by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext
What the mainstream media is hiding
The rampant fear of a coronavirus epidemic offers Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn another opportunity to live up to his reputation as a pharmaceutical lobbyist.
While experts unanimously agree that a suitable vaccine will not be developed until the second half of the year at the earliest, at least the trained banker has known how we can protect ourselves since mid-February: Beyond “washing your hands and disinfecting,” “I can only encourage everyone to get the flu vaccination “The nation’s chief immunologist announced in all seriousness. (1) There is currently no scientific evidence that Sars-Cov-2 can be affected in the slightest by a commercially available influenza vaccine.
At least a flu vaccination is of indirect benefit, says tropical medicine expert Emil Reisinger, dean of Rostock University Medicine, from the “Editorial Network Germany”: The symptoms of flu and coronavirus disease are very similar. Anyone who has “adequate flu protection” can, therefore, exclude themselves, doctors, and authorities from becoming a suspected case of flu and thus save everyone involved work and worry. “The similar symptoms of both infectious diseases could lead to a patient infected with influenza viruses being mistakenly admitted to an isolation ward,” said Reisinger. This type of necessary precaution is expensive. The costs could be saved by getting a flu vaccination. (2)
Reisinger’s recommendation was shared by Jeremy Farrar, head of the British Wellcome Trust, the world’s wealthiest foundation for promoting medical research, with 27 billion British pounds (3). At the end of January 2020, when the Corona hype had just started, he quickly tweeted: “One thing that would help is to get vaccinated against the flu.” (4)
Heisser tip vom chef-immunologen der nation
Was tun gegen das coronavirus? Ich kann alle nur ermutern die grippeimpfung zu machen. Bundesgesundheitsminister Jens Spahn
“Flu vaccination protects”: government fake news.
But even with regular seasonal flu waves, the benefit of influenza vaccines is actually extremely questionable. In 1997, only 7 approved flu vaccines were on the market; By 2004, the number had doubled to 14. During the winter of 1992/1993, 2.5 million doses were vaccinated; in the winter of 2003/2004, there were 14.9 million doses, almost six times as many. Have influenza illnesses and deaths decreased over the same period? The Federal Statistical Office only provides the numbers for laboratory-confirmed influenza deaths from 1998 onwards. In that year, there were 11, then 34 (1999), 22 (2000), 9 (2001), and in 2002 there were 10 recorded cases. Reports of influenza illnesses have been available since 2001 after the Infection Protection Act (IfSG) came into force. 2001, there were 2,487; 2,574 cases were reported in 2002, and 8,473 were reported in 2003. Manufacturer-independent statistics do not indicate that the growing number of vaccines and inoculated doses is reducing annual influenza epidemics. (5)
Of all people, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany’s highest health authority for combating infectious diseases, had to meekly admit at the end of 2004 after a viral flu broke out in a senior citizens’ home: “Residents who had received a flu vaccination on time had the same probability of becoming ill as those who had not been vaccinated Residents.” (6) In September 2003, the renowned medical journal JAMA published a study on the question of whether the flu vaccination in children provides additional protection against otitis media. The result not only provided evidence that this is not the case but also that the vaccinated children were sick more often and for longer periods of time than the unvaccinated control group. (7) On September 20, 2004, the WDR program “All Around Healthy” quoted the result of another study that examined the health status of flu-vaccinated employees and employees vaccinated with placebo alone of the Ford factories with each other: “It was shown that the part of the workforce that was actually vaccinated against flu went to the doctor significantly more often in the following winter, suffered from cold symptoms for more days and had to call in sick more often than the part of the workforce that was only vaccinated with a placebo Workforce.” (8)
Cochrane, a global network of scientists and doctors, also has to disappoint vaccination advocates: In several meta-analyses that systematically included hundreds of vaccination studies, it found no evidence that flu vaccinations reduce deaths and hospitalizations. (9)
The questionable “benefit” is offset by vaccination complications with an unknown number of unreported cases. Corresponding concerns seem widespread, especially among medical and nursing staff: Why is the flu vaccination rate particularly low at an estimated 10 to 15 percent in these professional groups? (10)
The problem begins with the approval studies. The responsible licensing authority, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), does not measure whether vaccines are useful based on their actual ability to prevent the outbreak of a disease, but rather by whether they increase the amount of specific antibodies in the blood. A systematic follow-up inspection after approval that records the actual effectiveness is considered unnecessary, which also causes many doctors to shake their heads. (11) Therefore, we do not know with absolute certainty whether the increased antibody titer detected during approval actually makes one immune to a specific disease. As the RKI itself admits, the titer level is merely a substitute measurement; It is not she alone who decides the level of immunity. (12) In fact, even according to official estimates, the efficiency varies between 30 and 90 percent. (13)
Questionable experts
The quoted Emil Reisinger regularly assures in publications that he has “no conflicts of interest.” However, with a bit of research, the “Editorial Network Germany” could have discovered that a number of pharmaceutical giants co-finance several chairs at Rostock University Medicine, which Reisinger heads; “Endowed professorships” there are thanks to Pascoe, Shire, Bayer, CSL Behring, Roche and Octapharma – as well as two of the world’s top-selling vaccine manufacturers: GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis. (14)
And what should we make of the Wellcome Trust’s vaccination recommendations? Born in 1936 from the estate of the pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome, Glaxo Wellcome emerged in 1995 which five years later merged with SmithKlineBeecham to form the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world: GlaxoSmithKline. (15) According to the Financial Times (16), this foundation is Britain’s largest non-governmental funder of scientific research. What kind of “science” would seem worthy of support to such a sponsor?
Why all the Corona panic, which is reminiscent of the most shrill peak of the unspeakable bird and swine flu hysteria? “What we are currently experiencing with the coronavirus is what we experience every year with the flu,” Würzburg tropical medicine specialist Professor August Stich reassures the Evangelical Press Service (EPD). According to current facts, the flu virus is much more dangerous. (17) And from Heinsberg in the Rhineland, of all places, where the first German corona-infected person was noticed, a pharmacist speaks out who classifies Spahn’s PR-effective epidemic warnings as “irresponsible” scaremongering: The patient in question was pre-existing with a lung disease. “In such a state of health, any infection is dangerous, regardless of whether it is coronavirus or not.” However, if you don’t suffer from a weakened immune system, you don’t have to worry too much, says pharmacist Lutz Steinfurth. (18)
Several comparisons with the “real” flu show that the apocalypse will probably not happen this time, either. According to WHO estimates, influenza viruses cause up to 650,000 deaths yearly – where is the panic? Why doesn’t the Republic become a high-security wing monitored by health authorities for a few months every autumn? According to the Robert Koch Institute, 2 to 14 million Germans become infected with influenza every year. In contrast, there are currently fewer than 100,000 people infected with corona, the majority of whom have already recovered. The death rate for those under 40 is well below 1 percent, far lower in countries with good medical care than in China or North Korea.
But such hints are barely getting through at the moment, and prudence is hardly required. Who wants to let calm calmers spoil their horrifying, beautiful desire for fear? Who wants to hear that the coronavirus, like all so-called pathogens, can only become dangerous if other factors are present, such as an immune deficiency, previous illnesses, or stress? Why is it that with every infectious disease, without exception, there are people who go through it completely without any symptoms, for example, in the case of measles as a “silent survivor”? With polio, 90 percent of infections are asymptomatic; with HPV, 99 percent; even with Ebola, up to 20 percent. Symptomless long-term survivors also occur among HIV-infected people. It is always an interaction of several unfavorable factors that ultimately lead to illness – there is hardly ever a single, clearly definable cause. A holistic approach is needed instead of just trying to fight the virus; A wise civil protection system would prioritize him.
Fear more contagious than the virus –
Who benefits from scaremongering?
Who, if not public health, benefit from such drastic measures as entry bans, police checks on trains, at airports and border crossings, restricted zones, quarantine camps, forced internment, isolation stations, crisis teams, contact blocks, house arrests, sealed off hotels, closed schools and businesses, bans on major events, everywhere Respirators masked? “Up to 70 percent of the German population could become infected” (19), predicts a virologist from the Berlin Charité, who NDR assures us that he has “researched SARS-CoV-2 better than almost anyone else, the whole world is now asking his advice.” (20) Seventy! Percent! White! The! Expert! Such a development offers the mass media something to eat because it provides the fabulously telegenic dramaturgy of a catastrophe that is gradually escalating – finally, hair-raising material for special programs on all channels, for news blogs updated every minute and live tickers with the latest horror reports, for alarmist palaver Talk rounds. In addition, the horror promotes the further career plans of a health minister who is brimming with ambition and who can once again distinguish himself as an energetic, hands-on caretaker. And it increases the willingness of the unsettled population to vaccinate: the worse the horror, the weaker the resistance.
Such a scenario follows a marketing strategy with which vaccine producers have always known how to exploit gold mines. In 2018, the vaccine business brought them global sales of $49 billion; By 2024, it is expected to rise to 60 billion. If the vaccination recommendations of the notoriously industry-oriented STIKO were applied to all inhabitants of this planet, this product division alone would bring in over a trillion dollars – almost as much as the industry now generates as a whole. Only then would the market be truly “saturated”; before then, Big Pharma is unlikely to calm down. And only then would it no longer be possible to find out whether unvaccinated people might be healthier – this annoying control group would have been successfully sprayed away.
(Harald Wiesendanger)
Remarks
2 RND: „Ärzte raten wegen Coronavirus zu Grippeschutzimpfung“, https://www.rnd.de/gesundheit/arzte-raten-wegen-coronavirus-zu-grippeschutzimpfung-6YRHUB73YFAATATC72GVU3HOEE.html
3 https://wellcome.ac.uk/about-us; https://wellcome.ac.uk/about-us/history-wellcome
4 www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-01/impfungen-grippe-coronavirus-gesundheit-praevention-infektion
5 https://www.impfkritik.de/grippe/index.html
6 Robert-Koch-Institut: Epidemiologisches Bulletin Bull Nr. 12/2005
7 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 290 (12) 2003
8 https://www.impfkritik.de/grippe/index.html
9 Joseph Mercola: „Cochrane Founder Warns Flu Vaccine Research Is Corrupted“, 25.2.2020, mercola.com. (now deleted .)
10 RKI/PEI-Presseerklärung vom 22. September 2003
11 “impf-report” Newsletter Nr. 14/2005
12 Email der RKI-Pressestelle vom 2.2.2005 an Tolzin
13 Focus 47/2004, S. 12
14 https://fragdenstaat.de/files/foi/122058/Anfrage34841_geschwaerzt.pdf?download
15 https://wellcome.ac.uk/about-us/history-wellcome
16 “Wellcome Trust extends Seeding Drug Discovery initiative”, AngelNews, 14.5.2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20150114231852/http://www.angelnews.co.uk/article.jsf?articleId=9796#
17 Frankfurter Rundschau: „Grippe ist ‚nach derzeitiger Faktenlage‘ gefährlicher als Coronavirus – Tropenmediziner warnt vor Panik“, 5.2.2020, www.fr.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/grippewelle-grippe-grippeimpfung-krankheit-impfen-impfung-influenza-krank-13053034.html
20 www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html
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