Pushing the idea that vaccination is a "cure" for getting the disease as the government has, encouraged a lot of skulls full of mush to ignore other common sense protocols.
Same exact thing happens when new drugs or "vaccines on the horizon" are announced. The HIV infections go UP, not down. That's been going on for nearly a half-century now.
Government officials are supposed to know this because they are either "experts" or can afford to hire them. But they behave like there has never been a pandemic before - they seem surprised by every change that occurs.
