The simplest way to understand the insanity of boosting for Omicron

If the first-generation monoclonal antibodies are now so useless that they’re being retired, why would the first-generation vaccines be any better?

We call them vaccines. But it is clear after a year of use that the mRNA shots do not produce a robust long-term B- or T-cell immune response.

What they do is drive up antibodies to the spike protein (to unnaturally high levels, levels that all by themselves may cause problems, but put that aside). And those antibodies are extremely narrowly focused, not…