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Originally Posted by ikaris
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...465-5/fulltext
Lots of previous discrimination against people who were previously infected but not vaccinated who would have had the same level of immunity as a vaccinated person (Neither vaccination or previous infection seems to stop transmission, but both seem to mostly prevent severe disease.)
This was said early on the pandemic but “the experts” refused to acknowledge this in public policy. Any previous vaccine mandate should have acknowledged previous infection; some European countries did but here it was all about making sure we used those shots we paid for in advance. The US still has a vaccine required for entry.
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No I don’t think that is quite right. There was not an effective policy method given the limited testing available to hand out prior immunity cards. And some jurisdictions did recognize prior immunity like the waiver from negative tests for entry into the states.
If you had infection based immunity exemptions we would have seen pox parties which would have directly hurt the hospital capacity
I think there is this weird look back affect that is leading to an incorrect view of what happened. Most people have moved on so the people who perceived themselves as being harmed see information that may indicate they shouldn’t have been and then use that to argue that policy was incorrect. This isn’t how decision making works. You make decisions with best available information you have at the time.