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My previous-infection-immunity will be warm comfort while I'm dead from that previous infection or while suffering eons of long-covid disability.
I think this is intended as sarcasm (?) but there’s actually a current line of inquiry around whether the vaccines can help alleviate long COVID symptoms [0].

Anecdotally I have a friend Who had a pretty rough bout of Covid last year and the vaccine seemed to help with his lingering symptoms. So much we still don’t understand about this disease.

[0]: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid

Ah yes, the nebulous "long covid". In my day, we called it hypochondria