> The mandates early on were to curb the hospitalizations / deaths that was occurring.
The first vaccine was very efficient against infection by the original variants. So it was not useful only for people with co-morbidities. Then we got Omicron and a loss of efficacy against infection (but still useful to reduce severeness).
My issue is that it was already known that you can't vaccinate against a corona virus. Why we were convinced this time would be different was insane to me. They used to call them "mutations". But they came up with a new word "variants". Plus there were past attempts to come up with vaccines for SARS and MERS which all failed. This was no different. I wished they had leveled with everyone about this rather than scare the shit out of people.
The first vaccine was very efficient against infection by the original variants. So it was not useful only for people with co-morbidities. Then we got Omicron and a loss of efficacy against infection (but still useful to reduce severeness).