[HiTech RedNeck]

The agents still get there, it’s in a different manner.

There will always be tensions about vaccination programs. Enough people exempting themselves from the herd, and herd immunity goes down. Virtue signaling, however, never made a single virus go away.

[Antoninus]

The agents still get there, it’s in a different manner.

True. But take the chicken pox vaccination as an example. If a child gets chicken pox naturally, he's got lifetime immunity, almost guaranteed. With the vaccine, he will need to get regular boosters or his immunity may wear off. In this case, at least, the immunity conferred by a natural infection ends up being better than that from the vaccine. One wonders if that's the case for some other vaccines as well.

That said, I do agree that for illnesses that have higher rates of death and disabilities associated with them, it's better to get the shot. No one would suggest it's better to get something like polio naturally.