Thank you
I'm not going to argue; I now feel that vaccines are more about protecting the individual than the community, so your body your choice.
Yes, I saw that. The request for blood was so that the labs could extract the convalescent plasma. What that is is blood plasma from someone who has recovered which contains the antibodies that fought off the disease. These antibodies were then used in IV's that put them directly into the bloodstream of very sick Covid patients. The antibodies from the recovered person helped the sick person fight the illness.
Since those early days, scientists have been able to create antibodies that serve the same purpose. These are what you may have heard being called "Monoclonal antibodies." Basically "clones" of the antibodies that would have been in the convalescent plasma. This is still a treatment for very ill Covid patients; but since these now exist, there is no longer a need to extract blood plasma from recovered people.
That said, natural immunity is good immunity. It has been shown to keep a person from becoming seriously ill from Covid for at least a few months and, for some variants, even longer. Natural immunity can be thought of as a single dose of mRNA vaccine. Probably even better than a single dose, but probably not as strong as having two doses. Natural immunity does go away quickly - but then again, so does the protection from vaccines. So in the end, I personally would feel pretty safe from catching a bad case of Covid for at least a few months after I'd recovered, but I personally would still take a shot no longer than 3-4 months post-recovery.
The "leadership" on Covid has been a total disaster. The messaging was wrong, the actions were wrong and misguided and on this point we are in complete agreement
