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>Also just in terms of baseline beliefs based on the physical world, I would assume that the vast majority of the time an infection would be more protective tha

>Also just in terms of baseline beliefs based on the physical world, I would assume that the vast majority of the time an infection would be more protective than a vaccine. It is also orders of magnitude more deadly. Vaccines are proven to be much safer than getting Covid. This is one preprint study comparing natural immunity to the Pfizer vaccine. It is interesting and may hold up after peer review. However, we have to be careful drawing broad conclusions and over interpreting these results. The danger is that we are already seeing many groups pointing to this study and trying to read this as meaning we should not be getting vaccinated, because obviously getting covid is better. We should not forget that in 2020 and into 2021, despite significant lock downs and enforced/encouraged masking, and without widely and globally available vaccinations we lost about 5 million people to Covid. Skipping vaccines in favor of "natural" immunity is a path to continued carnage.

UnFleshedOne 5y ago
People are not usually saying getting covid is better (not without many qualifiers anyway), they are saying that if you already had covid, getting shots might have bad risk/benefit ratio. (you get all the risk for small additional protection).
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y ago
  It might have a bad risk/benefit ratio. The preliminary evidence I've seen suggests a good risk/benefit ratio. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x >Those who had recovered from COVID-19 months before receiving their jabs harboured antibodies capable of defanging the mutant spike, which displays much more resistance to immune attack than any known naturally occurring variant. These peoples’ antibodies even blocked other types of coronaviruses. “It’s very likely they will be effective against any future variant that SARS-CoV-2 throws against them,” says Hatziioannou.
- greg5green 5y ago
  >People are not usually saying getting covid is better (not without many qualifiers anyway), they are saying that if you already had covid, getting shots might have bad risk/benefit ratio. (you get all the risk for small additional protection). You should really check what people are saying on random posts on Facebook.

UnFleshedOne 5y ago

People are not usually saying getting covid is better (not without many qualifiers anyway), they are saying that if you already had covid, getting shots might have bad risk/benefit ratio. (you get all the risk for small additional protection).

omgwtfbyobbq 5y ago
It might have a bad risk/benefit ratio. The preliminary evidence I've seen suggests a good risk/benefit ratio. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x >Those who had recovered from COVID-19 months before receiving their jabs harboured antibodies capable of defanging the mutant spike, which displays much more resistance to immune attack than any known naturally occurring variant. These peoples’ antibodies even blocked other types of coronaviruses. “It’s very likely they will be effective against any future variant that SARS-CoV-2 throws against them,” says Hatziioannou.
greg5green 5y ago
>People are not usually saying getting covid is better (not without many qualifiers anyway), they are saying that if you already had covid, getting shots might have bad risk/benefit ratio. (you get all the risk for small additional protection). You should really check what people are saying on random posts on Facebook.