This is exactly what the numbers support. both diseases have deaths on the order of 1/100,000 inflections for young children.
>Furthermore, we don't know what if any protection childhood infection would give later in life - certainly reinfection in adults is common, with no guarantee that symptoms are less severe.
All of the covid data we have suggests that infection symptoms are less severe if people have immunity from vaccine or prior illness.
>To take any approach that allows the widespread circulation of Covid is reckless at best at this moment, particularly when we do have the tools available to us to control it (mandatory vaccination and targeted lockdowns).
Vaccines and lockdowns can help control the spread, but will never be enough to prevent it from being endemic. Vaccinated individuals can spread the disease and it is in animal populations around the world.