If someone has antibodies, you’re not exposing them to covid. That ship has sailed, as it were.I'm not a virologist or any type of medical professional. Frankly it's up to them to determine the best way to ensure the force gets the immunity they need. But I'm not surprised that they've chosen a vax over exposing everyone to COVID as I imagine it offers the least bad path to getting the force immunity in a short and safe path. And why it's been commonly used for all the other pathogens that folks get jabs for.
If the DOD actually cared about prevalence, outcomes, and the health of the force, they would’ve done a blood draw on all of us a long time ago to figure out how widespread covid infections were and how much of the force was immune. I have to get an HIV draw each year, covid would be easy.
But they didn’t, because they just want to be able to report 100% compliance with the mandate and that everyone else is being punished accordingly.