Evidence is now clear that in fact, "natural" antibody response is not as effective as the mRNA vaccines. And no one knows the length of antibody activity at this time.
This is correct.
Funny, I just took a phone call yesterday from a business owner who I have dealt with in the past. She wanted to know about the status of the federal vaccine mandate (it's lingering, no immediate action pending anytime soon - likely be 1Q 2022 before anything is decided - it's going to SCOTUS regardless of what the Sixth Circuit decides). Any way, she also wanted to know if vaccinations would be required for those who already had Covid because, you know, those people are "27 more times protected against a re-infection as those who are vaccinated". I had to gently tell her "no, m'am, that's not the best information available." I advised her that, while "natural immunity" based on prior infection is certainly valuable, and that it could surely be enough to prevent one from being re-infected, there is no credible data out there to suggest it's better than vaccinations. Data is piling up by the day that vaccines are more effective at preventing infection than "natural immunity". It's better than nothing, sure, but it's not better than a double dose of one of the vaccines (which, as has been pointed out, are NOT "experimental"). There really is no substantive scientific debate about it. A few outliers with agendas, sure (Scott Atlas, anyone?) but.........it's background noise.
Thankfully, as she always has been when I've had to correct her misinformation during prior interactions, she was very receptive, not argumentative at all. She wanted to know what information I was working from ("CDC?"), and I politely explained that the CDC is the clearinghouse for all the in-house studies being done by teaching hospitals, healthcare foundations and institutions, regional health departments, etc. They're crunching their numbers and passing them on: some are on a community-wide basis, county-wide, state-wide, even hospital-wide. All manner of numbers are coming in daily from anyone and eveyone who has a hand in tracking, diagnosing and treating Covid cases. It's unfortunate that the other side just keeps making stuff up at almost the same pace in their zeal to deny reality. A large portion of the garbage being pushed out is nothing more than Russian and Chinese propaganda. You don't think they're busily taking notes on how easy it would be to effect a massively successfuly biological attack on America, do you? Hell, now they see how easy it would be to kill off hundreds of thousands of Americans because...................."freedom". Very easy to politically divide and conquer with simple propganda. Make it about..........masks. Make it about something that Americans of all stripe have gotten for DECADES: vaccinations. Little Johnny play Little League? He needed a "forced medical procedure" in the way of a simple physical exam. "Forced immunization" to attend grade school. Now suddenly this is new? Time to plant a political flag about "too much government control!"?
They're now calling it a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" for good reason. When 99+% of serious hospitalizations and deaths are of the unvaccinated....well.
Look at this way: if you walk into a casino and have a 99-to-1 chance of winning $1,000,000 on a $10,000 bet.........who's NOT going to take those odds in a New York minute? You'd be crazy not to, right?
