Coronavirus Pandemic Unpopular Facts
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Time for another update on the coronavirus pandemic!
I have part II to post on Near-death experiences but I felt it was very important to first contribute this article on the world state of affairs with this pandemic and the vaccine controversies. A lot of water has already gone under the bridge since the pandemic started two years ago, and in the nation of America, there has been a great divide of the people politically and morally, with few being able to stay in the middle. I have spent months reading the liberal's so-called "right" action and the conservative's so-called conspiracy theories to find the truth and condense the facts here. It is actually quite alarming what has been suppressed. And the reasons for the suppression can only be conjectured for the most part, even with facts and numbers.
In Part I of this article I will cover:
- Media, Google, Facebook and others censorship of information about vaccines
- When Science is to be believed unequivocally
- Health agencies and their flaws
- Big Pharma (the global pharmaceutical industry)
- Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
- Emergency use vaccines safety and adverse effects
Part II
- January 2022, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's panel discussion with a group of world renowned doctors
- Medical records of COVID Hospital and Death reporting skewed
- Early At Home Treatment
- Is the Vaccine Effective?
- Vaccine adverse reactions
I will focus mostly on America because I live here and know more about what is going on, as well as because this nation has had a history of being a leader in many areas of economics, foreign policies, and technology. Sadly, today American politics has allegedly become connected with large corporate interests vs. the people's needs through the influx of large sums of donations, kickbacks, and lobbying and we are not presenting good leadership for the rest of the world.
Some points to notice about this pandemic and vaccine rollout. For the first time in vaccine history:
- Acquired Immunity is no longer considered good enough even though many previous studies say it is far better than the shot.
- We have a vaccine that did not take many years to develop.
- We have a Government entity that profits off of the Vaccine. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has joint ownership of the Moderna vaccine patent because of its fundamental role in research and development, starting from the inception of that work and continuing to the present. The U.S. government also owns a patent1 covering key spike-protein technology used in several coronavirus vaccines, including Moderna's and Pfizer-BioNTech's. Moderna reported2 $3.3 billion in third-quarter 2021 profits from its coronavirus vaccine.
- We have governments forcing people to be vaccinated.
- We have a vaccine that required the government to change their definition of "vaccine" so it could be called a vaccine.
- We are fighting a virus that is possibly linked to gain-of-function research which was partially funded by the U.S. government.
- We are being led by a lead government employee in health that may have circumvented the rules to fund gain of function research but who has denied any gain of function involvement by him or any government agency yet earlier is recorded saying that the knowledge learned from gain of function was worth it even if there was a pandemic.
Media, Google, Facebook and others censorship of information about vaccines
If you go to the New York Times and Washington Post (owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos) and read the reader's comments following any subject on republicans, Trump, and conspiracy exposes, there will be approximately 95% comments coming from the liberal "right" with hateful, mocking diatribe against anyone who speaks out with their thoughts or data that doesn't conform to the liberal political and scientific studies for the efficacy and safety of the COVID vaccines, masks, democratic leadership, and science. These two newspapers appear to be among the top liberal newspapers in America.
Likewise, if you use Google search you will find hundreds of articles that "debunk" every conservative theory or study if it comes from a republican, scientist, or doctor on how to safely treat COVID illness, opposition to forced vaccinations, etc. and virtually no links to the articles by those who expose lies and misrepresented facts or hidden knowledge that contradict government agencies and the handling of this pandemic. You have to go to a different search engine to find any links to those articles. In the footnotes I have links to many of these articles, trials, hearings, videos, and conversations with both sides.
Google controls online search and has been censoring all articles that speak out against vaccines and even peer-reviewed articles by scientists presenting a different viewpoint. Likewise, Google-owned YouTube is censoring so-called misinformation and conspiracy theorists, but also videos from respectable scientists and doctors who are challenging government responses to Covid-19.
May 24, 2021, Project Veritas released a video interview with two Facebook insider whistleblowers — a data center technician and a data center facility engineer — who have come forward with internal documents showing how the social media platform is suppressing science and medical facts in the name of combating “vaccine hesitancy.”
Facebook recently rolled out a beta test designed to censor negative vaccine information — regardless of its veracity and truthfulness — with the aim of eventually rolling this censorship program in all nations, in as many languages as possible.
The documents prove Facebook is working on behalf of Big Pharma and in coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization to protect and promulgate the false narrative that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective for everyone. The platform is even hiding posts in which people who dutifully got the shots talk about their adverse effects.
They are also testing...shadow banning, where a user has been secretly banned — which means none of their followers can actually see their posts — yet they continue posting because they’re unaware that the content is not being disseminated...(this) strategy is currently reducing “vaccine hesitant” comments by 42.5% within the test group.3
Is science to be believed unequivocally
Something unique is happening with the COVID-19 pandemic and science. A large portion of people believes that we must trust science, their studies, and conclusions and that doubting any part of their scientific presentations, and the agencies that base their decisions on science makes those people renegades and a detriment to societies to the overcoming of the pandemic.
Daniel Nuccio, biology doctoral student at Northern Illinois University also holding a master's degree in psychology describes what happened to the biologists at the Nothern Illinois University when COVID restrictions came. It is well worth reading his article. He said:
Surely some of these people (biologists) had bothered to make the effort to confirm that our government and university had made sensible decisions on policies that now impacted every aspect of our lives.I found among these biologists and biologists in training was quite the opposite. Instead, I discovered a profound lack of curiosity regarding the science behind the rules that now governed us. Conversations about infection fatality rates, masks, and models at best had the air of a Solomon Asch experiment. At worst, such conversations were met with a certain hostility, or at least condescension toward the idea that one might want evidence for that which had been proclaimed by Pope Fauci, the Church of the CDC, or “The Science.”
...Democrats in the United States long regarded themselves as the champions of science, and this may have seemed reasonable throughout the second Bush administration when Democrats were the ones who usually defended evolutionary biology against creationism...Henceforth, if being a Democrat, an anti-Trumper, or someone who believed in science was part of your core identity, you now found yourself in a position where you would defend “The Science” and all its related leaders, beliefs, and policies and do so on a very core level. It didn’t matter if you had followed “The Science” to a psychological Twilight Zone where a commitment to science was characterized not by critical thought and a careful assessment of data and evidence, but obedience to authority and a defense of symbolic representations of an institution.
Hence, many once seemingly reasonable biologists and biologists in training I knew in the Before Times came to exhibit a profound lack of curiosity, or express hostility and condescension toward the suggestion that one might want evidence for that which had been proclaimed...4
One example is an agreement described in this article5 between Gilead Sciences, the European Union (EU), and the FDA to supply remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19. This was after one study found remdesivir modestly reduced the time to recover from COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with severe illness and a few other smaller studies that found no impact of treatment on the disease whatsoever. Then, on the 15 October 2020, before the FDA signed their contract with GIlead, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Solidarity trial showed that remdesivir does not reduce mortality or the time COVID-19 patients take to recover.
FDA never consulted a group of outside experts (ADAC) that it has in the past to weigh in on complicated antiviral drug issues. One scientist stated, "When it comes to the point of giving pharmaceutical companies exclusive marketing rights in this area, that really is something that's very, very important." These experts should have been part of the discussion.
A second, smaller placebo-controlled study of remdesivir on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China, published online by The Lancet also on 29 April,6 found no statistically significant benefit from the treatment—and the antiviral surprisingly had no impact on levels of the coronavirus. Not only does remdesivir not help severe COVID patients, but WHO found in August 2020 that a disproportionately high number7 of reports of liver and kidney problems in patients receiving remdesivir compared with patients receiving other drugs.
The history of science is littered with well-accepted “facts” and theories that were later revealed to be dogmatic falsehoods. The following are some examples of scientific theories that were later proven wrong:
- In the early 1990s, a researcher at the University of Rochester concluded that a combination of two nonaddictive drugs could be used for the long-term control of obesity. The fen-phen diet craze was born. By 1996, after years of physician recommendations of its use for losing weight the New England Journal of Medicine linked the extended use of fen-phen to a 23-fold increased risk of developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a fatal lung disorder. A later discovery revealed it also caused heart-valve defects. By 1997 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered fen-phen off the market. It is estimated that between 1.2 million and 4.7 million Americans were exposed to the drug combination.
- Back in antiquity, the geocentric model reigned that put the Earth at the center of the solar system.
- Miasma theory held that soil polluted with waste products and decomposing material of any kind gave off a 'miasma' into the air, a poisonous vapor, which caused many major infectious diseases of the day. The miasma theory of disease originated in the Middle Ages and persisted for centuries. Although proven wrong, the theory helped in the understanding of the connection of dirtiness and disease as well as leading scientists to identify microbes as agents of infectious disease.
- Almost all of us at school were taught that atoms were mostly empty, with a dense core and that tiny electrons orbited that core. Our understanding of atoms has changed dramatically over the last century with the discovery of quantum physics aka quantum theory. Quantum physics discovery is that an electron is both a wave and a particle at the same time. You cannot pinpoint exactly where it is at any one time. An electron in its orbital state acts much like a plucked guitar string. It is spread out in a three-dimensional cloud-like wave function that vibrates. The subatomic world of quantum mechanics defies all logic of our macroscopic world with particles that can actually tunnel through walls, appear out of thin air and disappear, stay entangled and choose to behave like waves.
- Hundreds of years ago doctors didn’t blame plaque or bad hygiene for causing tooth decay or rot. Instead, they believed tiny microscopic worms were eating away at the teeth and sweet fruit was the cure to kill the worms.8
Health agencies and their flaws
In the case of government agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. a medical research agency, the FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) they have not served the public and safety of people but many are beginning to see that rather they have followed the money. Anyone who dares speak of what they–and other government officials have done–are ridiculed and demonized. Rather, the voices attempting to expose the truth are blamed for the COVID deaths for spreading fraudulent information and feeding the right-wing people (in this case American republicans and anyone who had supported President Trump) from being vaccinated.
One other organization that is supposedly dedicated to the health of the world's citizens is the World Health Organization (WHO) founded in 1948. Unfortunately, like the U.S. organizations listed above the WHO was quickly infiltrated by Big Tobacco, also to the nuclear and pharmaceuticals industry where they continue today to dictate WHO’s global agenda, which has led WHO to put profits and power ahead of public health. Bill Gates today is also the highest donor to WHO while the U.S. historically has been the largest direct donor. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new book, “Vax-Unvax,” states “Gates has used his money strategically to infect the international aid agencies with his distorted self-serving priorities." Gates has given over $1 billion, Kennedy wrote, and that these are tax-deductible donations which give Gates both leverage and control over international health policy, “which he largely directs to serve the profit interest of his pharma partners.”9
In July 2021 the Christian News site, "The Daily Telegram" posted an article titled Seven Reasons the World Health Organization Cannot Be Trusted.10 While all the points are noteworthy, number 4 is about the WHO Director-General, Marxist Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who before his election - and still has - a cozy relationship with China. Point 7 exposes what happened with China's response to the spread of COVID and Tedros' cooperation with China to keep it hidden.
Lilian Franck, a German film director and producer, created a documentary film "TrustWHO”11 in 2018 revealing the clandestine influences that are controlling the WHO.
Franck covered the 2009 swine flu epidemic and the accusations that followed for creating a fake pandemic. What exactly is a pandemic? WHO’s original definition of a pandemic up until 2009 was:
“An influenza pandemic is a worldwide epidemic caused by a new strain of virus which leads to infection rates and mortality rates which exceed seasonal but similarly heavy waves of influenza by several orders of magnitude. A precondition for an influenza pandemic is the appearance of a viral subtype which had not yet circulated amongst the human population or which had occurred so long ago that no residual immunity remains amongst the population, and which is capable of provoking severe illness and of disseminating effectively from one human to another.”
This definition was changed in the month leading up to the 2009 swine flu pandemic removing "severity of illness" leaving only the definition of a pandemic as “a worldwide epidemic of a disease to which people had no immunity.” Without the association of "enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses" the WHO was able to declare a pandemic in 2009 with only 144 deaths worldwide. This declaration was only made possible by "changing the definition" and by "lowering the threshold for its declaration." The beneficiaries of this declaration were the pharmaceutical companies.
In 2010, the EU investigated the WHO for creating a fake pandemic in order to create a lucrative international vaccine market for Big Pharma. After the pandemic officially ended in August 2010, the WHO declared there were only 18,449 global deaths. In contrast, there are 250,000 to a half a million deaths globally from the annual seasonal flu according to the WHO. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) also launched an investigation into the undue influence of Big Pharma and WHO for falsifying a pandemic in order to create a global vaccine market.
Britain alone had more than 20 million surplus vaccination doses. Plus, the vaccines were not fully tested for safety before they hit the market and many individuals suffered brain damage as well as the vaccine caused thousands to have Guillian-Barre syndrome, a neurological disorder wherein a body’s immune system attack the nerves. It leads to weakness and tingling in the extremities, and in some cases can be severe, leading to other complications and paralysis. Finland began reporting an increased occurrence of narcolepsy in children and youngsters vaccinated. In Sweden, at least 150 children were suffering from narcolepsy caused by the vaccine. Narcolepsy is a lifelong severe chronic neurologic disease that not only results in a disabling fatigue, which typically results in the patient falling asleep anywhere and at any time. It might also lead to panic attacks and a state of exhaustion and when expressing strong feelings such as laughter or crying, to suddenly lose muscular control.
Yet this was not the only vaccination and swine flu fiasco. In 1976 a strain of the swine flu was discovered and the CDC stepped in declaring an upcoming pandemic. Believing an epidemic would possibly kill a million Americans they recommended at least 80 percent of the United States population would need to be vaccinated in order to avoid the pandemic. The WHO did not jump in that time, but had a "wait-and-see" attitude yet the U.S. politicians jumped right on the bandwagon for various political reasons.
Hundreds were adversely affected with Guillian-Barre syndrome. By the fall newspapers had begun reporting other troubling news from vaccine clinics in Pittsburgh: three apparently unexplained deaths due to heart attacks. The CDC notes stated that people who got the vaccination did have an increased risk of “approximately one additional case of GBS for every 100,000 people who got the swine flu vaccine.” They stated there are several theories why “but the exact reason for this link remains unknown". Their website today states, "On very rare occasions, they may develop GBS in the days or weeks after getting a vaccination."
We are told today to trust science, the FDA, the CDC, and the government over our common sense. Yet, science and the government and the CDC got it all wrong in 1976. First, the swine flu strain that was first spotted was not dangerous, and there would be no pandemic. Second, researchers discovered that benign swine flu strains had been circulating in the US population long before this one was identified! Third, scientists who feared another Spanish flu did not know that the 1918 influenza was avian, not swine. And lastly, researchers at the time also suffered from the universal psychological tendency to assume that future events will closely resemble recent experience. Yet data cannot predict the future, although stock market brokers try to tell us otherwise! The researchers based their claims on experience from the 1950s and 60s, believing that major influenza pandemics happened on an 11-year cycle, when they are actually more irregular.
Big Pharma
In an editorial published by a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, The BMJ (formerly The British Medical Journal)—one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world—revealed how much corruption was happening in the UK connected with the pharmaceutical industry. You can read the article here. link A summary of this editorial published April 2005 titled The influence of Big Pharma” states:
The report describes a strong United Kingdom pharmaceutical industry, whose net exports are worth over £3bn ($5.6bn; €4.3bn) annually. The industry's declared goal is “to bring patients life-enhancing medicines,” a goal “not only necessary but noble.” The House of Commons health committee examined the means used to achieve this noble end. They found an industry that buys influence over doctors, charities, patient groups, journalists, and politicians, and whose regulation is sometimes weak or ambiguous. For example, the Department of Health, responsible for a national health service that spends £7.5bn on drugs annually, is also responsible for representing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry.12
For example, the New England Journal of Medicine—among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal—published 73 studies of new drugs. Of those studies, a pharmaceutical company funded 60, 50 had drug-company employees among the authors and 37 lead researchers had accepted money from a drug company, according to a review conducted by the Washington Post.13
Big Pharma’s chokehold around the U.S. political system surpasses that of practically any other industry. In 2021, the pharmaceutical/health products industry has spent $171 million lobbying lawmakers.14 In 2020, the industry spent over $300 million on lobbying. This means drug companies greatly influence the majority of medical information provided to the public. For example, the FDA division that approves new opioid drugs receives 75% of its funding from the industry.
The other important branch of health care that is infiltrated by Big Pharma are physicians. It’s no secret that pharmaceutical companies spend plenty of money on doctors but also scientists—upwards of over a billion dollars15 annually in the U.S. Pharmaceutical and medical device companies gave $8.18 billion to doctors and teaching hospitals in the U.S. in 2016, an increase of $90M over the previous year, according to new numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.16 Doctors are recipients of large and small gifts from free pens and dinners to vacations and annual "consulting fees" as high as $200,000 and giving talks at sponsored conferences and events. There has been growing evidence that these payments do subtly influence how doctors behave, both with their patient interactions and in the research they carry out. In turn, any time a patient receives a free sample of a drug or cosmetic from a doctor, this handout comes from pharmaceutical companies.17
Source of Pandemic Outbreak - Lab leak or natural occurrence?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible and pathogenic coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 that has caused a pandemic of acute respiratory disease, named "coronavirus disease 2019" (COVID-19). The COVID-19 outbreak of respiratory illness was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei province, China beginning around December 2019. While SARS-CoV-2 is not as virulent as SARS-CoV-1 (2003), it is transmitted far more easily between people.
Two of the most prominent features of the SARS-CoV-2 spike are its receptor-binding domain (RBD), which binds very tightly to human ACE2, the protein that allows it to enter lung cells, and the so-called furin cleavage site (FCS). The spike proteins protrude from the surface of the virus. The viral variant that began this pandemic is dangerous because its spike proteins can latch onto cells in the lower respiratory tract — the lung and bronchial cells — as well as cells in the heart, kidney, liver, brain, gut lining, stomach or blood vessels. After the virus has entered a human cell, the viral protein NSP1 is produced as one of the first viral proteins. NSP1 inhibits the production of the cell's own proteins, Ribosomes are the cellular machines that produce proteins. They read the blueprint, the so-called messenger RNA, for a given protein and assemble the amino acids in the corresponding order. During reading, the messenger RNA passes through a channel on the ribosome. Researchers found that NSP1 binds to this channel and thus blocks the ribosome.
At some point, this (novel) coronavirus obtained a sequence in its spike protein that allows it to be cleaved in two by an enzyme found in its host (humans) called furin. Once inside the cell the furin cleaves the spike protein, exposing a new sequence that allows it to bind to another host cell protein and co-hijack its function, once its released from an infected cell, priming the virus to spread to new cells more efficiently. That protein Is called neuropilin 1 and it could be this that makes Sars-CoV–2 so highly infectious in many organs.
We have heard from the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020 that the virus most likely came from wild bats and may have started in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Anyone who did not go along with this claim, whether scientist, investigator or individuals who studied the virus and how it works, were ridiculed and condemned. Investigators tested more than 80,000 animals in China, including hundreds linked to the Wuhan seafood market associated with the early cases of COVID-19, but "no positive result was identified for SARS-CoV-2," the WHO study on the origins of COVID-19 says. Further, the inability to find the host species in nature is very telling. It took only four months to find the host for SARS, and nine months for MERS. Yet more than 15 months on, Beijing hasn’t identified the host species for this coronavirus — something for which they’ve surely searched high and low.
Richard Muller, emeritus professor of physics at the University of California Berkeley, and Dr. Steven Quay, a physician and founder of Atossa Therapeutics, said SARS-CoV-2's unique trigger of the FCS and a unique code in its genes for that site, called a CGG-CGG dimer combination has never been found naturally and therefore points to a lab-manipulated virus.
Specifically, he said, "the part of the virus that interacts with human cells was 99.5% optimized" compared to SARS1 and MERS where it took weeks to evolve through the population to reach its most contagious form. "Such early optimization is unprecedented, and it suggests a long period of adaptation that predated its public spread," Quay and Muller wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about their findings. "Science knows of only one way that could be achieved: simulated natural evolution, growing the virus on human cells until the optimum is achieved." This is called gain-of-function (GoF) research and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is one of a few worldwide that do GoF research.
Not surprisingly, two years later after much investigation into links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology—that is right next door (8 miles) to the Wuhan Wet Market—the possibilities of a lab leak are gaining ground. In the summer of 2021, an intelligence review ordered by President Joe Biden drew no definitive conclusions but left open the possibility that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
One of the most detailed and enlightening article on the possible link to the Wuhan lab is Nicholas Wade's article on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.18 The Bulletin was founded in Chicago in 1945 as a nonprofit by Manhattan Project scientists, is a preeminent publication that informs the public about threats to human survival resulting from accelerating technological advances that have negative consequences for humanity.
Gain of Function Research?
Dr Fauci, adviser to President Biden and director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—part of the NIH—and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and other health officials testified before the Senate on May 11, 2021. Then again, they testified before the Senate on July 20, 2021 to provide updates on the COVID-19 response and again in January 2022 on the latest confusing stance of the CDC. In the earlier hearings they answered questions on ongoing COVID-19 prevention measures and guidance.
In all three hearings, Senator Rand Paul questioned Dr. Fauci on various points such as if the NIH was financing gain-of-function research. In May 2021, Fauci denied that they had stating that the NIH "has not ever and does not now fund GoF research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology". Two weeks earlier the NIH revealed they had indirectly funded the Wuhan lab, and Dr. Fauci admitted that the money was funneled to the Chinese lab through the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance in 2014 to fund “a modest collaboration with very respectable Chinese scientists who were world experts on coronavirus.”
However, the Australian published an article that exposed Dr. Anthony Fauci in a 2012 paper, defending risky lab research at the risk of triggering a lab leak pandemic. Fauci wrote:
“Scientists working in this field might say—as indeed I have said—that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky. However, we must respect that there are genuine and legitimate concerns about this type of research, both domestically and globally. We cannot expect those who have these concerns to simply take us, the scientific community, at our word that the benefits of this work outweigh the risks, nor can we ignore their calls for greater transparency, their concerns about conflicts of interest, and their efforts to engage in a dialog about whether these experiments should have been performed in the first place. Those of us in the scientific community who believe in the merits of this work have the responsibility to address these concerns thoughtfully and respectfully.“ 19
Senator Paul, in one hearing, referred to two academic papers by the Chinese institute, one from 2015 (written together with the University of North Carolina), and another from 2017. From those papers it was revealed that "the authors genetically grafted spike proteins—the viral keys that grant access to mammalian cells—from eight different, naturally occurring coronaviruses onto another coronavirus from the wild, called WIV1. They found that these new creations, in lab dishes, could infect monkey kidney cells, as well as human cells, through the same gateway—the widely expressed ACE2 receptor—that is used by SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. And these experiments were done at a time when funding for some GOF science was barred.
A report that recently came to light states that EcoHealth Alliance approached The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in March 2018, seeking funding to conduct GoF research of bat-borne coronaviruses. The proposal, named Project Defuse, was rejected by DARPA over safety concerns and the notion that it violates the basis GoF research moratorium. Yet, according to the documents, NIAID , under the direction of Dr. Fauci, went ahead with the research in Wuhan, China and at several sites across the U.S. DARPA's report outlines why EcoHealth Alliance’s proposal was rejected as it classified the research as gain of function.
One prominent scientist supporting this view—and quoted by Senator Paul—is Prof Richard Ebright of Rutgers University. He told the BBC that the research in both papers showed that new viruses (that did not already exist naturally) were created, and these "risked creating new potential pathogens" that were more infectious. "The research in both papers was gain-of-function research", he said.
EcoHealth received $3.4m from the NIH, $600,000 of which was given to the WIV. The NIH cut off funding to EcoHealth Alliance in April of 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
Leaked emails revealed by Senator Paul from Dr. Fauci appears there may be manipulated information regarding a possible lab leak. Paul said,
They have looked to see if this came from animals naturally. This is what Dr. Fauci started saying early on...he realized on January 31 (2020), he gets very urgent messages from four scientists saying that it looks like this virus was manipulated in the lab. He also has a paper that he sends to his assistant that is a gain of function paper that NIH funded and their alarm that it didn’t go through any kind of process or screening that it was supposed to be going through this type of screening, they were alarmed that they would be associated with this,” said Paul. “They organized, including the guy that was funding the research lab, Peter de Zack, they organized a letter. And in the private emails are saying, hey, you don’t sign it, you don’t sign it, because we made—we want it to appear as if it’s an independent effort that we had nothing to do with organizing this.”
Early in the pandemic, multiple scientists urged NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH director, Francis Collins, to seriously consider the theory that Covid escaped from a Chinese laboratory, arguing that the lab-leak theory, which Fauci and Collins have downplayed since the pandemic began, was more plausible than the natural origin explanation.20
During a February 2020 conference call of experts, Mike Farzan, an immunology researcher and the discoverer of the SARS receptor, Bob Garry, a virology expert, and Dr. Andrew Rambaut, a British evolutionary biologist, all observed that a particular feature of the virus, the “furin cleavage site,” was peculiar and suggested gain-of-function engineering. Garry said about the furin cleavage site
(The furin cleavage site) would be unlikely to emerge in nature in a way that made the virus highly transmissible in humans... I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus or one very similar to it to nCoV where you insert exactly 4 amino acids 12 nucleotides that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain this function – that and you don’t change any other amino acid in S2? I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.
On January 11, 2022 Republican leaders on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees sent a letter21 to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, releasing excerpts of emails they say reveal NIAI Director Dr. Anthony Fauci knew that COVID-19 may have been intentionally modified and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The letter also pointed to a conference call that included Fauci and former NIH Director Francis Collins in which the virus's origins were discussed.
Their letter reveals a month after the February 2020 virus and immunology experts meeting where notes were sent to presented to Fauci and Collins and obtained by congressional Republicans, Collins publicly stated that the lab-leak hypothesis was “outrageous.” On May 4, 2020, Fauci similarly told National Geographic in an exclusive interview that Covid-19 “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.”22
July 4 2020: The Times of London reports that a virus 96 percent identical to the coronavirus that causes covid-19 was found in an abandoned copper mine in China in 2012. The bat-infested copper mine in southwestern China was home to a coronavirus that left six men sick with pneumonia, with three eventually dying, after they had been tasked with shoveling bat guano out of the mine. This virus was collected in 2013 and then stored and studied at WIV.
Jan. 15 2021: Days before Trump leaves office, the State Department issues a “fact sheet” on WIV that states: “The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both covid-19 and common seasonal illnesses. . . . The WIV has a published record of conducting ‘gain-of-function’ research to engineer chimeric viruses. But the WIV has not been transparent or consistent about its record of studying viruses most similar to the covid-19 virus, including ‘RaTG13,’ which it sampled from a cave in Yunnan Province in 2013 after several miners died of SARS-like illness.”
In May 2021 the Wall Street Journal reported about three researchers referenced above becoming ill in November of 2019 and that they sought hospital treatment. (note: No mention is made of the miners who died.) Though it is not clear whether the workers contracted coronavirus, their hospitalization coincides with the period when most experts believe the virus was spreading through the city of Wuhan.
This link will take you to The Wuhan Lab Leak Theory, a chronological history of comments and happenings in regards to natural origin vs. lab leak of the coronavirus. The information was compiled from the Ottawa SUN news but since the page is loaded with advertisements I have taken the history and compiled it onto a readable page without the ads.
Emergency use vaccines safety and approval
The FDA's supposed objective is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs before they make it into the hands of patients. Each drug must first go through a series of clinical trials. Data obtained from these trials are meant to be analyzed to determine the safety and effectiveness of the new drug before it makes it into the hands of patients via their doctors. Dr. Don Harte, a 40-year chiropractic veteran, states succinctly what is the problem today within the FDA, NIH, and CDC. He said:
“The FDA, the agency responsible for the safety of new and old vaccines and other drugs, only granted the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines approval under ‘emergency’ provisions, as these are officially classed as experimental.” He points out, “The real crime, the real gross irresponsibility, is that the FDA has not made clear to the public that these vaccines are (1) experimental, and (2), they are not, by definition, vaccines.” Dr. Harte clarifies: “These so-called vaccines are in Phase III, and are definitely experimental, as are the tests for Covid-19. A vaccine contains some of the pathogen, the disease-causing virus or bacteria, to stimulate artificial immunity. These ‘vaccines” have no pathogen. They are designed to hijack one’s genetic machinery, fooling the body’s cells into producing the spike protein of the virus.” Dr. Harte adds, “this is the modern genetic version of the fictional Dr. Frankenstein. The monster will surely ravage the village! But how, and when?” He concludes, “We have a disgraceful lie of omission, to fool the public, to sell the vaccines, to sell the loss of liberty and normal life. And let us keep in mind that these government agencies, the vaccine manufacturers, the doctors, have ZERO liability. Is this public knowledge?”
For many years, the NIH budget has been providing less and less money to fund clinical trials. Because of this, Big Pharma pays for and runs the majority of these trials. According to critics, this could allow drug companies to fake study results or hide dangerous side effects to get their drug approved or increase sales.23 As many are well aware, the NIH then provides the data to the FDA for drug approvals and safety reviews after the drug hits the market. This practice allows more drugs being approved to then reach patients sooner for new treatments but it also is believed to lead to unknown risks, as has come to light since the new emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines has shown. Yet how many lay citizens in each country who have mandatory requirements to receive these vaccines or are forced to by threats of loss of their jobs, air travel or intimidation are aware of the dangers and risk of negative reactions to these vaccines? There are several sides to this answer for which I will go into greater detail for each answer in Part II.
First article on the Heart of Pandemics here and part II "Heart of Pandemics Update here.
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1NIH Government patent.
2Moderna 2021 third quarter results.
3Facebook insiders reveal vaccine censorship.
4Daniel Nuccio, biology doctoral student at Northern Illinois University article on believing science without investigating facts.
5Gilead Sciences, the European Union (EU), and the FDA agreement to supply remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19.
6Study of remdesivir on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China, published by The Lancet.
7The WHO study reports of liver and kidney problems in patients receiving remdesivir.
8"More examples" of scientific studies later proven wrong.
9“Vax-Unvax” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released November 2021.
10The Daily Telegram article "WHO cannot be trusted."
11Documentary "Trust WHO".
12 Report published in the British Medical Journal, "The Influence of Big Pharma".
13Washington Post article on pharmaceutical companies lobbying and advertising funding studies and biased results.
14Big Pharma's lobbying and advertising campaign to kill a Democratic proposal to lower the cost of prescription drugs article by Washington Post. "Big Pharma continues to top lobbying spending" article by OpenSecrets.
15JAMA study on "Types and Distribution of Payments From Industry to Physicians in 2015".
16Article by Drugwatch, Big Pharma and Medical Device Manufacturers.
17Information and study by Drugwatch, "Drug and Device Companies Gave Billions to Doctors in 2016. Sources taken from data available through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Government data.
18Nicholas Wade's "The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?" article from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
19News Record article on 2012 paper in which Dr. Fauci argued that even if it caused a lab-leak global pandemic, the “gain-of-function” research should still have been done.
20National Review June 2021 article "Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated".
21House Oversight and Judiciary committees letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerramer.
22Dr. Fauci exclusive interview with National Geographic, May 4, 2020.
23Digital Journal article, "Most clinical trials today are funded by Big Pharma".
Coronavirus Pandemic Unpopular Facts
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Time for another update on the coronavirus pandemic!
I have part II to post on Near-death experiences but I felt it was very important to first contribute this article on the world state of affairs with this pandemic and the vaccine controversies. A lot of water has already gone under the bridge since the pandemic started two years ago, and in the nation of America, there has been a great divide of the people politically and morally, with few being able to stay in the middle. I have spent months reading the liberal's so-called "right" action and the conservative's so-called conspiracy theories to find the truth and condense the facts here. It is actually quite alarming what has been suppressed. And the reasons for the suppression can only be conjectured for the most part, even with facts and numbers.
In Part I of this article I will cover:
- Media, Google, Facebook and others censorship of information about vaccines
- When Science is to be believed unequivocally
- Health agencies and their flaws
- Big Pharma (the global pharmaceutical industry)
- Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
- Emergency use vaccines safety and adverse effects
Part II
- January 2022, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's panel discussion with a group of world renowned doctors
- Medical records of COVID Hospital and Death reporting skewed
- Early At Home Treatment
- Is the Vaccine Effective?
- Vaccine adverse reactions
I will focus mostly on America because I live here and know more about what is going on, as well as because this nation has had a history of being a leader in many areas of economics, foreign policies, and technology. Sadly, today American politics has allegedly become connected with large corporate interests vs. the people's needs through the influx of large sums of donations, kickbacks, and lobbying and we are not presenting good leadership for the rest of the world.
Some points to notice about this pandemic and vaccine rollout. For the first time in vaccine history:
- Acquired Immunity is no longer considered good enough even though many previous studies say it is far better than the shot.
- We have a vaccine that did not take many years to develop.
- We have a Government entity that profits off of the Vaccine. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has joint ownership of the Moderna vaccine patent because of its fundamental role in research and development, starting from the inception of that work and continuing to the present. The U.S. government also owns a patent1 covering key spike-protein technology used in several coronavirus vaccines, including Moderna's and Pfizer-BioNTech's. Moderna reported2 $3.3 billion in third-quarter 2021 profits from its coronavirus vaccine.
- We have governments forcing people to be vaccinated.
- We have a vaccine that required the government to change their definition of "vaccine" so it could be called a vaccine.
- We are fighting a virus that is possibly linked to gain-of-function research which was partially funded by the U.S. government.
- We are being led by a lead government employee in health that may have circumvented the rules to fund gain of function research but who has denied any gain of function involvement by him or any government agency yet earlier is recorded saying that the knowledge learned from gain of function was worth it even if there was a pandemic.
Media, Google, Facebook and others censorship of information about vaccines
If you go to the New York Times and Washington Post (owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos) and read the reader's comments following any subject on republicans, Trump, and conspiracy exposes, there will be approximately 95% comments coming from the liberal "right" with hateful, mocking diatribe against anyone who speaks out with their thoughts or data that doesn't conform to the liberal political and scientific studies for the efficacy and safety of the COVID vaccines, masks, democratic leadership, and science. These two newspapers appear to be among the top liberal newspapers in America.
Likewise, if you use Google search you will find hundreds of articles that "debunk" every conservative theory or study if it comes from a republican, scientist, or doctor on how to safely treat COVID illness, opposition to forced vaccinations, etc. and virtually no links to the articles by those who expose lies and misrepresented facts or hidden knowledge that contradict government agencies and the handling of this pandemic. You have to go to a different search engine to find any links to those articles. In the footnotes I have links to many of these articles, trials, hearings, videos, and conversations with both sides.
Google controls online search and has been censoring all articles that speak out against vaccines and even peer-reviewed articles by scientists presenting a different viewpoint. Likewise, Google-owned YouTube is censoring so-called misinformation and conspiracy theorists, but also videos from respectable scientists and doctors who are challenging government responses to Covid-19.
May 24, 2021, Project Veritas released a video interview with two Facebook insider whistleblowers — a data center technician and a data center facility engineer — who have come forward with internal documents showing how the social media platform is suppressing science and medical facts in the name of combating “vaccine hesitancy.”
Facebook recently rolled out a beta test designed to censor negative vaccine information — regardless of its veracity and truthfulness — with the aim of eventually rolling this censorship program in all nations, in as many languages as possible.
The documents prove Facebook is working on behalf of Big Pharma and in coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization to protect and promulgate the false narrative that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective for everyone. The platform is even hiding posts in which people who dutifully got the shots talk about their adverse effects.
They are also testing...shadow banning, where a user has been secretly banned — which means none of their followers can actually see their posts — yet they continue posting because they’re unaware that the content is not being disseminated...(this) strategy is currently reducing “vaccine hesitant” comments by 42.5% within the test group.3
Is science to be believed unequivocally
Something unique is happening with the COVID-19 pandemic and science. A large portion of people believes that we must trust science, their studies, and conclusions and that doubting any part of their scientific presentations, and the agencies that base their decisions on science makes those people renegades and a detriment to societies to the overcoming of the pandemic.
Daniel Nuccio, biology doctoral student at Northern Illinois University also holding a master's degree in psychology describes what happened to the biologists at the Nothern Illinois University when COVID restrictions came. It is well worth reading his article. He said:
Surely some of these people (biologists) had bothered to make the effort to confirm that our government and university had made sensible decisions on policies that now impacted every aspect of our lives.I found among these biologists and biologists in training was quite the opposite. Instead, I discovered a profound lack of curiosity regarding the science behind the rules that now governed us. Conversations about infection fatality rates, masks, and models at best had the air of a Solomon Asch experiment. At worst, such conversations were met with a certain hostility, or at least condescension toward the idea that one might want evidence for that which had been proclaimed by Pope Fauci, the Church of the CDC, or “The Science.”
...Democrats in the United States long regarded themselves as the champions of science, and this may have seemed reasonable throughout the second Bush administration when Democrats were the ones who usually defended evolutionary biology against creationism...Henceforth, if being a Democrat, an anti-Trumper, or someone who believed in science was part of your core identity, you now found yourself in a position where you would defend “The Science” and all its related leaders, beliefs, and policies and do so on a very core level. It didn’t matter if you had followed “The Science” to a psychological Twilight Zone where a commitment to science was characterized not by critical thought and a careful assessment of data and evidence, but obedience to authority and a defense of symbolic representations of an institution.
Hence, many once seemingly reasonable biologists and biologists in training I knew in the Before Times came to exhibit a profound lack of curiosity, or express hostility and condescension toward the suggestion that one might want evidence for that which had been proclaimed...4
One example is an agreement described in this article5 between Gilead Sciences, the European Union (EU), and the FDA to supply remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19. This was after one study found remdesivir modestly reduced the time to recover from COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with severe illness and a few other smaller studies that found no impact of treatment on the disease whatsoever. Then, on the 15 October 2020, before the FDA signed their contract with GIlead, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Solidarity trial showed that remdesivir does not reduce mortality or the time COVID-19 patients take to recover.
FDA never consulted a group of outside experts (ADAC) that it has in the past to weigh in on complicated antiviral drug issues. One scientist stated, "When it comes to the point of giving pharmaceutical companies exclusive marketing rights in this area, that really is something that's very, very important." These experts should have been part of the discussion.
A second, smaller placebo-controlled study of remdesivir on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China, published online by The Lancet also on 29 April,6 found no statistically significant benefit from the treatment—and the antiviral surprisingly had no impact on levels of the coronavirus. Not only does remdesivir not help severe COVID patients, but WHO found in August 2020 that a disproportionately high number7 of reports of liver and kidney problems in patients receiving remdesivir compared with patients receiving other drugs.
The history of science is littered with well-accepted “facts” and theories that were later revealed to be dogmatic falsehoods. The following are some examples of scientific theories that were later proven wrong:
- In the early 1990s, a researcher at the University of Rochester concluded that a combination of two nonaddictive drugs could be used for the long-term control of obesity. The fen-phen diet craze was born. By 1996, after years of physician recommendations of its use for losing weight the New England Journal of Medicine linked the extended use of fen-phen to a 23-fold increased risk of developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a fatal lung disorder. A later discovery revealed it also caused heart-valve defects. By 1997 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered fen-phen off the market. It is estimated that between 1.2 million and 4.7 million Americans were exposed to the drug combination.
- Back in antiquity, the geocentric model reigned that put the Earth at the center of the solar system.
- Miasma theory held that soil polluted with waste products and decomposing material of any kind gave off a 'miasma' into the air, a poisonous vapor, which caused many major infectious diseases of the day. The miasma theory of disease originated in the Middle Ages and persisted for centuries. Although proven wrong, the theory helped in the understanding of the connection of dirtiness and disease as well as leading scientists to identify microbes as agents of infectious disease.
- Almost all of us at school were taught that atoms were mostly empty, with a dense core and that tiny electrons orbited that core. Our understanding of atoms has changed dramatically over the last century with the discovery of quantum physics aka quantum theory. Quantum physics discovery is that an electron is both a wave and a particle at the same time. You cannot pinpoint exactly where it is at any one time. An electron in its orbital state acts much like a plucked guitar string. It is spread out in a three-dimensional cloud-like wave function that vibrates. The subatomic world of quantum mechanics defies all logic of our macroscopic world with particles that can actually tunnel through walls, appear out of thin air and disappear, stay entangled and choose to behave like waves.
- Hundreds of years ago doctors didn’t blame plaque or bad hygiene for causing tooth decay or rot. Instead, they believed tiny microscopic worms were eating away at the teeth and sweet fruit was the cure to kill the worms.8
Health agencies and their flaws
In the case of government agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. a medical research agency, the FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) they have not served the public and safety of people but many are beginning to see that rather they have followed the money. Anyone who dares speak of what they–and other government officials have done–are ridiculed and demonized. Rather, the voices attempting to expose the truth are blamed for the COVID deaths for spreading fraudulent information and feeding the right-wing people (in this case American republicans and anyone who had supported President Trump) from being vaccinated.
One other organization that is supposedly dedicated to the health of the world's citizens is the World Health Organization (WHO) founded in 1948. Unfortunately, like the U.S. organizations listed above the WHO was quickly infiltrated by Big Tobacco, also to the nuclear and pharmaceuticals industry where they continue today to dictate WHO’s global agenda, which has led WHO to put profits and power ahead of public health. Bill Gates today is also the highest donor to WHO while the U.S. historically has been the largest direct donor. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new book, “Vax-Unvax,” states “Gates has used his money strategically to infect the international aid agencies with his distorted self-serving priorities." Gates has given over $1 billion, Kennedy wrote, and that these are tax-deductible donations which give Gates both leverage and control over international health policy, “which he largely directs to serve the profit interest of his pharma partners.”9
In July 2021 the Christian News site, "The Daily Telegram" posted an article titled Seven Reasons the World Health Organization Cannot Be Trusted.10 While all the points are noteworthy, number 4 is about the WHO Director-General, Marxist Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who before his election - and still has - a cozy relationship with China. Point 7 exposes what happened with China's response to the spread of COVID and Tedros' cooperation with China to keep it hidden.
Lilian Franck, a German film director and producer, created a documentary film "TrustWHO”11 in 2018 revealing the clandestine influences that are controlling the WHO.
Franck covered the 2009 swine flu epidemic and the accusations that followed for creating a fake pandemic. What exactly is a pandemic? WHO’s original definition of a pandemic up until 2009 was:
“An influenza pandemic is a worldwide epidemic caused by a new strain of virus which leads to infection rates and mortality rates which exceed seasonal but similarly heavy waves of influenza by several orders of magnitude. A precondition for an influenza pandemic is the appearance of a viral subtype which had not yet circulated amongst the human population or which had occurred so long ago that no residual immunity remains amongst the population, and which is capable of provoking severe illness and of disseminating effectively from one human to another.”
This definition was changed in the month leading up to the 2009 swine flu pandemic removing "severity of illness" leaving only the definition of a pandemic as “a worldwide epidemic of a disease to which people had no immunity.” Without the association of "enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses" the WHO was able to declare a pandemic in 2009 with only 144 deaths worldwide. This declaration was only made possible by "changing the definition" and by "lowering the threshold for its declaration." The beneficiaries of this declaration were the pharmaceutical companies.
In 2010, the EU investigated the WHO for creating a fake pandemic in order to create a lucrative international vaccine market for Big Pharma. After the pandemic officially ended in August 2010, the WHO declared there were only 18,449 global deaths. In contrast, there are 250,000 to a half a million deaths globally from the annual seasonal flu according to the WHO. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) also launched an investigation into the undue influence of Big Pharma and WHO for falsifying a pandemic in order to create a global vaccine market.
Britain alone had more than 20 million surplus vaccination doses. Plus, the vaccines were not fully tested for safety before they hit the market and many individuals suffered brain damage as well as the vaccine caused thousands to have Guillian-Barre syndrome, a neurological disorder wherein a body’s immune system attack the nerves. It leads to weakness and tingling in the extremities, and in some cases can be severe, leading to other complications and paralysis. Finland began reporting an increased occurrence of narcolepsy in children and youngsters vaccinated. In Sweden, at least 150 children were suffering from narcolepsy caused by the vaccine. Narcolepsy is a lifelong severe chronic neurologic disease that not only results in a disabling fatigue, which typically results in the patient falling asleep anywhere and at any time. It might also lead to panic attacks and a state of exhaustion and when expressing strong feelings such as laughter or crying, to suddenly lose muscular control.
Yet this was not the only vaccination and swine flu fiasco. In 1976 a strain of the swine flu was discovered and the CDC stepped in declaring an upcoming pandemic. Believing an epidemic would possibly kill a million Americans they recommended at least 80 percent of the United States population would need to be vaccinated in order to avoid the pandemic. The WHO did not jump in that time, but had a "wait-and-see" attitude yet the U.S. politicians jumped right on the bandwagon for various political reasons.
Hundreds were adversely affected with Guillian-Barre syndrome. By the fall newspapers had begun reporting other troubling news from vaccine clinics in Pittsburgh: three apparently unexplained deaths due to heart attacks. The CDC notes stated that people who got the vaccination did have an increased risk of “approximately one additional case of GBS for every 100,000 people who got the swine flu vaccine.” They stated there are several theories why “but the exact reason for this link remains unknown". Their website today states, "On very rare occasions, they may develop GBS in the days or weeks after getting a vaccination."
We are told today to trust science, the FDA, the CDC, and the government over our common sense. Yet, science and the government and the CDC got it all wrong in 1976. First, the swine flu strain that was first spotted was not dangerous, and there would be no pandemic. Second, researchers discovered that benign swine flu strains had been circulating in the US population long before this one was identified! Third, scientists who feared another Spanish flu did not know that the 1918 influenza was avian, not swine. And lastly, researchers at the time also suffered from the universal psychological tendency to assume that future events will closely resemble recent experience. Yet data cannot predict the future, although stock market brokers try to tell us otherwise! The researchers based their claims on experience from the 1950s and 60s, believing that major influenza pandemics happened on an 11-year cycle, when they are actually more irregular.
Big Pharma
In an editorial published by a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, The BMJ (formerly The British Medical Journal)—one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world—revealed how much corruption was happening in the UK connected with the pharmaceutical industry. You can read the article here. link A summary of this editorial published April 2005 titled The influence of Big Pharma” states:
The report describes a strong United Kingdom pharmaceutical industry, whose net exports are worth over £3bn ($5.6bn; €4.3bn) annually. The industry's declared goal is “to bring patients life-enhancing medicines,” a goal “not only necessary but noble.” The House of Commons health committee examined the means used to achieve this noble end. They found an industry that buys influence over doctors, charities, patient groups, journalists, and politicians, and whose regulation is sometimes weak or ambiguous. For example, the Department of Health, responsible for a national health service that spends £7.5bn on drugs annually, is also responsible for representing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry.12
For example, the New England Journal of Medicine—among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal—published 73 studies of new drugs. Of those studies, a pharmaceutical company funded 60, 50 had drug-company employees among the authors and 37 lead researchers had accepted money from a drug company, according to a review conducted by the Washington Post.13
Big Pharma’s chokehold around the U.S. political system surpasses that of practically any other industry. In 2021, the pharmaceutical/health products industry has spent $171 million lobbying lawmakers.14 In 2020, the industry spent over $300 million on lobbying. This means drug companies greatly influence the majority of medical information provided to the public. For example, the FDA division that approves new opioid drugs receives 75% of its funding from the industry.
The other important branch of health care that is infiltrated by Big Pharma are physicians. It’s no secret that pharmaceutical companies spend plenty of money on doctors but also scientists—upwards of over a billion dollars15 annually in the U.S. Pharmaceutical and medical device companies gave $8.18 billion to doctors and teaching hospitals in the U.S. in 2016, an increase of $90M over the previous year, according to new numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.16 Doctors are recipients of large and small gifts from free pens and dinners to vacations and annual "consulting fees" as high as $200,000 and giving talks at sponsored conferences and events. There has been growing evidence that these payments do subtly influence how doctors behave, both with their patient interactions and in the research they carry out. In turn, any time a patient receives a free sample of a drug or cosmetic from a doctor, this handout comes from pharmaceutical companies.17
Source of Pandemic Outbreak - Lab leak or natural occurrence?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible and pathogenic coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 that has caused a pandemic of acute respiratory disease, named "coronavirus disease 2019" (COVID-19). The COVID-19 outbreak of respiratory illness was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei province, China beginning around December 2019. While SARS-CoV-2 is not as virulent as SARS-CoV-1 (2003), it is transmitted far more easily between people.
Two of the most prominent features of the SARS-CoV-2 spike are its receptor-binding domain (RBD), which binds very tightly to human ACE2, the protein that allows it to enter lung cells, and the so-called furin cleavage site (FCS). The spike proteins protrude from the surface of the virus. The viral variant that began this pandemic is dangerous because its spike proteins can latch onto cells in the lower respiratory tract — the lung and bronchial cells — as well as cells in the heart, kidney, liver, brain, gut lining, stomach or blood vessels. After the virus has entered a human cell, the viral protein NSP1 is produced as one of the first viral proteins. NSP1 inhibits the production of the cell's own proteins, Ribosomes are the cellular machines that produce proteins. They read the blueprint, the so-called messenger RNA, for a given protein and assemble the amino acids in the corresponding order. During reading, the messenger RNA passes through a channel on the ribosome. Researchers found that NSP1 binds to this channel and thus blocks the ribosome.
At some point, this (novel) coronavirus obtained a sequence in its spike protein that allows it to be cleaved in two by an enzyme found in its host (humans) called furin. Once inside the cell the furin cleaves the spike protein, exposing a new sequence that allows it to bind to another host cell protein and co-hijack its function, once its released from an infected cell, priming the virus to spread to new cells more efficiently. That protein Is called neuropilin 1 and it could be this that makes Sars-CoV–2 so highly infectious in many organs.
We have heard from the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020 that the virus most likely came from wild bats and may have started in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Anyone who did not go along with this claim, whether scientist, investigator or individuals who studied the virus and how it works, were ridiculed and condemned. Investigators tested more than 80,000 animals in China, including hundreds linked to the Wuhan seafood market associated with the early cases of COVID-19, but "no positive result was identified for SARS-CoV-2," the WHO study on the origins of COVID-19 says. Further, the inability to find the host species in nature is very telling. It took only four months to find the host for SARS, and nine months for MERS. Yet more than 15 months on, Beijing hasn’t identified the host species for this coronavirus — something for which they’ve surely searched high and low.
Richard Muller, emeritus professor of physics at the University of California Berkeley, and Dr. Steven Quay, a physician and founder of Atossa Therapeutics, said SARS-CoV-2's unique trigger of the FCS and a unique code in its genes for that site, called a CGG-CGG dimer combination has never been found naturally and therefore points to a lab-manipulated virus.
Specifically, he said, "the part of the virus that interacts with human cells was 99.5% optimized" compared to SARS1 and MERS where it took weeks to evolve through the population to reach its most contagious form. "Such early optimization is unprecedented, and it suggests a long period of adaptation that predated its public spread," Quay and Muller wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about their findings. "Science knows of only one way that could be achieved: simulated natural evolution, growing the virus on human cells until the optimum is achieved." This is called gain-of-function (GoF) research and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is one of a few worldwide that do GoF research.
Not surprisingly, two years later after much investigation into links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology—that is right next door (8 miles) to the Wuhan Wet Market—the possibilities of a lab leak are gaining ground. In the summer of 2021, an intelligence review ordered by President Joe Biden drew no definitive conclusions but left open the possibility that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
One of the most detailed and enlightening article on the possible link to the Wuhan lab is Nicholas Wade's article on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.18 The Bulletin was founded in Chicago in 1945 as a nonprofit by Manhattan Project scientists, is a preeminent publication that informs the public about threats to human survival resulting from accelerating technological advances that have negative consequences for humanity.
Gain of Function Research?
Dr Fauci, adviser to President Biden and director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—part of the NIH—and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and other health officials testified before the Senate on May 11, 2021. Then again, they testified before the Senate on July 20, 2021 to provide updates on the COVID-19 response and again in January 2022 on the latest confusing stance of the CDC. In the earlier hearings they answered questions on ongoing COVID-19 prevention measures and guidance.
In all three hearings, Senator Rand Paul questioned Dr. Fauci on various points such as if the NIH was financing gain-of-function research. In May 2021, Fauci denied that they had stating that the NIH "has not ever and does not now fund GoF research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology". Two weeks earlier the NIH revealed they had indirectly funded the Wuhan lab, and Dr. Fauci admitted that the money was funneled to the Chinese lab through the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance in 2014 to fund “a modest collaboration with very respectable Chinese scientists who were world experts on coronavirus.”
However, the Australian published an article that exposed Dr. Anthony Fauci in a 2012 paper, defending risky lab research at the risk of triggering a lab leak pandemic. Fauci wrote:
“Scientists working in this field might say—as indeed I have said—that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky. However, we must respect that there are genuine and legitimate concerns about this type of research, both domestically and globally. We cannot expect those who have these concerns to simply take us, the scientific community, at our word that the benefits of this work outweigh the risks, nor can we ignore their calls for greater transparency, their concerns about conflicts of interest, and their efforts to engage in a dialog about whether these experiments should have been performed in the first place. Those of us in the scientific community who believe in the merits of this work have the responsibility to address these concerns thoughtfully and respectfully.“ 19
Senator Paul, in one hearing, referred to two academic papers by the Chinese institute, one from 2015 (written together with the University of North Carolina), and another from 2017. From those papers it was revealed that "the authors genetically grafted spike proteins—the viral keys that grant access to mammalian cells—from eight different, naturally occurring coronaviruses onto another coronavirus from the wild, called WIV1. They found that these new creations, in lab dishes, could infect monkey kidney cells, as well as human cells, through the same gateway—the widely expressed ACE2 receptor—that is used by SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. And these experiments were done at a time when funding for some GOF science was barred.
A report that recently came to light states that EcoHealth Alliance approached The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in March 2018, seeking funding to conduct GoF research of bat-borne coronaviruses. The proposal, named Project Defuse, was rejected by DARPA over safety concerns and the notion that it violates the basis GoF research moratorium. Yet, according to the documents, NIAID , under the direction of Dr. Fauci, went ahead with the research in Wuhan, China and at several sites across the U.S. DARPA's report outlines why EcoHealth Alliance’s proposal was rejected as it classified the research as gain of function.
One prominent scientist supporting this view—and quoted by Senator Paul—is Prof Richard Ebright of Rutgers University. He told the BBC that the research in both papers showed that new viruses (that did not already exist naturally) were created, and these "risked creating new potential pathogens" that were more infectious. "The research in both papers was gain-of-function research", he said.
EcoHealth received $3.4m from the NIH, $600,000 of which was given to the WIV. The NIH cut off funding to EcoHealth Alliance in April of 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
Leaked emails revealed by Senator Paul from Dr. Fauci appears there may be manipulated information regarding a possible lab leak. Paul said,
They have looked to see if this came from animals naturally. This is what Dr. Fauci started saying early on...he realized on January 31 (2020), he gets very urgent messages from four scientists saying that it looks like this virus was manipulated in the lab. He also has a paper that he sends to his assistant that is a gain of function paper that NIH funded and their alarm that it didn’t go through any kind of process or screening that it was supposed to be going through this type of screening, they were alarmed that they would be associated with this,” said Paul. “They organized, including the guy that was funding the research lab, Peter de Zack, they organized a letter. And in the private emails are saying, hey, you don’t sign it, you don’t sign it, because we made—we want it to appear as if it’s an independent effort that we had nothing to do with organizing this.”
Early in the pandemic, multiple scientists urged NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH director, Francis Collins, to seriously consider the theory that Covid escaped from a Chinese laboratory, arguing that the lab-leak theory, which Fauci and Collins have downplayed since the pandemic began, was more plausible than the natural origin explanation.20
During a February 2020 conference call of experts, Mike Farzan, an immunology researcher and the discoverer of the SARS receptor, Bob Garry, a virology expert, and Dr. Andrew Rambaut, a British evolutionary biologist, all observed that a particular feature of the virus, the “furin cleavage site,” was peculiar and suggested gain-of-function engineering. Garry said about the furin cleavage site
(The furin cleavage site) would be unlikely to emerge in nature in a way that made the virus highly transmissible in humans... I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus or one very similar to it to nCoV where you insert exactly 4 amino acids 12 nucleotides that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain this function – that and you don’t change any other amino acid in S2? I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.
On January 11, 2022 Republican leaders on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees sent a letter21 to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, releasing excerpts of emails they say reveal NIAI Director Dr. Anthony Fauci knew that COVID-19 may have been intentionally modified and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The letter also pointed to a conference call that included Fauci and former NIH Director Francis Collins in which the virus's origins were discussed.
Their letter reveals a month after the February 2020 virus and immunology experts meeting where notes were sent to presented to Fauci and Collins and obtained by congressional Republicans, Collins publicly stated that the lab-leak hypothesis was “outrageous.” On May 4, 2020, Fauci similarly told National Geographic in an exclusive interview that Covid-19 “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.”22
July 4 2020: The Times of London reports that a virus 96 percent identical to the coronavirus that causes covid-19 was found in an abandoned copper mine in China in 2012. The bat-infested copper mine in southwestern China was home to a coronavirus that left six men sick with pneumonia, with three eventually dying, after they had been tasked with shoveling bat guano out of the mine. This virus was collected in 2013 and then stored and studied at WIV.
Jan. 15 2021: Days before Trump leaves office, the State Department issues a “fact sheet” on WIV that states: “The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both covid-19 and common seasonal illnesses. . . . The WIV has a published record of conducting ‘gain-of-function’ research to engineer chimeric viruses. But the WIV has not been transparent or consistent about its record of studying viruses most similar to the covid-19 virus, including ‘RaTG13,’ which it sampled from a cave in Yunnan Province in 2013 after several miners died of SARS-like illness.”
In May 2021 the Wall Street Journal reported about three researchers referenced above becoming ill in November of 2019 and that they sought hospital treatment. (note: No mention is made of the miners who died.) Though it is not clear whether the workers contracted coronavirus, their hospitalization coincides with the period when most experts believe the virus was spreading through the city of Wuhan.
This link will take you to The Wuhan Lab Leak Theory, a chronological history of comments and happenings in regards to natural origin vs. lab leak of the coronavirus. The information was compiled from the Ottawa SUN news but since the page is loaded with advertisements I have taken the history and compiled it onto a readable page without the ads.
Emergency use vaccines safety and approval
The FDA's supposed objective is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs before they make it into the hands of patients. Each drug must first go through a series of clinical trials. Data obtained from these trials are meant to be analyzed to determine the safety and effectiveness of the new drug before it makes it into the hands of patients via their doctors. Dr. Don Harte, a 40-year chiropractic veteran, states succinctly what is the problem today within the FDA, NIH, and CDC. He said:
“The FDA, the agency responsible for the safety of new and old vaccines and other drugs, only granted the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines approval under ‘emergency’ provisions, as these are officially classed as experimental.” He points out, “The real crime, the real gross irresponsibility, is that the FDA has not made clear to the public that these vaccines are (1) experimental, and (2), they are not, by definition, vaccines.” Dr. Harte clarifies: “These so-called vaccines are in Phase III, and are definitely experimental, as are the tests for Covid-19. A vaccine contains some of the pathogen, the disease-causing virus or bacteria, to stimulate artificial immunity. These ‘vaccines” have no pathogen. They are designed to hijack one’s genetic machinery, fooling the body’s cells into producing the spike protein of the virus.” Dr. Harte adds, “this is the modern genetic version of the fictional Dr. Frankenstein. The monster will surely ravage the village! But how, and when?” He concludes, “We have a disgraceful lie of omission, to fool the public, to sell the vaccines, to sell the loss of liberty and normal life. And let us keep in mind that these government agencies, the vaccine manufacturers, the doctors, have ZERO liability. Is this public knowledge?”
For many years, the NIH budget has been providing less and less money to fund clinical trials. Because of this, Big Pharma pays for and runs the majority of these trials. According to critics, this could allow drug companies to fake study results or hide dangerous side effects to get their drug approved or increase sales.23 As many are well aware, the NIH then provides the data to the FDA for drug approvals and safety reviews after the drug hits the market. This practice allows more drugs being approved to then reach patients sooner for new treatments but it also is believed to lead to unknown risks, as has come to light since the new emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines has shown. Yet how many lay citizens in each country who have mandatory requirements to receive these vaccines or are forced to by threats of loss of their jobs, air travel or intimidation are aware of the dangers and risk of negative reactions to these vaccines? There are several sides to this answer for which I will go into greater detail for each answer in Part II.
First article on the Heart of Pandemics here and part II "Heart of Pandemics Update here.
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1NIH Government patent.
2Moderna 2021 third quarter results.
3Facebook insiders reveal vaccine censorship.
4Daniel Nuccio, biology doctoral student at Northern Illinois University article on believing science without investigating facts.
5Gilead Sciences, the European Union (EU), and the FDA agreement to supply remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19.
6Study of remdesivir on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China, published by The Lancet.
7The WHO study reports of liver and kidney problems in patients receiving remdesivir.
8"More examples" of scientific studies later proven wrong.
9“Vax-Unvax” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released November 2021.
10The Daily Telegram article "WHO cannot be trusted."
11Documentary "Trust WHO".
12 Report published in the British Medical Journal, "The Influence of Big Pharma".
13Washington Post article on pharmaceutical companies lobbying and advertising funding studies and biased results.
14Big Pharma's lobbying and advertising campaign to kill a Democratic proposal to lower the cost of prescription drugs article by Washington Post. "Big Pharma continues to top lobbying spending" article by OpenSecrets.
15JAMA study on "Types and Distribution of Payments From Industry to Physicians in 2015".
16Article by Drugwatch, Big Pharma and Medical Device Manufacturers.
17Information and study by Drugwatch, "Drug and Device Companies Gave Billions to Doctors in 2016. Sources taken from data available through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Government data.
18Nicholas Wade's "The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?" article from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
19News Record article on 2012 paper in which Dr. Fauci argued that even if it caused a lab-leak global pandemic, the “gain-of-function” research should still have been done.
20National Review June 2021 article "Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated".
21House Oversight and Judiciary committees letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerramer.
22Dr. Fauci exclusive interview with National Geographic, May 4, 2020.
23Digital Journal article, "Most clinical trials today are funded by Big Pharma".