I do, Fauci says nothing that contradicts this. People with breakthrough infections spread similarly to unvaccinated people, yes. But the majority of vaccinated people do not experience breakthrough infection. And people who are not infected do not spread the disease.
Your article is from October. Omicron basically nuked the vaccines’ ability to prevent infection. (It’s not a zero, but it is extremely weakened esp without a recent booster.)
Even if the vaccine _only_ protected the recipient (from severe illness and death), it would still be in the Navy's interest (and authority) to require sailors to receive it before deployments. This is no different than all the other preventative care non-civilians submit to in order to avoid having health problems jeopardize the success a mission later on.
And mind you even if the impact on transmission rates is relatively small, this has a significant impact on the amount of cases due to the exponential nature of disease spread.
What I wrote is not misinformation, the post I was replying to however is incorrect, claiming the “majority of vaccinated people do not get infected.” The efficacy of eg two shots from H1 2021 is iirc about 30% (being generous.) Also, the fact that someone already had COVID or not materially alters the potential benefits of getting a subsequent first, second, or third shot. Men under 40 who have had a COVID infection specifically are reasonable to reject the current vaccine, especially Moderna, given the still unknown mechanism of action which is causing heart damage and in some rare cases killing people.
