Fauci: Which Is Better, Vaccine or Natural Immunity?

In response to a question about an Israeli study, which found that natural immunity provides better protection against the Covid Delta variant than the vaccine, Fauci said that it is not clear which is better.

Israeli study: Natural immunity gives better protection than COVID shot
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/312637

I believe this applies only to the Delta variant. If you develop natural immunity to Delta, you probably won't catch it again, but you probably *can* be infected by other variants.

When you are infected to a whole virus, however, you will develop a broader immunity for the whole virus, whose body consists of 30 proteins, from what I read. With the vaccine you are only exposed to the one protein out of 30, the spike protein. So, each time you are infected with a variant, you should be developing a much broader immunity can you can get from the vaccine.

I had Covid before the vaccine was available and it was a very mild case. I had it a second time and it was very mild the second time, too. So, even though I am a senior, I don't have serious health issues and don't feel I am at high risk. For that reason I prefer to remain unvaxxed, continue to be exposed to the virus and gradually develop a much broader resistance to the virus than I believe the vaccine can provide.

I don't think this cold virus is suddenly going to morph into something like Smallpox, polio or Ebola. If I felt that I am at very high risk, I would take the vaccine.