When the survival rate goes from 99.7 to 99.8
obviously you're too young to be at risk, and far too stupid to grasp survival rates for olders who get infected are no where near those numbers, but more like 30 times those or more.
big difference in a one in 5,000 chance, and a one in 12 or 20 or 30 chance, and those differences in survival rates are what are reality for different age groups once infected.
i would blame ignorance for your response, but since that's highly unlikely today, i can only blame stupidity. (better than my blaming malevolence or indifference, the other possibilities, don't you think).
sorry to be an ass, and i see you're a mod, but playing fast and loose with those numbers is bad acting, and very very deceptive as to how the virus affects different age groups.
that said, i think you are correct in the answer being in the survival rate of the vaccinated who contract the virus anyway, rather than the number of infections.
i am under the impression that the hope of the vaccine is to limit the damage of the infection in age groups and others pron to damage, rather than prevent infection altogether.
if incorrect, please correct me, and blame ignorance on my part.
imho, absent infections going to zero, the key to success and a return to normal society and a normal economy, will be if the olders who have been vaccinated but still get infected, can fight it off without severe damage or death, more like common flu percentages.
to have that answer, i'll assume we need sufficient scale of olders who have been vaccinated but still get infected after the fact, to study if any significant percentage of them are still dying or getting ICU level sick, or having any of the other severe negative responses to the virus.
to me, only then will we know how well the vaccines work, and how safe for olders a return to normal society is.
that said, infections going to zero would be nice too, even if we don't know if that's due to the vaccine or just herd immunity due to spread.
on a side note, many here talk of a mask wearing society even if the vaccine is shown to work as hoped, and all who want vaccinated get it.
i personally don't see that, and don't recall that being the case after the Spanish flu ran it's course. (but don't know what time frame those saying it are referring to either).
in full disclosure, i was somewhat a germophobe before covid, as far as washing hands more than most, and using precaution around keypads and public doorknobs and such.
that said, if the vaccine works or herd immunity through spread is reached, i don't see myself wearing a mask after that point, even if i do stay precautionary with keypads and public doorknobs and such.
old phobias die hard i guess.