Louis Gossett Jr
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If you want a real answer for the why doesn’t I got covid count is because not all covid infections are created equal. In a healthcare setting your number one job is to do no harm, which starts with protecting patients from yourself, be that vaccines, surgical masks, clean operating SOPs and and so forth.
So you develop a simple process for ensuring your patient population is protected, vaccines. Why is it simple, because it’s easily documented and their is way less person to person variability in immune response to the vaccine than to an actual viral infection. Yes, natural immunity can provide protection, and for some longer lasting or better than the vaccine, but others not so. What’s even better is prior covid plus singular vaccine, that I think with documentation there should be no need for a two shot vaccine regiment.
There’s the rub though, documentation, how are you proving your prior covid infection? Antibodies, those don’t necessarily correlate 1 to 1, and you would need to run a much more complicated test than the hey look you have antibodies thanks Ted cross, plus you are now introducing another layer and special process for those that were previously infected, and there’s no good answer why when those individuals can just get the vaccine, free, with no special process. What are you afraid of from a vaccine that mimics in a safer way the natural infection of covid which you already had?
What’s really happening is, one you have a bunch of people pushing natural immunity should count as a rallying cry for not getting vaccinated, even if they haven’t been previously infected, like it will be some chicken pox party even though the dangers are vastly greater. Second, you have a very very slim minority of healthcare workers making a lot of noise about not being vaccinated and getting fired when the numbers never match the outrage, like small percentages but in an already taxed system I suppose those can add up.
So you develop a simple process for ensuring your patient population is protected, vaccines. Why is it simple, because it’s easily documented and their is way less person to person variability in immune response to the vaccine than to an actual viral infection. Yes, natural immunity can provide protection, and for some longer lasting or better than the vaccine, but others not so. What’s even better is prior covid plus singular vaccine, that I think with documentation there should be no need for a two shot vaccine regiment.
There’s the rub though, documentation, how are you proving your prior covid infection? Antibodies, those don’t necessarily correlate 1 to 1, and you would need to run a much more complicated test than the hey look you have antibodies thanks Ted cross, plus you are now introducing another layer and special process for those that were previously infected, and there’s no good answer why when those individuals can just get the vaccine, free, with no special process. What are you afraid of from a vaccine that mimics in a safer way the natural infection of covid which you already had?
What’s really happening is, one you have a bunch of people pushing natural immunity should count as a rallying cry for not getting vaccinated, even if they haven’t been previously infected, like it will be some chicken pox party even though the dangers are vastly greater. Second, you have a very very slim minority of healthcare workers making a lot of noise about not being vaccinated and getting fired when the numbers never match the outrage, like small percentages but in an already taxed system I suppose those can add up.
