Everybody got Covid (multiple times!), despite draconian measures to force people to take the vaccine. I've taken many vaccines in my life. I never got measles, mumps, or rubella. I never got tetanus or hepatitis C. Nobody I know who got the smallpox vax ever got smallpox. But everyone I know got Covid, vax / no vax. Some people I know got ill for three weeks from the vax itself. One dude got bells palsy from it. Nobody ever had to force people to take the smallpox vax or lose their job. People just willingly took it because they knew smallpox was really, truly, desperately deadly and that the vax actually worked. The Covid vax had none of those properties of the smallpox vax and yet it was paired with the most 1984 level insanity of my entire life.
The virus that causes Covid mutates rapidly. The Covid vaccine is effective up to a point. It’s similar to how flu vaccines work. People who get a flu vaccine are less likely to get the flu but are not immune to the flu. Covid was and is deadly. It’s caused millions of deaths.
I'm an example that proves you wrong. Vaccines and masks and careful travel and I've avoided it, my wife's avoided it, and many of my friends and family have avoided it. Maybe you travel in careless circles but those of us with chronic health issues aren't as willing to leave things up to chance as you are.