> The rest of the world understands that previously infected people have natural immunity
From your comment I'm not sure you fully understand what that means in terms of COVID-19, and what are the real world implications of natural vs vaccine-induced immune response.
For starters, a prior COVID-19 infection, unlike taking the vaccine, not only leads to a worse and sometimes outright ineffective immune response but also leaves you open to reinfection that are reported to be far more serious and outright deadly.
> and are granted the same freedoms as vaccinated people.
This really depends on which country you opt to cherry pick. In the EU for instance prior infections are not recognized as being the same as vaccination and consequently travellers are not "granted the same rights". For a person who had a previous COVID-19 infection to be granted the same privileges as a fully vaccinated person, that person has to take at least a single dose of a vaccine.
> From the outside looking in this issue looks like Americans having a religious war as usual
From the outside looking in, the only thing that's dumbfounding is this widespread resistence to get the damn shot. Countries like Portugal and Spain already show fully vaccinated rates of around 80% of their population, Canada reports 75%, and unexplainably the US only has around 58% of it's population? What can possibly explain this madness?
> In the EU for instance prior infections are not recognized as being the same as vaccination and consequently travellers are not "granted the same rights". For a person who had a previous COVID-19 infection to be granted the same privileges as a fully vaccinated person, that person has to take at least a single dose of a vaccine.
I don't know where you heard that
"Recovered persons, holding an EU Digital COVID Certificate should be exempt from travel-related testing or quarantine during the first 180 days after a positive PCR test."
> "Recovered persons, holding an EU Digital COVID Certificate should be exempt from travel-related testing or quarantine during the first 180 days after a positive PCR test."
If you pay attention to the source you've cited, you'll notice that:
a) the EU requires a Certificate of Recovery, which has stringent requirements,
b) the EU requires mandatory PCR tests for people holding a Recovery Certificate after 180 days from the positive PCR test, which are not required for fully vaccinated persons,
c) to avoid mandatory PCR tests a recovered person needs to take at least a single dose of a vaccine.
If you read your source, you'll eventually get to this info.
Yes the stringent requirement of getting a test that proves that you've recovered.
You can also get a test certificate after getting a RAT test in any drop-in testing center 30 mins before you travel.
The fact is that the rest of the world understands this while in the US you will chant the mantra "trust the science" while ignoring the science because this like everything has been turned into a religious war between the two halves of the political spectrum
The rest of the world understands that previously infected people have natural immunity and are granted the same freedoms as vaccinated people.
From the outside looking in this issue looks like Americans having a religious war as usual