The science tells us about the efficacy of the vaccine versus catching Covid for prevention of future disease.
First, I must point out that the antivax narrative seems to be that getting immunity is an important stand-alone health goal. It is not. Immunity functions to prevent or greatly reduce the severity of disease. If you believe that a disease is so dangerous that you need to be immune from it, but your method of becoming immune is to catch the disease, there is something seriously wrong with your logic circuits (to say the least).
The vaccine is designed to induce the production of antibodies that knock out the function of the spike protein while it is on the surface of the virus.
When a person gets sick with Covid, they might not have an immune response at all. Autopsies have shown that lymph nodes in fatal cases of Covid were destroyed by infecting viruses. Or, if they have an immune response, it isn’t to the spike protein as it exists on the surface of the virus. The spike protein both is cut and changes shape when the virus uses it to get inside a cell. The immune response during infection can target any of the 29 proteins of the virus. And even if it does target the spike, it is targeting the used spike fragments left over after the virus enters the cell. Antibodies against used spike protein aren’t as effective as antibodies against the unused spikes covering the virus.
It’s quite true that someone who keeps catching Covid over and over (and still refuses to get vaccinated) is not exactly a ringing endorsement of disease-induced immunity. Because SARS-CoV-2 viruses infect several organs and many of those organs (like the heart) do not heal rapidly, the damage caused by repeated Covid infections is cumulative. It’s much better to just get vaccinated.
“It’s quite true that someone who keeps catching Covid over and over (and still refuses to get vaccinated) is not exactly a ringing endorsement of disease-induced immunity.”
“ It’s much better to just get vaccinated.”
Just Wow! The only people I know who have experienced COVID more than once are the vaccinated. No, it’s not BEST just to get jabbed. Nope. But you go ahead and do you.
What people don’t like is this: they don’t know where the spike protein generated by the vaccines are going, and sticking to, in the body. The furan unit is ‘humanized’, meaning that it matches up with human cells. It can attach in capillaries and in lymph nodes. This can lead to clotting upon the body’s natural response. The clots can break loose and do damage, sometimes fatal damage.
Plenty of people don’t want to risk it.
That’s pretty good satire!