347893 wrote:
This spread is idiotic. While you guys are still debating on something that isn't a debate, another 1,150 people died yesterday from Covid19 Delta variant. With literally all of them unvaccinated.
I keep hearing about this stupid logic that being naturally immunized is better than the vaccine. So how do you know you have a natural immunity to the Delta variant unless you catch it? You could end up sick and die like one of my close college friend. You could be hospitalized like thousands of healthy kids have been. You could end up sick and become a long hauler, still trying to get healthy many months later. Or you could take the vaccine and drastically reduce the chance of catching it, passing it, getting sick and dying.
How many have to die before you knuckleheads understand?
Literally all of them were unvaccinated? You sound pretty sure of yourself. In the Tri-county health department of Colorado, 41.18% of the deaths so far in November are among fully vaccinated individuals:
https://tchd.org/823/COVID-19-DataThe sad truth is that when the CDC saw the data coming out of Israel, they stopped officially counting breakthrough cases back in May, so that individuals like yourself would still believe that vaccines remained largely effective. The reality is that those with a previous COVID infection are getting sick at a far lower rate than those who have only been vaccinated (in Mesa County, the most recent weekly breakthrough infection rate was 28.1 cases per 10K fully vaccinated individuals, whereas the reinfection rate was 4.2 per 10k individuals with a previously confirmed COVID infection).
If you want to confirm that you have had a natural infection before getting a shot, you can take an N-type antibody test (vaccinated and people with a natural infection will both test positive on an S-type antibody test that only checks for the antibodies that work on the Spike protein, but only those who have had a natural infection will have the N-type antibodies). That is the primary reason that a naturally acquired infection has more robust immunity than vaccinated immunity, because while the current vaccines will give an individual protection against about three protein markers from the original alpha strain of COVID, a naturally acquired infection (assuming you survived it) will provide protection against dozens of protein markers (which tend to express themselves in various extents on the variants).
The debate is about individual liberty and the logic of mandates. If the vaccines were holding strong, if natural immunity was inferior and if healthy kids were getting sick and hospitalized (this is extraordinarily rare, the few kids that have succumbed to COVID typically have had severe pre-existing conditions), then universal mandates might be appropriate. However, those things are not happening. Vaccines are failing rapidly (at this point, a vaccinated individual is almost as much of a threat to others as an unvaccinated individual), natural immunity is far superior to vaccinated immunity (an individual with a prior COVID infection is far less of a threat towards others than an individual who has only been vaccinated) and children are not dying or being hospitalized at a rate significantly different than their historical averages in spite of schools being held in person.