That's a strawman. Can you instead address this particular bucket: people who have had Covid, and are now wondering if they are as immune as they can hope for, considering all other available interventions.
Merriam-Webster definition of straw man: a weak or imaginary opposition (such as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted
Stating the actual side-effects of one course over the other is neither weak nor imaginary.
* Those who haven't been infected yet
* Those who have already been infected
They're ignoring the second bucket, which is what GP was pointing out - only talking about the first bucket and pretending it applies to both.
* Those who haven't been infected who are wondering if they should not bother with the vaccine if getting infected provides durable immunity.
The answer to that is: the vaccine is orders of magnitude less dangerous than contracting the virus.
Just because you don't address every single group of people in a response does not mean that response is invalid or unimportant.
(The theory is that the vaccine antibodies do a better job of binding to the active site on infectious virus particles than the antibodies induced from infection, which bind to whichever part of the virus, and may bind to the form the active site takes after attaching to a cell, rather than prior)
Also, getting the vaccine as early as it is available is a better way to avoid long Covid than getting the vaccine after you've had a course of infection.
I don't think so. We have multiple links in this thread that say otherwise.
Anyway, available sources so far seem to suggest greater immunity from the vaccine.
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
I guess that would explain how it doesn't fit with this: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/08/covid-19-reinfection-t... (<200 confirmed reinfections worldwide, 82k suspected reinfections worldwide).
They are not "as immune as they can hope for" and would benefit from vaccination, after having had COVID, in that respect.
Links posted already, but mainly https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-you-need-to-get-v...