re: Just to clear up some confusion with regards to the Omicron variant

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It’s actually the opposite. The vaccinated are driving the variants because they aren’t as effective as the natural immune response because they enable high levels of viral load and spread which drive mutations.

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This isn’t true, except the part about natural immunity being superior. The variants are randomly occurring. I’ve never heard of a mechanism by which a virus can design itself to elude immunity. Now, if you refer to natural selection, that is different, and that is occurring. In natural selection, randomly occurring variants will thrive to the extent they can dodge the vaccine immunity. But these variants would have happened regardless of vaccines. And without vaccines, some of these variants probably would have died off because they could not compete with existing variants, until Omicron occurred. It is obviously out-competing other variants in every cohort. So again, vaccines are having no material impact on the ultimate outcome of the race between omicron and delta, for example.