That is not what kept delta alive.
I know you like to believe that. Delta spread everywhere in the world. High vaxxed countries, low vaxxed countries, etc.
The vaxxed still catch and spread the virus. The effectiveness of the vaxxes have dropped off dramatically which is why they are asking and hoping that a booster or 2 will do the trick.
With the Omicrom the vaxxes are not good at all vs stopping the spread or catching the virus. That is why you see cases rising dramatically in the vaxxed population.
The good?
The O so far seems to be a lot less severe.
Vaxxes seem to still help some people from getting seriously ill.
But your belief that it is the unvaxxed in the US that keeps the virus around is simply wishcasting on your part.
Right now the O is infecting everyone vaxxed or not. States in the east with some of the highest population vax rates are seeing large surges in cases. This is across the population as a whole.
Now reality is starting to set in. Other countries are starting to say well it is endemic we will just have to live with this. Now the WH and Biden are starting to come around to this thinking. They are also starting to think about moving the focus away from case numbers and focusing on the important part...severity.
From CNN.
A shift toward focusing on severity instead of case numbers
Some of Biden's advisers are encouraging the administration to begin discussing publicly how to live alongside a virus that shows no signs of disappearing, a potentially stark shift in messaging for a White House that once touted "freedom from the virus."
Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic's every up and down. It is a part of a growing conundrum that Biden faces as the Covid-19 pandemic refuses to abate.
"We're getting to the point now where ... it's about severity," said Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, in a meeting with reporters this week. "It's not about cases. It's about severity."
they will stop counting cases until that next Florida surge #DeathSantis