There's always a first time for everyone. After three years of living life virus free, I got Covid-19 from a friend after attending a concert recently. However, to my surprise, my first experience wasn't all that terrible. I felt mildly ill, with fever and body aches, but no sore throat or a lung infection. Fortunately, I was able to look after myself at home and the symptoms only lasted a week.
This is probably ironic to say, but getting infected has some positives, as it's proven that my history of vaccination and boosters actually worked. We have been fighting against something that isn't visible to the naked eye, and you will never know for sure whether the vaccines would really protect you if you have never been sick. It's almost like we are wasting a good amount of money each year on insurance companies while staying healthy. We'll never know if those insurance companies would provide us with enough satisfaction if we've never been sick. Of course, it would have been better to never get infected at all because we have learned that some may suffer long-term health problems even after recovering. But we all knew it's almost impossible to avoid it forever.
The Center for Medical Genomics, Ramathibodi Hospital, recently posted a message according to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, which stated that a full dose or two vaccinations, were critical in order to reduce morbidity, death and mutations and that 70% of the world's population should be vaccinated as per guidelines from the World Health Organization. However, they also admit that "natural protective immunity" gained from infection is superior to immunity obtained from the vaccine, and the risk of getting sick is reduced by 55.3 times.
