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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by summerlight on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:07PM (#28532117)
> Also, in many cases, "proof of vaccination" includes a cell phone photo of the piece of paper they handed out when you got a vaccine, so as it stands, lying is pretty easy.

One critical difference is that there will be legal consequences if you're using a fake proof of vaccination.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by djrogers on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:16PM (#28532224)
That makes absolutely no sense, why would the same penalties not apply for lying about natural immunity?
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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by summerlight on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:41PM (#28533079)
Because we don't have a good legal definition of "natural immunity"? Compared to that, vaccination status is official record which is subject to forgery law and its effectiveness has been well studied against most COVID variants.

Note that it is pretty tricky to define natural immunity in a legal way since there is no good scientific consensus on the correlation between some proxy of natural immunity (e.g. antibody level) and its effectiveness against infection/transmission.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by throwaway894345 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:29AM (#28539507)
> Because we don't have a good legal definition of "natural immunity"?

The obvious solution is to use "positive COVID or serological test" as the legal standard.

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