In January of 2021, the Coronavirus vaccines were first being used, under emergency authorization, with only the elderly, teachers and health care workers eligible to get the shot. According to CDC data at 6:00 AM EST on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 a total of 205,420,745 Americans had been fully vaccinated, or 61.9% of the population. The Washington Post reported, on December 19^th, that some 60.2 million booster shots had been administered, meaning that roughly 29.3% of the fully vaccinated population have gotten the third jab.

How is it, then, that the number of new cases is now higher than before the vast majority of the population had been vaccinated?

The U.S. hits a record number of new COVID cases

by Deepa Shivaram | December 29, 2021 | 3:01 PM ET

The omicron variant is spreading rapidly all over the country, but hospitalization and death rates remain relatively low.

The seven-day average of COVID-19 cases topped 280,000 this week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University’s tracker. It’s a record number of new cases in the country; the last time the number of cases hit a peak close to that was January.

Public health officials including Dr. Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky say the new variant appears to be less severe than ones in the past but still emphasize the need to follow public health protocols like getting vaccinated and wearing a mask to curb the spread of the virus.

Note that the reference is to an article which tells the reader that cloth masks are almost useless, and that people need “to upgrade to an N95 or similar high-filtration respirator when you’re in public indoor spaces.”

Data from the White House provided at a briefing Wednesday shows the seven-day average of hospitalizations is about 9,000 per day — which is a 14% increase in hospitalizations from last week. However, there was a 60% rise in cases over the same time frame. The seven-day average of COVID-19 deaths is down from last week, at about 1,100 deaths per day.

Officials say the difference is in part because omicron causes less severe symptoms for those who are vaccinated and especially for those who are boosted.

Simply put, getting the wholly mischaracterized ‘vaccines’ does not seem to prevent anyone from contracting, or spreading, the virus, but does appear to lessen the seriousness of coronavirus symptoms. In effect, it means that taking the ‘vaccine’ does nothing to lessen community spread, but does help the individual who does contract the virus.

So, naturally, some people want to change the definition of “fully vaccinated.” From The New York Times:

As Omicron Spreads, Officials Ponder What It Means to Be ‘Fully Vaccinated’

The contagious new variant has companies and government officials wondering whether Americans can really be considered vaccinated without booster shots.

By Emily Anthes and Noah Weiland | Wednesday, December 29, 2021 | Updated 7:57 PM EST

Goldman Sachs and Jeffries, the investment banks, are demanding that employees get booster shots. The University of Oregon and other institutions are requiring that students and staff members get boosters. New York State has said it plans to stop considering residents fully vaccinated unless they’ve gotten the shots.

As the highly transmissible Omicron variant spreads from coast to coast, corporations, schools, governments and even sports leagues are reconsidering what it means to be “fully vaccinated.”

Now federal health officials, too, have taken on the question. Although top policymakers want to encourage Americans to get three doses, some would like to avoid changing the definition of a phrase that has become pivotal to daily life in much of the country, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations.

Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the C.D.C. director, said in an interview on Tuesday that she and other health officials were “working through that question” now.

Further down:

Redefining “fully vaccinated” could lead to enormous logistical challenges, as even supporters of the idea concede, and it is likely to incite political backlash. Tens of millions of Americans who thought of themselves as vaccinated might discover that without boosters, they could lose access to restaurants, offices, concerts, events, gatherings — any place where proof of vaccination is required to enter.

Moreover, the change risks undermining trust in public health officials after two years of shifting recommendations, experts said. Some Americans may feel that the goal posts have been moved again, and too suddenly.

You think?

We have already noted that more and more places, notably in large, Democrat-controlled urban areas, have been imposing requirements that indoor patrons at several types of venues must show their papers, their vaccination records, to be allowed entry. Now, other government “officials” want to change the definition of “fully vaccinated” to force millions to comply with boosters, which have shown no measurable effect on reducing transmission of the virus, just to eat at a restaurant.

The left have changed their tactics. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin exemplified the issue, trying to divide the nation into two groups, the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and proclaiming, “The problem, as always is the case, is the unvaccinated.” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted that it was no longer science, but politics, saying, “It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate.”

The science had become the political science!

The authoritarians are learning, to their dismay, that Americans don’t take well to dictatorship, and they are seeing, both in the United States and abroad, broad resistance to these mandates. Reduce the isolation from ten days to five, and maybe, maybe! they can get fewer people to resist.

Sort of like just fifteen days to flatten the curve, right?

The actual numbers, with daily new cases having set another record, would indicate a nationwide shutdown was in order, but “they” know that such an order would never be obeyed again. So, now the elites have to try something, to show that they are Doing Something, but have to temper it with the knowledge that the people will take only so much.

In the British patriotic song Rule Britannia, one of the lines of the chorus is “Britons never, never will be slaves!” Our fearless leaders are now discovering, to their utter dismay, that Americans never, never will be slaves!