Misleading. The texts in the quotations is not a quote but a paraphrase. What was said was that “Our data from the CDC suggests that….”
Please note the inclusion of the important phrases of “our data” and “SUGGESTS.”
To the point of the person being mocked in the meme- the CDC director did not say that the vaccine was 100% effective and did not say anything about “breakthrough cases.”
Sadly this is an example of the difficulty in explaining even relatively simple technical information to people who lack the faculties of comprehension.
It is inherent to any vaccine that the vaccinated can still carry a pathogen. A vaccine is not a barrier or a sealed environment. Why would a vaccine stop you from being able to carry a pathogen? It might limit the amount of or length of time a pathogen can remain in the body, but even if you wore a sealed environmental suit you could still carry a pathogen on the suit even if it wasn’t inside your body.
Secondly, the ability to become infected with a pathogen one is vaccinated against, even if that vaccine is 100% effective in theory, relies on two major factors. The first is that the vaccinated person has a healthy immune system. Vaccines are a battle plan which prepares your immune system to fight an infection. If you have no soldiers to fight or your soldiers are too weak to carry out the plan, the theoretical effectiveness of a plan is irrelevant. The other critical component is that the pathogen be the actual thing you are vaccinated against. In other words, so called “variants” of a pathogen which were not tested with the original vaccine may or may not have partial or total resistance to a vaccine. Being vaccinated against “the flu” one year does not mean that you are safe from a different strain aka variant of the flu. So vaccinated people can still catch “covid” if that particular strain is not what they are vaccinated against specifically.
Please note the inclusion of the important phrases of “our data” and “SUGGESTS.”
To the point of the person being mocked in the meme- the CDC director did not say that the vaccine was 100% effective and did not say anything about “breakthrough cases.”
Sadly this is an example of the difficulty in explaining even relatively simple technical information to people who lack the faculties of comprehension.
It is inherent to any vaccine that the vaccinated can still carry a pathogen. A vaccine is not a barrier or a sealed environment. Why would a vaccine stop you from being able to carry a pathogen? It might limit the amount of or length of time a pathogen can remain in the body, but even if you wore a sealed environmental suit you could still carry a pathogen on the suit even if it wasn’t inside your body.