling drinking their own urine as yet another supposed "COVID cure." Americans are dying at a rate of approximately 2,000 people a day, and they're mostly unvaccinated.
I don't think we're the ones ignoring inconvenient facts.
A person who is triple vaxxed, although less likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to catch omicron, still have a significant chance of catching the disease. The good news is that a triple vaxxed person is likely to suffer milder symptoms than their unvaccinated counterparts, and they are significantly less likely to have to go to the hospital or die from it.
The genome of omicron is significantly different from preceding strains, which is why there have been so many breakthrough infections. The good news is the vaccine still offers a good amount of protection, particularly where it counts (i.e. not getting hospitalized or dying). An omicron-specific vaccine may be released around March, and the best way to reduce the odds of infection, the spread of the disease, the formation of new variants, hospitalization, or death is to get vaccinated. If one hasn't been vaccinated, now is the time to do it.
It's infecting my city like wild fire, and my city is like the highest vaxxed percentage inside my state.
I already caught Covid on Christmas, got over it, it wasn't that bad. I question if I should even bother getting vaxxed.
My entire family also caught Covid at the same time. My dad had it the worst, and he's the only one vaxxed/boosted out of us all.
Even if a city is highly vaccinated, that's only part of the story. If it has a high population density, for example, then it may have higher rates of infection than a rural area with a lower vaccination rate. These variables need to be kept in mind. It's easy to imagine how worse your city could have been if the vaccination rate weren't as high as it is.
I'm glad your symptoms weren't that bad, and that seems to be the case with a lot of people catching omicron, but getting vaccinated would have likely made your symptoms milder, and vaccination is the best way to avoid infection, hospitalization, and death. I don't know when you or your family members were infected, but it could be that some of your family members might not have been infected if some who weren't vaccinated had been vaccinated.
Worse symptoms, hospitalization, and death are still mostly happening in older folks and people with other underlying health conditions, so it isn't surprising that your father, someone who is probably significantly older than you, had it worse even though he was vaccinated. If he had it really bad and was vaccinated, then I would hate to imagine what it could have been like for him if he hadn't been vaccinated.
There are a lot of variables that affect how bad COVID-19 is for a person, so instead of focusing on anecdotes, it's important to look at the larger numbers. It's easy to look at your family situation and say "the vaccine does nothing" or "the vaccines makes things worse," but that isn't a very good sample size. The actual data is clear: The vaccines are safe, effective, and highly recommended.
