We have been told by everyone from President Biden on down, to the CDC Director Walenski that “breakthrough infections are rare” – they are not – that this has become a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” – it is not – and most disturbingly and illogically (talking to you Mr. Krugman), that the reason we are not all having dinner parties right now is that the unvaccinated have let the rest of us responsible people down
Well just some comments. Breakthrough infections would be rare if the overall infection rate was small - but the idea that vaccinated people cannot be infected with delta is weird and I agree the US messaging has seemed very out of touch.
It is however a pandemic of the unvaccinated. What distinguishes COVID from Flu? The fact that it is much more dangerous. With vaccination, COVID becomes about as dangerous as a bad starin of Flu - admittedly with some added nasties like long COVID. The US has its problem with hospitals clogging up mostly because so many of the at-risk people in some States have believed political and anti-vax lies and end up in hospital.