BruceP wrote:Oh, well that's just great. Now we're going to have another cycle of conspiracy theories fuelled by the baseless assumption that those pfizer scientists know what they're talking about.
I can see it now, they'll be spreading the misinformed notion that millions of people have been infected and re-infected by the covids an unknown number of times and remained asymptomatic the entire time because their natural immunity and general health allowed them to skate the infection.
And I'll get lumped in with those people because I choose to remain neutral and noncommittal in my stance on this whole mess.
Hermann G. will continue to lob his dirty irony diapers at me with his hypocrite cannon, and continue to miss with every salvo - "why won't this simple-minded coward just tell us where he stands on the issue so we can compartmentalize him!?" And he'll have Graham on his 4 looking through the binocs, backwards - "That was a direct hit, Mein Herr! I don't deserve you!!"
How can one not laugh?
I mean, what kind of truth bomb do you think you're dropping here. It's well known that surviving the actual disease will convey stronger immunity than the vaccine. I mean that's immunization 101.
The problem is, and stick with me here, you might die in the process of developing that immunity.
The vaccine prepares your immune system to better handle the virus and increase the chances you'll survive contact.
And here's the thing, they complement each other. Surviving COVID-19 plus receiving the vaccine confers greater immunity than either of them alone, no matter which order you got them in.
So in an ideal situation, sure, you're one of the lucky ones who get it and survive. Not one of the 700,000 in the US who have died of it.
Second best is hedging your bet, you get the shot, get vaccine immunity, then encounter COVID-19, survive a mild case, and now you're even more immune and less likely to subsequently get ill.
And the best part is, there is extensive data to show that vaccinated people are less likely to have severe cases and die. Some still do, sure. It happens, but not nearly as many as among the unvaccinated.
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2282But don't take my word for it, feel free to scroll through pages of evidence.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/I mean, dude, pick your gamble either way. The math strongly favors vaccination with a lot more evidence than ivermectin.