It’s not a conspiracy theory, the article acknowledges that it’s true. It’s debatable whether absolute is a more significant metric. In this context — for a disease with such an incredibly high survival rate, it is obvious that it is the more relevant metric. On the other hand, if COVID killed or seriously harmed half the people that got it, relative would seem the more important metric.
I’m still curious though whether it’s even statistically significant, given so few people actually caught the disease in either the control or vaccinated groups. As I recall it was something like 120 people out of 20k that had caught in the control group and 15 in the vaccinated group. It has been revealed that regular standards for testing (Among other things) did not apply.