This is a chart of the three waves of covid in Ireland: https://i.redd.it/jxajdpsnyxz71.jpg https://i.redd.it/jxajdpsnyxz71.jpg The first was as it started sp

This is a chart of the three waves of covid in Ireland: https://i.redd.it/jxajdpsnyxz71.jpg https://i.redd.it/jxajdpsnyxz71.jpg The first was as it started spreading. No vaccination, no testing, lots of deaths, not much detected cases. The second was on the first attempt at reopening with "social distancing". Lots of cases, lots of deaths - detection was better but vaccine distribution didn't support the reopening that happened. The third is the post-vaccination opening. Since it's basically "all rules are off", there's a lot of cases (but not as many as the second wave, and maybe not as many as the first wave, but that wasn't measured right as the death count indicates). Despite the rising cases, death counts haven't reached the first or second wave. That is what vaccination does.