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I think it's because people draw the wrong conclusions. Sure, if your body was stuck fighting COVID19 for two weeks and you then survived (i.e. excluding those pesky 700k Americans who didn't make it), then you are better prepared than if your body was stuck "fighting" COVID19 vaccine for half a day (of sleepiness or at most mild fever).

The PROBLEM is that people then say "oh well then to protect myself better against COVID19 what I should do is get infected with COVID19, rather than get vaccinated". I have NO IDEA why so many people are jumping to that conclusion.. but oh well..

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> Sure, if your body was stuck fighting COVID19 for two weeks and you then survived ... then you are better prepared than if your body was stuck "fighting" COVID19 vaccine for half a day

From what I've read, it's less about severity of infection and more about the fact that the vaccine only introduces one specific aspect of the virus (the spike protein) to the immune system, while the actual virus introduces... all of itself to the immune system. So natural immunity ends up being more comprehensive and resistant to variants than the vaccines.

imo people seem to be stuck in a somewhat contrived line of reasoning about the 'choice' between taking the vaccine or getting infected. hundreds of millions of people, possibly the majority of the adult population have already contracted covid 19 involuntarily, and the vast majority of these people survived which suggests they should have developed natural immunity and yet increasingly within the first world, this immune but unvaccinated population is being faced by public and private mandates that restrict their rights and possibly put their employment at risk unless they take part in what is effectively an ongoing experiment with mrna vaccination, one that increasingly seems to confer them little actual benefit.

> The PROBLEM is that people then say "oh well then to protect myself better against COVID19 what I should do is get infected

Both approaches carry risk, yet your statement presents as if the risk of vaccination is 0. And also excludes the idea that opting not to be vaccinated is a legitimate choice for the millions and millions of “cases” that have already been infected.

The risks of the vaccine have been shown to be a minuscule fraction of the risks of being infected with covid.

If one has acquired immunity then the risk of taking the vaccine is entirely unnecessary.

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