Sure it will... over time as long as the thing keeps mutating and if our immune systems can't adjust quick enough to say - "Hey? Haven't I seen this before???".
The point of it is not to have ZERO (you would need a biohazard suit for that). It's to "reduce" ( "mitigate" ). Meaning during those 20 minutes of neither being masked, when you have someone who is unvaccinated but doesn't have a high viral load, someone who is vaccinated sitting next them won't potentially get as much of a load of it and if they did get some, their immune system can generally get moving fast enough and effectively enough to clear it.
But if you have the same situation without a mask and exposed for hours at a time and no proof that the person next to you was ever vaccinated or even contracted it, then all bets are off.
This is not to say that we are not in a WAY BETTER place now than even a year ago, but then a year ago, the vaccines had only been available for the most vulnerable for about 4 months and then the "throw off your masks" recommendation came (May 13, 2021), and next thing you know, a month or two later, Delta came blasting through, in the middle of the summer mind you, quickly followed by Omicron.
And Omicron really got going a month after the "Travel Ban" of foreign visitors to the U.S. was lifted (and that was primarily only allowing the "vaccinated" to come in - if they could "prove it" (and we know there were fake vaccine cards)).
https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-graph-shows-difference-between-omicron-variant-previous-coronavirus-surges-2022-1
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We just have to hope that with the latest variants seemingly infecting hosts, reproducing, and dying out faster and faster with each new (viable) mutation, that it starts to burn itself out soon.
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