If the vaccine is close to 100% effective, why are there so many in hospital, and in ICU?
What you mean of course is that the vaccines are quite effective in preventing death. But that doesn’t take into account the ongoing isolation periods, the lack of staff to carry out other essential medical assessments and procedures, the lost wages by causals who can’t work, the effects of long covid, the effects of second and third infections on the heart and blood, the disruption to everyone in their everyday lives because people keep getting covid.
Given all of the above you’d think any measure to help reduce that would be welcomed. Especially the simplest ones like wearing a mask, social distancing and good hygiene. Demanding 100% and guaranteed success before you implement a measure is unrealistic. If we insisted on that we’d have virtually no safety measures at all, anywhere.