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Comment by ramraj07 | Hacker News Reader

I got downvoted for saying this here a while back. Anyone with good immunology experience would guess this to be accurate no matter what some half baked study says (which was what a bunch of people were telling in that earlier thread). Again doesn’t mean you should go get Covid or avoid the vaccine. The vaccine only helps. If you got Covid and then also got the vaccine it only helps more.

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Not sure if it was you but I might have been one of the skeptics (don't think it was with this user though). Many of the comments I saw sounded like conspiracy fuel. I didn't downvote anything that sounded substantial (for example if it had references, or at least the disclaimer that this doesn't mean you shouldn't get vaccinated). Makes me wonder how to tell cherry picking science for conspiracy (I saw that heavily with 5G for example) from reality, especially when official outlets are not agreeing with the latest research yet.

The opposite view was a mainstream media narrative last year, in that a suggestion as such was very widely reported:

'The rapid waning of antibodies did not necessarily have implications for the efficacy of vaccine candidates currently in clinical trials, Imperial’s [Wendy] Barclay said.'

“A good vaccine may well be better than natural immunity,” she said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britai...

https://www.google.com/search?q=“A+good+vaccine+may+well+be+...

But the risk of dying of COVID for most age groups is basically zero.

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