Hello Darth,
Your first sentence is just wrong.
The vaccines *don’t stop transmission*.
His first sentence was: "if everyone got vaxxed tomorrow, COVID would be done this month."
The post was made on September 14th. It is highly unlikely that the pandemic could be under control in a little over 2 weeks even if everyone got vaccinated. But that is because it takes 2 weeks after the final shot to build the full immune effect. Then, it would take about a month for the pandemic to stop spreading. It would also not be possible to vaccinate everyone who is not already vaccinated in a day, so time would also have to be factored in for that to be completed.
You are correct the sentence is not absolutely correct, but your reasoning is flawed.
It is true that transmission still occurs in some fully vaccinated people, but the symptoms are usually not present, and they are not nearly as contagious as unvaccinated people. Also, transmission occurs at a far lower rate in vaccinated people, and if they get it, they don't spread it to as many other people, because their outbreaks do not last as long.
The pandemic could be defeated if a) everyone got vaccinated, and b) everyone did their best to avoid the types of social contact which lead to transmission.
Conscientious people are doing both. Irresponsible selfish people are not, and that is why the pandemic rages on.
It is also true that not everyone needs to participate in the effort to gain control of the pandemic in order for the war to be won. The pandemic could be over if nearly everyone cooperated in the solution. The problem is that too many people are holding out and/or pretending there is no pandemic, and not enough have taken it seriously for us to gain control.
So the battle is convincing more people to take it seriously and take every possible precaution.
We don't know exactly what percentage of the population participating in the solution will be required for the efforts to be successful, but we will find out.
Sooner or later we will get there. How long it takes depends on who quickly we can get the hold-outs to cooperate with the effort.
We are at war with a virus.
We need as many humans as possible to take up the fight.
We won't prevail until enough do it, and we won't know how many are needed until we are successful.
Basically, everyone needs to ask themselves: "Am I part of the solution? Or am I part of the problem."