[kwantam]

It's a tempting sound bite, but it's wrong.

First, a real vaccine is designed to be much safer than the disease it protects against (compare extremely rare incidence of vaccine side effects with extremely common incidence of hospitalization for infection). What would be the point otherwise?

Second, in the case of COVID variants prior to Omicron, infection is 5x less effective than vaccination at protecting against future infection: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1029-Vaccination-Of...