Less than 1 percent of people who get COVID the first time have a bad time of it. Anyone taking a vaccine to reduce a less than 1 percent chance doesn’t understand math
Your taking the vaccine is to protect yourself and protect others, also to reduce infections....with the vaccine you are 4 times less likely to get a covid infection, ( we all wish it were better than that), and 11 times less likely to end up in the hospital, needing care for severe illness, than a unvaccinated person who has never had covid.
The more the virus spreads in communities, those odds go down for those vaccinated and at risk.
The more you allow the virus to spread, the greater chance for a new variant where the infection spread is faster, or makes you sicker, has a chance to develop and take over....and a variant to be created that diminishes the effectiveness of the vaccines, that so far are protecting the 90 million American seniors and younger folks that are at high risk of dying with their underlying medical conditions.
Just letting the virus run rampant because many don't get really sick at all, is not a viable solution at this point.
When we can get a vaccine that works better than they do now, maybe letting the young and healthy infecting one another to bring some community herd immunity might have worked.....
But we don't have one now that is that perfect, and can't take that chance. 90 million at high risk American lives are at stake.