It wouldn't matter if "natural infection" did give you better protection against reinfection anyway because the vaccine provides protection against death and se

It wouldn't matter if "natural infection" did give you better protection against reinfection anyway because the vaccine provides protection against death and severe illness while getting infected without being vaccinated greatly increases those same risks. You'd have to be a fool to risk death, serious illness, and long term (if not lifelong) consciousness over the risk of having a sore arm for a day just to get a bump in protection against a possible reinfection in the future, especially when spreading the virus is what leads to variants which can evolve to evade those same defenses. The science and the math on this haven't changed at all, but that didn't stop antivaxxers from grasping at anything they could find to push people into getting themselves and their children infected as quickly as possible for that sweet "natural protection". If people want to say that science became a "team sport" lets not forget that the team they were playing against was "team virus" and there were a shocking amount of hardcore virus fans pushing for policies and practices that would clearly result in more people getting infected.