To begin, natural immunity doesn’t =/= herd immunity. With covid whatever immunity you have/had (naturally acquired or vaccine induced) wanes over months
The arguement for vaccine induced immunity is that the chance of dying from a covid shot are around 1/1,000,000 (chances of SAE more like 1/20-30,000). An at risk individual is WAY more likely to die from covid (if you are 85+ years old you have a 5%+ chance of dying).
I dislike the idea of vaccine mandates to leave the house like we had in Aus… I think those were representative of government overreach.
However vaccine mandates to get kids into preschool, to travel etc have been around for aaaaggggeeesss.
The vaccine we have was modelled off the alpha variant of covid, and even then modelling was never indicative it would provide herd immunity.
While the current vaccine still reduces the chances of procuring severe illness (in Australia the 4% of the population that isn’t vaccinated makes up 30% of all covid deaths), it is damn near useless at ensuring you don’t actually get covid.
The spike protein on the surface of the strains currently going around have so many new mutations that distinguish them from the alpha variant of covid… mutations that allow new variants to evade existing immunity generated from vaccine or previous infection.
However some degree of neutralisation still occurs. Hence why if you’ve had say… the alpha variant, and now you get omicron (notwithstanding omicron isn’t as deadly anyway) you won’t get as sick.
There is no difference between natural immunity from having gotten infected with the alpha variant vs taking the vaccine.
Secondly… this link
Has nothing to do with their vaccine. That’s once again… finding a pattern/connection when there isn’t a definitive pattern.
Purdue maliciously marketed oxycodone/oxycontin as a drug that wasn’t habit forming. Purdue also manufacturs betadiene (antiseptic)… what does purdues behaviour with oxy have to do with betadiene?
What does pfizers behaviour with antipsychotic meds have to do with vaccines?