And that's certainly true for other vaccines.
Example is rabies. You can either get the rabies vaccine series if you work in/around rabies vector species or are exposed. Or you can die once you develop symptoms. Because you're going to die - 99.9999% mortality rate.
Fauci is now undercutting own statements about vaccine effectiveness.
FauXi said that about gain of function research not vaccines. You would know that if you had simply followed the conversation you were replying to.