I’m watching everyone from Nate Silver (a math/sports guy who thinks he can weigh in on epidemeology) to other people who should know better post about a preprint study out of Israel that seems to indicate that you have better immunity if you get covid19 than if you’re vaccinated.

There’s a huge fucking caveat there. A percentage get long covid, with crippling disabilities like the inability to smell or walk distances. A percentage get hospitalized. A percentage of people who get covid19 naturally die.

Vaccinations pretty much prevent all of that, or greatly reduce the chances you’ll develop a debilitating case of covid. It limits sick time and the economic harms of coming down with covid, spreading it to family/friends, etc.

So yeah, covid naturally might confer higher antibody reaction, but the cost is deadly.

The only bombshell here is the number of people who’d have to die or be hospitalized to effectuate the protections against delta by getting infected.

The safest route to ending pandemic is vaccinations and masking. https://t.co/9IsauGeLY9

— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 27, 2021