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I'm pro vaccine and am vaccinated. But I've also had covid three times since I was able to be vaccinated, and one time before then. That's different than the polio vaccine and basically all vaccines except the flu shot. If your rhetoric around this vaccine doesn't acknowledge this and give reasons to get it anyway, you're not even trying.
There's a whole suite of vaccines which do not provide what you're asking for: sterilizing immunity. That's the penultimate ability of a vaccine. It's incredible we're even able to create anything of that character given we're fighting against living, evolving things.
Setting the minimum bar to "I must never get sick" instead of "won't find myself in a grave" or "I wasn't able to work for a month and was stuck in a hospital for three weeks" is a crazy thing to hang onto.