If the goal is to get exposed to COVID shortly after recovering from, it seems simpler and more fun to just live your life like it’s 2019 and get exposed the normal way? Best case, you don’t get COVID again; worst case you get COVID again like you’re wanting.
The point is that 1) after omicron recedes, there won’t be much infection going around for a while, local spread should go near zero; and 2) if you get infected from your own previous illness, it is guaranteed your body has defeated that specific pathogen (variants, mutations) and should – given you still have immunity as you have recovered – be able to defeat it again, better than random other person’s variant. Your own previous illness should be safer for you than random other person’s random illness.
So if I don’t get ill but remain immunonaive aside vaccine, surely then I will just enjoy my infection-free life until the next wave. But if I get infected, and there is not likely new vaccine doses available, I have interest on keeping my immunity against infection high with repeated infections the body has learned to repel. That way the next wave in around 2022-08 should have much lower probability to give me an actual infection.
If the goal is to get exposed to COVID shortly after recovering from, it seems simpler and more fun to just live your life like it’s 2019 and get exposed the normal way? Best case, you don’t get COVID again; worst case you get COVID again like you’re wanting.
https://xkcd.com/2557/
The point is that 1) after omicron recedes, there won’t be much infection going around for a while, local spread should go near zero; and 2) if you get infected from your own previous illness, it is guaranteed your body has defeated that specific pathogen (variants, mutations) and should – given you still have immunity as you have recovered – be able to defeat it again, better than random other person’s variant. Your own previous illness should be safer for you than random other person’s random illness.
So if I don’t get ill but remain immunonaive aside vaccine, surely then I will just enjoy my infection-free life until the next wave. But if I get infected, and there is not likely new vaccine doses available, I have interest on keeping my immunity against infection high with repeated infections the body has learned to repel. That way the next wave in around 2022-08 should have much lower probability to give me an actual infection.