The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has an effectiveness of about 91%. That means in about 9% of cases it is not protective.
I'm amazed we are this deep into this pandemic and people still have black and white thinking wrt to vaccinces.
It's literally 10x worse than cars and 30K from cars is horrific.
In fact, 91% is an amazingly high number - I don't know if any pre-mRNA vaccine has ever reached that level of effectiveness.
So I return to my original point -- if they're really that effective, why the hubbub?
And the virus rapidly evolved and the vaccines we have became less effective to new strains, as expected. A quick deployment of vaccines would greatly reduce that risk (see: Japan currently having infections in the double digits following a rapid deployment in vaccines and universal masks, leaving little room for new strains to adapt).
The pandemic has been a long chain of some insightful people saying "This bad thing will happen if people don't take X precaution." People say that's a lie--then don't take X precautions. Bad thing happens. People get angry and say they were lied to because bad thing happened when they were told it wouldn't happen (because loads of people took no precautions). Then there's a warning about another bad thing happening, followed by denial.
This is a very dangerous idea and why there is so much confusion and misinformation.
By insisting that 91% is "truly effective" in conversations like this you are not helping.