Full stop here. This was prevalent in the media - CDC Director, Maddow, Biden, all said this verbatim. There's plenty of individual videos and compilations. Even without those, anyone with any decent amount of media exposure heard this. It was 100% the narrative.
But I've seen what you've said 100s of times with twitter links etc....part of it is a coordinated effort amongst activists to change history. Obviously not the case with you but I'd really like to understand how this could be missed. Are your sources that biased?
Do you really, actually believe they never said this? Remember the term "breakthrough case"? Why would something be called a "breakthrough" if it wasn't designed to stop acquisition or transmission? Remember "get vaccinated for others"? Why would they say that if it only reduced hospitalization risk?
Now, Pfizer has come out and said it was never intended to stop, but they NEVER said that when the prevailing messaging said it did.
You are correct, Biden (who is a politician and not a virologist) said, during a July 2021 CNN town hall, "You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations," and "If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die."
I imagine Biden had been updated when he said this in December 2021, "And because Omicron spreads so easily, we’ll see some fully vaccinated people get COVID, potentially in large numbers."
Likewise, the CDC updates what they release to the public, like they did with this one on Monday, March 29, 2021, when they said, "A new CDC study provides strong evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are highly (90%) effective in preventing SARS-CoV-2"
Neither Rachel Maddow nor other news reporters are folks I would go to for information about COVID. Because they are inclined to say whatever sells the news.
This might surprise you. I do not believe everything I hear no matter the source. Logic and experience contribute to my decision-making process. Since other vaccines do not guarantee one will never get the virus, it is illogical to think the COVID vaccine would be any different.
When I want to learn more about anything to avoid being misinformed, I am inclined to look at a variety of sources, realizing that taking the word of one source is not enough. Everyone has some bias.
The definition of the term breakthrough is, 'an important discovery or event that helps to
improve a situation or provide an answer to a problem. If the CDC or anyone else claimed the vaccine absolutely prevented COVID, they were shortsighted and premature. There was no way to know this early in the pandemic. To this day science is still learning about the causes and effects of COVID.
When I remember to, I like to include links, not because I think what I posted or what someone said is definitive, but because I think folks want to know the source so they can follow it, read it, and make their own determination as to its validity. Because we all have some degree of bias, any number of folks can read, see, and hear the same thing and come away with different conclusions. I have repeatedly said that Twitter posts are nothing more than opinions, much like posts here are. I also believe opinions are not the same thing as facts although we all are entitled to have them.
I stated my rational to get the COVID vaccine multiple times on Getbig. To repeat, I have several comorbidities which put me at greater risk of having acute symptoms should I get COVID. I am asthmatic, have a tendency for colds to develop into pneumonia ever since infancy, and I am old. Aside from those few things, I take good care of myself and am healthy, (according to my GP).
What I don't get is why some folks find it necessary to denigrate others who decide to get vaccinated. I don't do that to folks who choose not to because I strongly believe in choices and taking responsibility for them. Sometimes, I refer to someone against having the vaccine as being an antivaxxer which is usually what they are... this is a far cry from calling them sheep, sheepies or some other term which is intended to be derogatory.