If you rely on anecdotal "evidence", you get whatever you want to get.
I wouldn't say I "wanted" my Mom, Stepdad, friends and other family members to get Covid, despite having been "vaccinated" in some cases 4 times. None were hospitalized, but I would say sicker than you would want to be for an extended period of time.
The term anecdotal cracks me up. I am not going to do a scientific study on the efficacy of the vaccine when I know the people got Covid despite being told by their healthcare professional they first would not get it, then they would get it but not get very sick, then oh yeah you need to get 2 more of these vaccines for it to
really work. I rely far more on my own experiences and what I see than a scientific study that is funded by someone who already expects a predetermined outcome.
If you were hospitalized with Covid I understand your viewpoint. I would certainly want to feel some type of security after having gone through a situation like that for sure. I will say when I got it the first time I would be lying if I hadn't thought I made a mistake by not getting the vaccine. But I also thought I was glad I didn't put something in my body that at the bare minimum hadn't been tested for long term side effects (you can't test those in the absence of time). Prior to Covid, most vaccine trials lasted many years, hell, most drug trials lasted many years.
My skepticism was only solidified when I noticed that in the data collected by my states Health Dept (MT) I started noticing the amount of people hospitalized from Covid and dying from Covid, whether it was vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals, was about 50/50. When the data sets started showing the amount of vaccinated people dying from Covid and being hospitalized from Covid was outnumbering those that were unvaccinated, low and behold, the state quit posting that data. That was a real eye opener.
If you were one of the people hospitalized from Covid with no underlying health conditions and otherwise healthy, you indeed were in rare company. If you got a shot and haven't had any side effects and it protects you, let er buck. It's a free country and folks can do what they want. I would just have a tough time sleeping if I knew that I was basically in the middle of a big science experiment when my odds of being okay without it were above 99%. Even though this is the Bear Pit, I certainly won't call you a homo, commie, or otherwise. But, for my own entertainment (since this is the Bear Pit) please keep posting so I can laugh when others do.