Because the vaccine protects so much better than just a previous infection. We've been over this, over, and over. But you just won't accept the numbers now will you?
Intramuscular/serum vaccines cannot stop respiratory infections, by definition. They are non-sterilizing. Only a nasal/mucosal vaccine or nasal infection can provide sterilizing immunity against a respiratory virus.
Is it super important that they are technically wrong on something, anyway? Like, do you think Fauci is going to be cancelled because he said something wrong? I doubt that's going to occur based on his prior messaging.
"If you're vaccinated, you won't get COVID" - Joe Biden
From the beginning, there has not been a COVID-19 vaccine that purported to be 100% effective. There are vanishingly few vaccines that provide 100% immunity, if for no other reason than the immune system is not perfect.
In human history, we have only completely removed 1 virus from humanity: smallpox. That is literally the only 100% effective vaccine ever produced. And even then, it is only 100% effective after the fact.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm
So does the Mayo Clinic:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm
I won't go on, but by definition, a medicine that you take that's intended to build up your immune response to a disease is a vaccine. I saw someone upstream write "Intramuscular/serum vaccines cannot stop respiratory infections, by definition," and as far as I can tell this is just point-blank wrong. Whooping Cough -- pertussis -- is a respiratory bacterial infection we've been vaccinating against with intramuscular shots since the 1940s.
This is the technological limits of what vaccines are capable of. Vaccination limits the damage, ensuring a much lower likelihood of catching a 1 to 3 day cold affecting only my upper respiratory tracts rather than risking the lungs and the rest of my body on a potentially multi-week infection.
The longer the infection, the more likely pneumonia or another co-infection will injure or kill you.
Does measles count as a respiratory infection? It causes coughing, is airborne, and infection happens via nasal passages. The intramuscular measles vaccine seems to work pretty well.
The mRNA vaccines give a broader immunization that covers more. That's not even up for debate, you're only pretending it is.
I hope your comment is sarcasm.
Either way I find it weird that the study clearly shows vaccination + infection provides the best protection yet people are using this to argue that they don't need a vaccination at all.