Let me make it easy:
1. majority of infections happened pre-vaccine rollout.
2. we created a system that locked people out based on vaccine status.
3. the system should have included those with natural immunity.
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There is no nuance. The message couldn't be clearer: if you take the vaccine then the odds you'll die from COVID are way lower than if you do not.
And reality does not lie: the bulk of COVID deaths come from unvaccinated people.
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/04/scicheck-covid-19-data-com...
Enough with all this misinformed or disinformed bullshit.
> it's well established that those who contract COVID .. will have a good immunity response for subsequent infections.
> those who survive a COVID infection do end up with an immune system that is able to handle COVID.
It seems like we're on the same page here.
i.e let's lie and say natural immunity does _not_ work, that way people are more likely to get vaccinated. It's for their own good, the common folk don't know any better!
Look at Japan and Russia. Japan was highly compliant with lockdowns, masks, and vaccine inoculation. Russia was the exact opposite. The difference being trust in institutions. You could argue lives were lost in Russia because of the inherent distrust.
In parallel, the USA was caught telling blatant lies. This is exactly what spooked and outraged so many people ultimately fueling the anti-vax movement. "If they're lying about this, what else are they lying about?"
No truth, no trust. The USA lost trust, and lost lives as a result.
Many more people would have skipped out on getting it because they thought they had COVID. Because their immunity had waned or because they never really had COVID. I personally know someone that didn't get vaccinated because she had COVID previously. She caught it again in the Delta wave and it killed her. She never had a verified diagnosis the first time, so she may not have had it. But, even if she did, getting vaccinated would have likely boosted her immunity.