I imagine you would have a problem with George Washington, I think he might of had something to do with this country, but he was the first to mandate a vaccine for his entire army. It was small pox, you can probably count the number of times a vaccination was needed in 250 years, like maybe five times.
As for protection for the vaccinated, it's more of freeing up our hospitals to deal with the population. Right now they are full of unvaccinated covid patient's, clogging up our free society. Why are the rights of the unvaccinated more important than the 75 percent of America that is vaccinated. So many Americans have other health issues that requires going to the hospital, but they cannot.