Your VM isn't protected from malware that you run in it. However your OS and other VMs containing sensitive data (in which you of course do not run anything untrusted at all) will stay safe, by design.
> That's like saying a bank vault is secure after being rebuilt from being broken into. Meaningless.
Did you even read my reply? All data are safe unlike in your (unrelated) example. Give me your actual threat model. 100% security never existed and never will. Security through correctness never worked and never will. Compartmentalization is the only viable approach.
Right, that was the point - so your suggestion that Qubes is a '100% secure OS' is false.