It's over

[masterfins]

False.  Fundamentally, it doesn't even make sense: you can't avoid getting sick by allowing yourself to get sick on purpose.  You've already lost.

If you squint really hard, vaccines might seem like a variation on that premise.  But the reason why vaccines work is that you get the protection of a recovered sick person without suffering the sickness itself.  However, a vaccine that caused the same symptoms as the sickness it "protects" from would be worthless; if you could get paralyzed by the polio vaccine, or if the COVID vaccine could put you on a ventilator, there would be no point in them.  (Some people might be inclined to point out that COVID vaccines can cause muscle aches and mild fever; if those were the most dangerous symptoms of COVID, there wouldn't even BE a COVID vaccine because no one would give a damn.)

We have many centuries of evidence that getting sick and building a natural resistance does not make you healthier.  Getting sick means you got sick, and it doesn't prevent you from getting sick with something else later.  It only makes you less likely to get sick AGAIN from the same thing, which makes you worse off than the person who avoided getting sick in the first place.

I didn't mean to imply that on an "individual" level, but rather that on an evolutionary level.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I didn't mean to imply that on an "individual" level, but rather that on an evolutionary level.

Under very specific conditions that is possible, but those conditions don’t exist for Covid.

Those conditions are as follows:

1.  The vast majority of those who die of the disease  do so BEFORE childbearing age.  A disease that is primarily lethal to old people will not benefit from natural selection.  So Covid fails.

2.  Natural immunity to the disease is hereditary.  Quite frankly we don’t know.  But given that there hasn’t been any evidence of homogeneous reactions within families, this is doubtful.