I am extremely pro-vax. I’ve had a lot of vaccines I didn’t “need”, and there are others I would get if I were allowed to. (I recently tested negative for every having been exposed to HPV. I’d like to be vaccinated. But “most people my age have already been exposed” so public health rules don’t allow me to get it.)
But I also believe in following the science, and not pretending that disease-induced immunity doesn’t exist.
I don’t believe that marking down verified cases of covid along with verified doses of vaccine in your immunization record is a large strain on the existing system.
And the current theory is that omicron evolved in mice:
The prior theory was that it evolved in a single immune-compromised person who had it for more than a year (and would have caught it before vaccines were available) before it “broke out” from that person to the population. Note that vaccines don’t work very well in immune-compromised people. They should get vaccinated, of course, because it MIGHT help and they are at very high risk, but it often won’t help them. (My mom just died of covid, despite three doses of Pfizer. She was immune compromised. When she tested positive, we all knew the odds were against her.)
We aren’t going to prevent mutations by enforcing vaccination requirements. We are not going to run out of immune-compromised people (I hope!), nor mice. We are probably going to need regular boosters, and there will be regular break-thru cases. We may as well keep track of the information that actually matters. And I believe that that includes having recently recovered from a documented case of covid.
And vaccine-averse yahoos are already intentionally getting covid. At some point, you have to accept that there’s a certain level of stupid that isn’t going away.
We are supposed to be fighting ignorance here, not hiding facts.
