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It does.
Not even the CDC claims that it does. "The primary goal of the COVID-19 vaccination program is to prevent severe illness and death" and "symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection," not asymptomatic infection (which is far from harmless)
Don't claim there is proof that it wasn't without providing said proof
As far as I'm aware, it is far from settled when cases first appeared in the US
You might live in a bubble, because covid is everywhere
Rapid tests that rely on nasal swabs are prone to false negatives, so a lot of people get mild symptoms like sniffles or an itchy throat, test negative, and then assume they don't have covid when they actually might
Mild symptoms don't mean mild disease, either -- there are people who never show symptoms and still end up with vascular damage. It's never a good idea to only judge a virus by its acute symptoms
@Nazareno catching covid does not "build" your immune system. Infection-based immunity is extraordinarily fleeting and does not pay dividends on the damage the virus has already done, even in asymptomatic infections (which you may have had). Symptoms are not the same as underlying disease. HIV is famous for starting as a cold and then doing all of its damage silently
Furthermore, the immune system is not analogous to a muscle that needs to be used to be kept in shape, and the complete opposite is true -- there is no material benefit to any amount of viral infections. The immune system stays stronger the less it is activated, because it is ultimately a finite resource
With SARS-CoV-2 in particular, there is evidence that it sticks around and causes chronic T cell activation. There are only so many naive/undifferentiated T cells the thymus can supply before it shrinks (it normally shrinks with age)