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Our immune systems are pretty amazing.

It's also good to help them along sometimes.

That does not conflict with being unbiased towards evidence that our immune systems are effective against covid.

As long as the initial infection didn’t kill or incapacitate you.

Edit: most bubonic plague infections didn’t kill so I don’t know what the point of “most people survive” is. The problem is that some don’t.

Which is most of covid infections.

The Black Death, if that's what you're talking about, killed about 2/3 of all Europeans.

I usually see estimates more in the 40-50% range?

> our immune systems are effective against covid

When you say "our", who do you mean? 30yo with no underlying health conditions? A leukemia patient? An HIV-positive person? A 50yo diabetic? 40% of the adult obese Americans?

Yes, healthy immune system can be effective at fighting covid. But vaccination is a matter of public health. You aim to eradicate the disease so that everyone is safe.

Again this does not conflict with being unbiased against the evidence.

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