Saw my allergist today for annual checkup. As we were finishing up I brought up the whole issue of "do you need a vaccine if you just had the virus". And she fucking W-E-N-T-O-F-T!
Said the idea that an immunized person would be any more protected or less likely to pass on the virus than someone who just got the COVID, or that someone who has recently had the COVID would increase protection with an immunization is just crazy.
She then jumped off of that and went into a rant about how big pharma and the CDC have made it so much harder to do the right thing, which was to immunize everyone once here, and then focus on the rest of the world getting one shot before we worried about boosters. At the very least we should have provided assistance to them in getting their folks immunized with non-Pfizer/Moderna/J&J alternatives.
Very disappointed in the current CDC, which seems "more captive and less credible" every day.
Doctors -- pretty confident, self-righteous dudes, on the whole.