Graceful apologies for stepping into tardhaven, but there's already decent evidence that getting COVID gives you fewer months of immunity than a two-shot vaccination does (as expected), which is why at least a single shot as a booster to the immune response you mounted while infected has been recommended. If you have had COVID and you are in a vulnerable population, it's still worth it to at least get a single shot, as single shot booster treatment becomes available.
More on the topic of "social responsibility," the goal is to slow the spread in general, and it's hard to do that if retarded college kids pass it around between themselves indefinitely. The pooch was screwed harder than a white girl's Maltese the moment it got into the US, and again when the feds didn't bother to shut down state borders, but there's still some hope of limiting COVID's existence entirely in rural & outlying areas by way of vaccination. That's a narrative war, and it's one being lost to screeching paranoia. We are unlikely to ever contain and eliminate COVID in the way that we eliminated Smallpox, because at some point some asshole decided "not wanting to get vaccinated" was a personality.
Aside from that, boosters are already being developed already for new strains, enough sensible people are being vaccinated, and ICU bed occupancy has mostly recovered from the highs of last year and earlier this year (down to 6% COVID occupancy from avg 30-40% in February pre vaccination wave), so we're at a point where the most vulnerable are nearly safe, and the general population playing their luck can enjoy the consequences (or lack thereof) without fucking over everyone else.
I feel for the people in the backwoods getting fucked by the situation, and for the asthmatic immunocompromised boomers who got taken in by whinging and conspiracy theories and will be dying in hospital beds for decades to come, but the mass doom and gloom markers have IMO entirely passed by. A lot of healthcare providers and experts are still so anxious with how close things came to the brink despite initially downplaying the disease that they're in full panic mode, and I'm not sure that's the right call, either.
