I think dismissing natural immunity is direct reaction to the stupidity that emerged in beginning of the pandemic: great barrington declaration, Tegnell, UK ini

I think dismissing natural immunity is direct reaction to the stupidity that emerged in beginning of the pandemic: great barrington declaration, Tegnell, UK initial response etc. We know how it worked out - a lot of people died, even worse virus variants appeared. It really did not work, it was not a solution. But this handling of the issue made the things even worse because it gave fuel for the conspiracy theorists, quacks, pseudo medicine followers etc. How it should have been handled? By acknowledging possibility that it will give good protection for reinfection and verifying it by studies and constantly verifying it for new variants, by giving convalescents similar treatment that has been given to vaccinated - these people have suffered enough, most likely they did not seek out the disease, they got bad luck, so let them be, by encouraging them still to get vaccinated to improve their likelihood to not catch it again, by explaining that seeking out virus is by any means is really not a good idea and can result in very bad outcomes. That is - treating people as they are not complete morons. The situation in EU has been a little better. Here at least having confirmed infection has been recognized to provide limited time protection but there are still issues with this.