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Buckeye_Democrat

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4. The vaccines are better. Read that months ago...

Reply to ColinC (Original post)

Fri Sep 10, 2021, 04:09 PM

Sep 2021

... and it still seems to be true.

Edit: I convinced my previously infected brother to get vaccinated after sharing that information with him, weeks ago. His wife died from Covid, by the way, and passed it to him when she became sick last November. He didn't get nearly as sick as her, obviously.

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Is natural immunity better than being vaccinated? [View all] ColinC Sep 2021 OP

I read somewhere that... ret5hd Sep 2021 #1

Good point!! ColinC Sep 2021 #2

You may already be dead! How to tell: ret5hd Sep 2021 #14

Still, it's good to be able to make the argument from a statistically-backed position Hugh_Lebowski Sep 2021 #3

I had the virus. Treefrog Sep 2021 #19

Because you're not obstinate and/or an idiot ... Hugh_Lebowski Sep 2021 #22

Yeah, mine was supposedly "mild" lol. Treefrog Sep 2021 #27

Most likely you'll get worms Alpeduez21 Sep 2021 #5

Slather the corpse in ivermectin. ret5hd Sep 2021 #7

The vaccines are better. Read that months ago... Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #4

That jives with what I've read too. nt. BlueIdaho Sep 2021 #6

Not quite FBaggins Sep 2021 #9

I didn't send him a CDC study, but this instead. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #11

Do you have a link for that? Someone downthread is claiming the opposite and is totodeinhere Sep 2021 #24

I provided a couple links, upthread as another reply. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #25

Thank you. I see that now. n/t totodeinhere Sep 2021 #31

I wouldn't bet the future on Covid stillcool Sep 2021 #8

A recent Israeli study of actual patients concluded Tomconroy Sep 2021 #10

And here it's fact-checked. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #12

What they fact checked was an instagram post Tomconroy Sep 2021 #13

I just noticed that your article mentioned... Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #15

And they should get the jab too, but they won't. Tomconroy Sep 2021 #16

Absolutely. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #18

These people address that in a Facebook post. ColinC Sep 2021 #17

At least in the original facebook post it does conclude that previous infection does provide good im Tomconroy Sep 2021 #21

Absolutely. ColinC Sep 2021 #26

Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19 womanofthehills Sep 2021 #20

If, and it's a big if, there is something to asymptomatic Tomconroy Sep 2021 #23

"The risk for previously infected patients with one dose of the vaccine was lowest of all." gulliver Sep 2021 #28

Definitely not worth getting a potentially deadly disease over a safe vaccine ColinC Sep 2021 #29

Natural is more effective than vaccinated Zeitghost Sep 2021 #30