It’s not sophistry to point out that someone has unrealistic expectations.
Furthermore, you can’t ask yourself a bunch of questions and then ignorantly answer them all with “no” when vaccine efficacy studies set a clear definition of “effective”.
> vaccine efficacy studies set a clear definition of “effective”.
Those definitions changed after it became clear that the original definitions -- those on the basis of which the vaccines were authorized, and people pressured into obtaining them -- were not met.
If anyone had unrealistic expectations, it was policy-makers.
Furthermore, you can’t ask yourself a bunch of questions and then ignorantly answer them all with “no” when vaccine efficacy studies set a clear definition of “effective”.