If you've had covid and have immunity, you personally stand a good chance of not needing the vaccine. But it's still a good idea to get it. Why? Because not everyone's immune response is the same. Someone with a mild infection may have had a weak immune response. Since it is not practical to assess everyone's level of antibodies in order to determine who has a strong immune response, it is easier to just vax everyone. It's an extra--and more importantly uniform and predictable--layer of protection. In short, you do it for the community, not just yourself.
I said ICU numbers are not a good way of gauging vaccine effectiveness and they are not. However they quite obviously are an excellent thing to track when you're concerned about ICU capacity.
A vaccine's purpose and a seatbelt's are ultimately the same. They both aim to minimize death.
Good points, as usual. We obviously have some nuanced perspectives and disagree on others.
I’ll go as far as saying everyone should do their research, assess their risk factors, and get the vaccine accordingly. But I’m completely fine with people, regardless of their risk factors, refusing to get vaccinated. If we don’t have bodily autonomy, what do we have? One day you’ll be forced to do something you don’t want to do.
Anecdotal, but here’s something interesting about natural immunity. I was talking to a friend yesterday that I spent the evening with the night before I had full blown Covid symptoms. I asked her if she ended up getting sick or anything. She said she got nothing. She had Covid last year, probably delta, possibly alpha. Even though I contact traced her at the time, I was very happy she didn’t end up get sick. Very impressive that after a year she was not affected at all. YYMV, though, as we say in here.
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