Spiegel: 2009 swine flu pandemic a boostfor Big Pharma

LISTEN | PRINTBY R. C. CAMPHAUSEN MAR 14, 2010 IN BUSINESS

Those who suspected a money- and greed-driven conspiracy behind the 2009swine flu outbreak - declared a pandemic by overzealous WHO officials and theiradvisers from within the industry - are being proven right by recent revelations inDer Spiegel.

The article Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria - The Swine Flu Panic of 2009 inSpiegel Online of March 12 will hopefully not be the last one to show that the so-called pandemic of 2009 was engineered, but it does provide ample information toshow that the so-called 'conspiracy theorist' were far from being nutty or plaincrazy. Instead, so it emerges now, they had their finger right on the pulse of whathad been happening.

The article in Germany's foremost investigative magazine is long and ratherexhaustive in its reconstruction of events, and the following excerpt clearly spellsout what is becoming public knowledge, and what may serve as a guide to realevidence when a multitude of individuals and nations will soon take the companiesand individuals to court:

"The pharmaceutical industry did not influence any of our decisions," saysFukuda. But in mid-May, about three weeks before the swine flu was declareda pandemic, 30 senior representatives of pharmaceutical companies met withWHO Director-General Chan and United Nations Secretary General Ban KiMoon at WHO headquarters. The official reason for the meeting was todiscuss ways to ensure that developing countries would be provided withpandemic vaccine. But at this point in time the vaccine industry was mainlyinterested in one question: the decision to declare phase 6.

Everything hung on this decision. At stake was nothing less than a move tosupply large segments of the world's population with flu vaccine. Phase 6acted as a switch that would allow bells on the industry's cash registers toring, risk-free. That's because many pandemic vaccine contracts had alreadybeen signed. Germany, for example, signed an agreement with the British firmGlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2007 to buy its pandemic vaccine -- as soon asphase 6 was declared. This agreement could explain why Professor RoyAnderson, one key scientific advisor to the British government, declared theswine flu a pandemic on May 1. What he neglected to say was that GSK waspaying him an annual salary of more than €130,000 ($177,000).

This answers some of the questions and emerging suspicions earlier reported byDigital Journal, in several articles that can be found here, here and here. Followingthe various leads and leaks now provided to the public, and the public prosecutorsin various countries, other investigations by other media will surely follow soon.

Another interesting fact is, for example, that certain pharmaceutical companieshad made deals and signed agreements with governments already in 2007, waybefore the swine flu broke out, contracts that stipulated that when and if apandemic would be declared, those government would become multi-millionbuyers of the respective vaccines.

The Spiegel article ends by discussing the brave example of the Polish healthminister, the 53-year-old physician Ewa Kopacz who was one of the few politicianswho apparently saw through the scam and declined to be part of it. Other politicalleaders, left, right or middle, should have followed her lead. The article says:

When she stepped up to the podium in the Polish parliament, the Sejm,during its vaccine debate, she wore a bright-red dress -- her combat gear. "As adoctor, my first obligation is to harm no one," she said. For this reason, sheadded, Poland was not going to follow in the rest of Europe's footsteps. "Wewill not purchase any vaccine against the swine flu," Kopacz told the Sejm.

Politicians grumbled, but the health minister stood her ground. "Is it my dutyto sign agreements that are in the interest of Poles, or in the interest of thepharmaceutical companies?" she asked.

Today, Europe can admire her steadfastness. About 170 people died of theswine flu in Poland, a much lower number than the annual death tollattributable to the seasonal flu.

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