It's dangerous to assume that vaccines will prevent/inhibit infection. A quick look at the UK data reveals that with 50,000+ daily cases but with hospitalisation/death rates only marginally ticking up. The Govt is inferring that conjoining the two indicates the vaccine is working.
This is slightly misleading as it's a false dichotomy with two different data sets that have little influence on each other. The push to get vaccinated is primarily focussed on the need to keep people out of hospital, reduce cost and uncertainly, and ultimately death. If their inference is accepted it means that not only does vaccination do little to inhibit infection but it's the prime acquisition path.
UK UPDATE: Vaccinated people with symptoms have increased over the unvaccinated by a good margin and are now well over half the cases.
It is indeed, but there is now looming a darker side!The question is, what other restrictions would they have to do away with? No more masks? No more social distancing? Open borders? (Goldfishman)
There is some commentary in the UK that people will not abandon masks and social distancing, preferring to maintain an air of "safety" surrounding their lives. They have become unwilling to let the management of their security be their own responsibility; they have accepted that the Govt will look after them. The weeks following July 19 (UK Freedom Day) will be studied closely by many.
There's also some hint of this in the US as unvaccinated people are being demonised as being "selfish, uncaring, lacking empathy" and spreading the virus. If we agree with the UK data above then this becomes patently false and hysterical nonsense. In accordance, continuing to wear the mask can be seen as establishing the community credentials of the individual, which is virtue signalling at it's best, or worst.
This signals a fundamental change in the attitude of people and while some may consider this just a change of personality it could also mean some damage to mental health which didn't exist before.