PsychoBandito
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The vaccine doesn't make you 100% immune but it reduces the effects of the virus on your body and prevents you from getting really sick. It does boost your natural immunity so there is an actual benefit from getting vaccinated.
The variants appear when enough people get infected and to allow the virus to mutate. Since vaccines reduce the transmissibility of the virus, they do help prevent the appearance of new variants.
This is where I struggle with vaccinating children, who do not really seem to be a large vector, rather than sending shots to poor countries.
It is entirely possible a variant appears that all current vaccinations are ineffective and we start all this again.