Here's one interesting observation from the week since I filed my case: some vaccinated people lecture me that Covid-recovered should get forced vax despite the fact that there is no trial data on safety (Covid-recovered were purposely excluded from the trial)...
and that there is not just the ordinary risk of side-effects (which is why responsible doctors ALWAYS avoid unnecessary treatments and procedures including vaccination) but actually ELEVATED risks of adverse effects...
because in their opinion (after reading a blog post describing a news article about one study that they have no idea of the quality or other contrary evidence) they conclude that it would enhance immunity protection...
Yet when you ask them if they should be forced to intentionally infect themselves with Covid so that they would "enhance" their vaccine infection with natural immunity, all of a sudden the marginal risk relative to the marginal benefit becomes really important!
In other words, when it comes to my health, risk doesn't matter if they think it will benefit them, no matter how infinitesimally and speculatively. But when it comes to them doing the same, its all about the risk!
Usually this is followed by a lecture about how great their vaccine protection is, and so how really even if they were to get a breakthrough infection its no big deal, because they are protected from serious disease....
Nothing is holding you back from volunteering to lead by example! Please arrange to intentionally get infected and augment with natural immunity. And if you aren't willing to do that because you think the risk>benefit, why would you possibly think you should coerce me?
We both have immunity. NEITHER form of additional immunity is risk free. But the difference is that its pretty well recognized that vax+NI actually would increase overall immunity and variant protection.
Whereas minimal evidence that NI+full vax provides minimal benefit relative to (elevated) risks).
PS: Just a little tip, if you haven't actually suffered through Covid, its really really not a good look to lecture those of us who have that we are being reckless or dismissive. I am quite, quite certain I know more about what it is like to have Covid than you.
I have had Covid. I don't want to get Covid again. I don't want to expose any of my family, friends, or anyone else to Covid. If there was reason for to believe that AT THE CURRENT TIME the marginal benefit of vax>marginal risk, the my immunologist and I would do it. Duh.
But seriously folks, you aren't my doctor. You know NOTHING about my medical history or current level of immune protection. So how about you don't force unnecessary and potentially risky medical procedures on me because you read a headline in a news article about a study...
Unless you are willing to walk the walk and voluntarily infect yourself to gain natural immunity. Otherwise, its really time for you to stop coercing paint-by-numbers, one-size-fits-all algorithmic medicine on everyone else.
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