But misinformation, propaganda, and a misplaced agenda based on manipulation is. If the leading authorities hadn't gone overboard trying to put super positive spin on the vaccine to manipulate folks into taking it, we might not be in this current surge with the hospitals overflowing.
They led everyone to believe that the vaccines were 99% this, and 99% that, and essentially positioned them as providing sterilizing immunity. They flooded every channel with propaganda that said, "Once you are fully vaccinated, we can get back to normal". They told over 165 million that they could stop wearing masks, stop social distancing, and start back conducting mass spreading events. This massive misinformation then led to the super-spreading events not even checking fully vaccinated. If you had a vaccine passport, you could get it without being checked and not wear a mask etc., all the while, many of these millions were spreading COVID and carrying significant viral load that might allow the virus to mutate. Hidden spread from millions, that isn't, and wasn't accounted for.
But you won't hear about how that contributed to the current surge, because it doesn't fit the narrative. It's just sad, but folks need to think about the truth, and all sources of spread when they are considering why "our ICUs are overrun right now".