I did not get the vaccine. Not once have I gotten covid.
That is only because you have not been exposed to the virus. Or not long enough in a sufficient dosage.
Vaccines do not stop you from catching any disease. None. Vaccines only prepare your immune system to fight the particular bacteria/virus/pathogen if you become infected with it.
Government really did fuck up a lot in how they handled the pandemic, and continue to do so IMO.
Take masks for instance.
It only makes sense to anyone that some sort of mechanical filtration would both
reduce the amount of aerosolized viruses exhaled by someone infected, and
reduce the amount inhaled by the next guy.
And there is, and never was ANY doubt whatsoever that ANY SARS or other RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS were not airborne and transmitted through breathing. NONE.
Therefore, filtration and dilution (through being outdoors for example) would
reduce transmission.
Yet, at the earliest stages of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci himself an infectious disease expert not only said that masking was not effective, he said that it could be dangerous! And to give people something to do to feel they had some sort of control over their own lives, told every to wash their hands for as long as it took to sing Happy Birthday! FFS
All the while, working behind the scenes with government to procure and go on a wartime footing to produce masks.
I get it. He had good intentions. He lied for an ostensibly good reason to prevent a rush on masks so that health care providers could be protected to help protect society as a whole.
But, it was a lie that undermined pubic trust in an already skeptical US population.
So I can see why distrust got a better foothold.
Same with selling the vaccine on the basis of not "catching" or spreading COVID.
Having said that, the pre-omicron strains were less contagious and being vaccinated seemed to reduce the transmission and the getting sick part to the level that you might not even show symptoms.
While I had no side effects, I suppose my DNA is forever damaged

by getting 3 jabs of Moderna! I got Covid last May and it hit me like a ton of bricks but the hard hit was only for a few days. Worst "flu" I've ever felt.

But I can get my fourth "jab" in another 2 months and already have it in my Calendar.
Full dislosure. I have taken every vaccine I have been able to get my hands on all my life. Personally experienced no side effects from any. Also never got any of the diseases and especially hope to not get shingles when I get into the higher risk age group for it. (I got the original Shingles (live-attenuated virus vaccine) when I turned 40 as a 45 year old friend had experienced shingles and said it was fucking excruciating. I also got the latest Shingrix vax before I qualified age-wise too.
Anyways, it's just a thought!