What he DID say is that the vaccines are creating the variants.
I don't think there is anything much to get. Yes, vaccines can contribute to variant spread. It's natural selection. They don't physically cause a variant to be produced, but if a variant can still infect a vaccinated host, multiply, and spread, so too will the variant. Generally speaking, even a variant that can infect an immunized host will have only modest symptomatic impact, if any, on a vaccinated host. It just wants to do what life does, survive and multiply.
The variants were always going to occur, that's how reproduction works, but the vaccine may apply selective pressure. A laundry list of other factors also apply selective pressure, but it all comes back to what allows the virus to most effectively survive and multiply.
To say that other epidemiologists agree with him that vaccinating during a pandemic is a bad decision is pretty hard for me to believe. Vaccines keep cases down. The United States is currently hovering just under an R-value of 1, which means that if you look at it in a vacuum the virus will eventually die out in the United States. Obviously, real world there are complicating factors like international travel.
I'm not sure if the rambling helped whatsoever, but there it is.
Don’t worry about it, you wouldn’t get it.
ETA all in good fun, since you tend to post lengthy explanations
Oh. Do tell me more about how I’m the rambler.
Speaking of Ramblers, my dad had a white ‘60. He was old school and thought we all should start learning how to drive as soon as we could reach the pedals and see over the steering wheel. My sister learned on the Rambler by practicing on the road my dad made along side our field. I was maybe 5 years old. All I can remember about that is seeing my dad run after her when she went off the road. He didn’t get there in time; she ran it into a tree. Luckily she was only going just faster than he could run and it didn’t do that much damage. But guess I’m rambling.