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by HWR_14 1735 days ago
People get sick with COVID multiple times, and natural immunity is more hit-or-miss with regards to protection against variants. Reinfections are also frequently nastier than the first infection. It also costs absolutely nothing and at worst will act as an additional safety that makes you feel uncomfortable for a few days.

So why not get vaccinated?

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The research I've seen is that people with a previous infection are much more protected than the vaccinated.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

Why would a reinfection be worse? How would the spike proteins in the pfizer, moderna, and J&J shots work at all if that was the case?
> Why would a reinfection be worse?

I'm not a doctor. There are numerous reports from people who got a second infection that it was worse.