By "natural immunity" they mean getting COVID and subjecting people to an inordinate risk of permanent disability or death. They are really saying that the best way to not get COVID is to get COVID? I feel like so many people are taking crazy pills.
Even if 1% of population is stupid enough to do it deliberately, and I very much doubt it's that high number, it still leaves 99% of people who did not catch it on purpose. Disregarding their immunity is not scientific at all. And focusing on miniscule Darwin-award population is not very emphatical to 99% who are not like that. Why do focus on Darwin-award subset like that's the most common case?
And know what? If you didn't catch it so far, it's highly likely that you'll get Omicron pretty soon. Or one of future variants. If not in next months then in next years, as we get back to normal and covid variants keep circulating as endemic virus.
How would you feel if you just recovered from the latest strain, you're full of antibodies, but it's not recognized at all by government and you have to take a booster shot made for last year's variant in order to get back to work? Does that make sense?
It looks pretty much insane to me, but I live in Europe where previous infection is more or less equalized with vaccine. I'm baffled it's not like that in the US.
Still the research has displayed that almost any viral infection has undesirable outcomes in the long run so it would make sense to try to avoid as many as possible.
In the USA omicron deaths are now outpacing delta’s.
That is why we haven’t stopped doing things to slow its spread.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-deaths-in-u-s-exceed-de...
I see in your post history that you like to downplay the pandemic and the healthcare crisis it has caused. Why are you like this? What do you gain by it?
You mean except for the vaccines...
The difference between a "breakthrough COVID" case in a vaccinated person and a COVID infection in an unvaccinated person is a complete elimination in the risk of death and greatly reduced chances of severe illness and long-term disability. It's VERY preferable to be vaccinated.
It sounds like you're saying that nobody has ever died from COVID after being fully vaccinated against it, which isn't true.