Big pharma vaccines fraud

Just in case anyone doesn't understand why yous tin can, or should, be skeptical near the severity of the alleged threat from the corona virus.

Every bit it played out between early 2009 and late 2010, the 'swine influenza' pandemic is estimated to have infected up to ane.4 billion people effectually the earth and killed anywhere between 150,000 and 575,000 ('the flu' is well-nigh never recorded as the crusade of decease on certificates). While many governments did, at the time, talk up the threat from that virus, there was nothing like the level of hysteria that nosotros are seeing today in relation to 'corona virus'. Today, many political leaders are talking in overwrought, impassioned terms most the corona virus that are completely disconnected from the bodily infection rates and fatalities information technology has caused.

Consider United kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson'southward statement today that this is "the worst public health crisis for a generation" and that "this disease is more than dangerous and it's going to spread further ... more families are going to lose loved ones before their time."

Johnson'southward statement is apparently false. The corona virus is Not, as of now, "the worst public health crisis for a generation". There take been a full of ii, yes, Two, deaths from the virus in the Uk (with 116 people infected). By July 2009 (after which routine testing was discontinued) there were more than 24,000 laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu in England and Scotland and 392 deaths. Just a few months previously, the British government claimed that 65,000 people could dice.

Yes, it is likely that more than British people (the elderly and those with underlying health issues) will succumb to the corona virus, only many more will dice every bit an indirect consequence of the seasonal flu. Why is the seasonal flu non existence characterized as the "worst health crunch in a generation"? Is it simply because it happens every year? Or is it because at that place is already a well-oiled system providing large-pharma produced flu shots that are given to i.5 million Britons every year? While Johnson's comments could be construed as 'responsible leadership', they are in fact highly irresponsible, and most likely the product of pessimism and opportunism.

Virus Hysteria Means Large Pharma Banks Your Cash

In January 2010, Wolfgang Wodarg, a High german deputy who trained every bit a physician and now chairs the health committee at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms had organised a "campaign of panic" around swine flu to put pressure on the World Health Arrangement (WHO) to declare a "simulated pandemic" to sell vaccines. Wodarg said the WHO'due south "false pandemic" influenza campaign is "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century". He said that the "false pandemic" campaign began in May 2009 in Mexico Metropolis, when a hundred or then "normal" reported flu cases were declared to be the beginning of a threatening new pandemic, although he said at that place was fiddling scientific evidence for this. Nevertheless, he argued that the WHO, "in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists, re-defined pandemics", removing the statement that "an enormous corporeality of people have contracted the illness or died" from its existing definition and replacing information technology by stating just that there has to be a virus, spreading beyond borders and to which people have no immunity.

In March 2010, the Council of Europe launched an enquiry into "the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu entrada", the findings of which made interesting reading.

"The tentacles of drug visitor influence are in all levels in the controlling procedure," said Paul Flynn, then a UK Labour MP who sat on the Council's health committee. "It must be right that the WHO is transparent because there has been distortion of priorities of public wellness services all over Europe, waste product of huge sums of public money and provocation of unjustified fearfulness."

Although the experts consulted made no secret of industry ties in other settings, declaring them in research papers and at universities, the WHO itself did not publicly disclose any of these in its seminal 2004 guidance. In its note, the WHO brash: "Countries that are considering the utilise of antivirals as part of their pandemic response will demand to stockpile in advance."

A 2010 investigation past the British Medical Journal and the Agency of Investigative Journalism showed that WHO guidance issued in 2004 was authored past 3 scientists who had previously received payment for other piece of work from Roche, which makes Tamiflu, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the manufacturer of Relenza (another anti-influenza drug). Pharmaceutical companies are estimated to take banked more than $7bn as governments stockpiled drugs to gainsay swine flu.

On 12 April 2010, Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's peak influenza expert, stated that the organisation leading to the declaration of a swine flu pandemic led to confusion almost the virus circulating effectually the world, and he expressed concern that there was a failure to communicate in regard to uncertainties virtually the new virus, which turned out to exist not every bit mortiferous every bit feared.

In June 2010, Fiona Godlee, editor-in-primary of the BMJ, published an editorial which criticized the WHO, saying that an investigation had disclosed that some of the experts advising WHO on the pandemic had financial ties with drug companies which were producing antivirals and vaccines. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO, replied stating, "Without question, the BMJ feature and editorial will leave many readers with the impression that WHO'due south decision to declare a pandemic was at least partially influenced by a want to heave the profits of the pharmaceutical industry."

Because at that place were already drugs bachelor to treat swine flu, there was piddling demand to prolong the hysteria about that particular virus beyond the initial propaganda, and governments effectually the world spent $billions stockpiling what big pharma had to offer. Coronavirus is different in that there is, equally yet, no 'cure' for the illness (simply wait a while). As a result, the hysteria must be artificially prolonged until the likes of Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer can cobble something together. Until then, many countries are taking ridiculously extreme measures like banning all public events, closing schools for months, and insisting that entire populations stay indoors (or 'shelter in place' if you adopt) until further notice.

You may have noticed the Trump administration's recent annunciation of a ban on all travel from the European union, except for the UK and Ireland. This was likely a calculated political ploy in an attempt to courtroom the local governments and peoples and enhance the perception of a 'special relationship' between the 2 (or three) countries, specifically as it relates to health care. It is no cloak-and-dagger that the British government is in the process of negotiating an 'awesome' trade bargain with the US in the aftermath of 'Brexit'. Information technology is also no surreptitious that part of that trade deal will include United states of america big pharma access to the Great britain's National Health Service and, most likely, a many-fold increase in the toll of United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland prescription drugs to match their exorbitant toll in the The states.

In the interest of bringing some perspective back to the electric current alarmism over corona virus, cheque out this graphic of the illnesses that are the major causes of deaths, per day, around the world and, if you lot must, prioritize protecting yourself from yellow fever before taking action on corona virus.

diseases deaths per day

To conclude, I'll leave you lot with a slice of satire from The Onion that, sadly, isn't really satire at all.

In response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, height U.S. health experts warned the nation Th to agree onto their fucking seats, because this bitch hasn't even thought virtually starting yet. "Nosotros've been getting a lot of questions surrounding Covid-19, and, well, y'all all better buckle the fuck upwards, because this shit is about to kick into high gear," said Stanford professor of health research and policy Richard Mason, throwing all his papers in the air and warning the nation that they ameliorate strap in tight, because this motherfucker will knock you on your goddamn ass. "If you lot call back information technology's bad now, just fucking wait, considering this son of a bowwow is gonna go into full-fledged annihilation mode. Seriously, wash your hands, cut off your hands — it doesn't fucking thing. Y'all poor bastards are going to get absolutely fucking destroyed." At press fourth dimension, Mason knocked over his podium, curled up in a ball on the flooring, and started screaming, "Steel yourselves!"