The goal is to encourage people to get vaccinated, not encourage them to get the disease. This has been the policy for other diseases for a long time, eg, requ

The goal is to encourage people to get vaccinated, not encourage them to get the disease. This has been the policy for other diseases for a long time, eg, require yellow fever vaccinations even from people who had yellow fever. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_Vaccination_or_Prophylaxis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_V... : > The ICVP is not an immunity passport; the primary difference is that vaccination certificates such as the ICVP incentivise individuals to obtain vaccination against a disease, while immunity passports incentivise individuals to get infected with and recover from a disease. Why does a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School not include that counter-argument? The author makes statements that are not supported by the nominal supporting materials. For example, "Hence, we are now seeing a fierce competition where hospitals and nursing homes are desperately trying to hire people with natural immunity. Well, actually, not. " I followed the "actually" link, to https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-22/houston-covid-vaccine-fired https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-22/housto... . I don't see anyone described has declining the vaccination because they already had the disease. I also see how Jennifer Bridges, who refused to be vaccinated, "received multiple offers from private nursing companies sympathetic to her cause and started working for one of them Tuesday, with the same pay and benefits." The "Well" link also doesn't support the claim that the people who declined to get vaccinated already had natural immunity due to having got the disease.