"Masks don't work"
"Vaccines don't work"
"Distancing doesn't work"

(They do. Just imperfectly).

I've heard so many of these types of comments over the past 3 years, I thought it was time to write a bit about how one big aspect of infection is a numbers game. /1

@aetiology The thing is, as far as we know, vaccines DO work - but only on the variant they were created for. If we could stop the virus from mutating, things would go better. But here we are.
@recurve one could say you restated Tara's post, just imperfectly