[wimagguc]

If the goal is immunity to Covid-19, isn't it simpler to just: catch it?

To be on the safe side, they could have lowered the risks of a bad outcome by things like (1) catching a smaller viral load (2) actually prepare for it and catch it at a convenient time etc. (Someone who's actually interested would research this longer.)

Surely it's safer than the home cooked vaccine, and surely the favorable option on a risk vs potential benefit analysis. Would make for a boring blog post though.

[andai]

This is my perspective. (No luck yet!) From what I am hearing it doesn't matter though, I will need to get vaccinated anyway to be allowed to travel etc.

[dmichulke]

I believe the unstated secondary objective is staying alive (or at least optimizing the probabilities).

Not the author though, so take it with a grain of salt ;-)

[ianlevesque]

Enjoy your round two with a variant though.