> you can't get COVID if you get the vaccine, implying it would stop the virus from circulating.
It is entirely possibly that vaccination can leave a virus circulating while still preventing disease. Whether it does in this specific case is something you could debate, but you can't draw that implication stand alone.
>It is entirely possibly that vaccination can leave a virus circulating while still preventing disease. Whether it does in this specific case is something you could debate
But breakthrough cases of the COVID disease do occur in this specific case.
What is the relevance of a hypothetical alternative scenario where breakthrough cases don't exist?
> you can't get COVID if you get the vaccine, implying it would stop the virus from circulating.
It is entirely possibly that vaccination can leave a virus circulating while still preventing disease. Whether it does in this specific case is something you could debate, but you can't draw that implication stand alone.