The Covid-19 vaccines and boosters clearly do not prevent infection or transmission of the newer Omicron strains, B.4 and B.5. Now, with the possibility of vaccination causing more severe symptoms with the new strains, is it time to retire the vaccines?

This will ultimately be a medical and public health decision, and will likely be colored by politics and the problem of inertia ever-present within bureaucracies, not to mention the overlay of manipulation by the interlopers in confounding the handling of any crisis they generate. Because these viruses were created by extraterrestrials as a bioweapon intended to kill, they needed to be taken seriously as a health menace. But given that the newer strains are escaping the coverage by the vaccines, we would argue that it is not inappropriate to rethink their use and consider new approaches to keep abreast of the changes in the pathogens themselves. We have agreed all along with reservations about widespread vaccination of all age levels when it is largely older people, and those with some preexisting health conditions, who are most vulnerable to infection and serious consequences. That remains the case and with growing problems from the vaccines, in terms of side effects and lessening efficacy, these do represent two good reasons to be cautious about indiscriminately vaccinating everyone from infants up, throughout the population, but focusing on those at greatest risk, and studying the consequences carefully to get feedback along the way about the trade-offs, with respect to the high-risk subpopulations, in terms of the downside of the vaccines themselves, in the context of infection by the newer strains.