Thread by @neontaster

I don't know that any other facet of covid has been more politicized and less fact-based than natural immunity, and the vast majority of it is reactive because god forbid you give the vax skeptical any ammo, even if they happen to be right about something.

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1484161611044638721

Yeah 800,000 people died, but at least 100 million Americans had gotten covid in 2020 alone. So your 800,000 sounds large, but it's way less than 1% of the total number of Americans who got covid.

https://twitter.com/NeverTrumpTexan/status/1484164048497397769

Source: publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-…

Can you actually read? How is that remotely relevant to this discussion? Start a blog if you want to cry about the death toll. Refuting the idea of natural immunity by mentioning that less than 1% died of it makes zero sense.

https://twitter.com/ThatMattOBrien/status/1484167351545339905

Can you actually read? The original tweet I responded to compares natural immunity AND a vaccine to a vaccine alone, not to the unvaccinated.

https://twitter.com/NeverTrumpTexan/status/1484167954963042306

The word is "fewer" and you invented an enemy in your head and got mad that your enemy existed. You just decided that I was arguing that vaccines are dangerous because it's your only way to try and not look like a fool right now.

https://twitter.com/NeverTrumpTexan/status/1484168507554213891

No, that is what you decided I'm arguing because you can't address my argument, which is that ANY efficacy of natural immunity is dismissed as an anti-vaxxer conspiracy - something YOU ARE LITERALLY DOING RIGHT NOW.

https://twitter.com/NeverTrumpTexan/status/1484169234758483970

I want you to specifically show me where the word "instead" was used anywhere in this discussion. If you can't, I expect you to come back here and apologize for being wrong.

https://twitter.com/NeverTrumpTexan/status/1484169775240691715

All this person is doing is showing that the resistance to discussing natural immunity is motivated by the policy fear that people will opt to get covid instead of vaccinated. Just more Noble Lies meant to prevent potentially undesirable behavioral outcomes.