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Comment by jleyank | Hacker News Reader

Natural immunity, for the most part, is quite good and useful. The problem is the cost of getting it - you have to survive the disease... I'm immune to all of the major childhood diseases, but I recall spending a few of my early school years getting sick. Somehow, I even got pneumonia and an ulcer, so I guess elementary school can be stressful?!

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Specifically with Covid it's a timing issue. During initial stages of Covid before most people had it, it made absolute sense to push vaccines. over time though the number of people who had Covid and survived increased. Moreso with new Omicron variant which spread quickly. In South Africa as much as 80% of the population is estimated to have had Covid. So now that the population who has survived covid is significant guidelines on Covid seem to largely ignore this significant population.

Anyone who got tested positive should have been given the same status as someone who got the vaccine.

You shouldn't refuse that just because you are worried people might try to get sick.

You should when those people will overwhelm the hospital system. Even without people trying to get sick, it was touch and go for quite a while. “Pox” parties would have destroyed healthcare.

Now that omicron is proving to not be overwhelming, you’ll start to see restrictions lifted and the unvaxxed who were/get sick will be able to return to civilized society.

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