I don't have a problem with people not getting vaccinated, just don't go to the hospital when they get sick. Selfishly they are clogging up the medical systems. In many places it can take over 20 hours to be seen in the emergency room, the staff are tired and overworked. Many have quit and replacements are not easy to find thus large staffing shortages. Some hospitals can still do emergency surgery some can't. Cancer patients in many areas are not able to continue their regular treatments. So before people say it is their right, what about the rights of others? Breakthrough cases are now a bigger thing. Isn't it the right of the vaccinated to be able to expect when going to the hospitals to not be impacted by selfish people. What about the safety of children below the age of 12 who can't be vaccinated? Many people here who are not vaccinated are no longer wearing masks. So don't get vaccinated but when they get sick, stay away from hospitals.

A little bit of knowledge is a terrible thing. COVID vaccine and transmission is simply misinformation. To emphasize an obvious fact even to the most obtuse, the 4th wave is essential the infection of the unvaccinated or not completely vaccinated. The cause of transmission? The unvaccinated COVID carrier.
They are assembling data on vaccinated COVID carriers (who are often asymptomatic due to their Vaccine) but those number are, not surprisng, very very low but not impossible.
The non-protein COVID vaccines are what I call the lazy vaccines. They provide the genetic material (mRNA is not a gene by the way so how can it be gene therapy?) and let you make your own vaccine protein antigen in your own body. A brilliant way of doing vaccines and will be the future of not only vaccines but of many biotherapeutics.
Please stop the trivial semantics and misinformation....anti-vaxxers are enough of a problem. Viral replication is what causes the virus to mutate. Most are detrimental or neutral to the virus. On occasion a rare mutation provides an advantage to the virus (Darwinian evolution), and will eventually lead to a variant that is no longer neutralized by the vaccine you (well others I guess), received. People who actually care about themselves, their families and of great importance that seems to be lost nowadays, their fellow man may die even though they were protected against the earlier strains.
The ONLY way to get over this crisis is for people to get vaccinated and to PREVENT the virus from accessing a safe reservoir in whihc to grow. Get vaccinated and get back to normal.
Rant over...my apologies (I work in the vaccine development field)