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> An actual infection is the only way to get any kind of long term immunity

I can understand this intuition, that only "the real thing" can make you immune to it. But do you have any data to back up this claim? And what, then, is your conclusion? That we should get vaccinated, and then catch COVID afterward to make sure that we have real, lasting immunity? Or that we should skip vaccination altogether, and just accept the 3-4% risk of dying?

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I added a reference to my original comment. Maybe its what youre looking for.

But otherwise i dont really know honestly what the risks are but i wouldnt say for a young healthy person its at 3-4 percent of dying. For context I have had covid and a high fever and mild pneumonia during it so I have some idea.

FWIW I would definitely recommend the get vaccinated (two shots maybe even a booster) and then getting covid as its a safer strategy. But yeah youre not going to get immunity otherwise is all I am saying.

Just to be That Guy, the risk isn't evenly distributed. Nobody has a 3% chance of dying; you either have much more or much less.

No, but the chance of getting serious but non-lethal secondary effects from COVID may be more evenly distributed. Young people are less likely to die but they still get blood clots, brain fog, myocarditis, and other loving term effects.

That's still the population's chance. Your chance may very well be 100% - you just don't know until you contract the disease.

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