Legitimate pieces? How about one?
Meantime, let me destroy this one, since you only read headlines (have I reminded you that you absolutely suck at this link game)?
First, the overall premise of the article is to get vaccinated before you get Covid, and not to wait on your body's natural immune system to fight it. That's 80% of the point of the article. Which isn't what we have been discussing. The question is - is natural immunity better than just being vaccinated? Which the answer is overwhelmingly, yes.
Two, you are quoting Johns Hopkins University. You are on official record for discrediting JHU and Doctor Makary. You cannot with any integrity now point to JHU as a legitimate source. Shows your confirmation bias.
Three, Anna Durbin licks Makary's boots. Compare their profiles and awards in the faculty section of JHU. She's literally not on the same plane, but ok.
Four, she makes the same mistakes every other proponent for mass vaccination makes, with some bullshit quotes like:
- "It's Russian roulette," she says. "Young people tend to think they're invincible. But it just takes that one slip and your entire life could change." - she makes the fallacy of spreading misinformation trying to convince young people they are at "risk" from Covid when they are 900% more likely to die from drinking.
- "With the delta variant, we're seeing many more young people on ventilators in hospitals and dying, Durbin says. " - really??? Where are these overwhelming numbers Professor? I mean, substantial, overwhelming evidence that this is of grave concern.
- "And declining the vaccine is more than just a personal decision: An infected person can easily transmit the virus to others, including immunocompromised people at higher risk for grave illness and children under 12 who can't yet access the vaccines." - Ummm, professor, countless studies the world over have shown that the young don't spread Covid. For instance, not one teacher in the UK has gotten Covid from a student. None identified in the US yet either.
- "We're seeing huge rates of hospitalizations and deaths, and you don't want to risk becoming one of those statistics." - actually we are seeing declining rates of deaths. But let's not facts stand in the way Prof.
- "We have evidence showing that if you've been naturally infected with COVID-19 and you aren't vaccinated, your risk of getting reinfected with symptomatic disease is about 2.5–fold higher. " - and there you have it, she references the now very dated, and 250 person study from Kentucky that has been usurped by countless other studies. For a researcher, it's amazing she ignores the newer, larger sample studies that disprove this. I wonder why?
Five, the New England Journal of Medicine:
I'd love to have Prof Durbin look at the NEJM study and compare that with the CDC Kentucky study. They say completely opposite things. Wonder what her position would be then?
Six:
The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.
www.nih.gov
Most recovered COVID-19 patients mount broad, durable immunity after coronavirus infection
www.precisionvaccinations.com
Patients who previously had Covid-19 appeared to have a lower risk of contracting Covid-19 from the delta variant than those who received Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine alone, according to a preprint study from Israel published in medRxiv. However, the authors and other health experts...
www.advisory.com
According to a new study, those who survived COVID-19 have such a strong natural immunity that their chance of reinfection or severe side effects is minimal.
humanevents.com
These data show show that the vaccinated are 10.29 more likely to suffer from severe or critical COVID-19 or death upon reinfection than those with natural immunity.
popularrationalism.substack.com
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