I know it’s not the repudiation we hoped for, but the widening displeasure over the deeply idiotic and imprudent contracts that the European Union negotiated with Pfizer and BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine doses says a lot about where the vaccinators find themselves, politically and socially, at this late hour.
That erstwhile pillar of the vaccinator-industrial complex, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, has revealed a markedly reduced enthusiasm for the vaccines and their procurement in the past months. After attacking the lack of transparency surrounding the contract negotiations, they’ve found the energy to deplore all the worthless vaccine that our health ministers have purchased:
In Germany, by the end of March 2023, around 83 million COVID-19 vaccine doses expired and were thrown away by with the federal government alone. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has informed a private session of Bundestag budget committee of these developments …
These figures raise many questions. Did Germany, especially under Lauterbach’s predecessor Jens Spahn (CDU), but also during Lauterbach’s tenure during the fight against the pandemic, order too much vaccine? Could they have avoided these costs, which reach into the billions? Or did the state have no choice, because it was not foreseeable how many people would get vaccinated, and how many injections would be needed for effective protection in the longer run?
What devastating answers all of these questions have.
In any case, the EU and the Federal Republic of Germany have purchased far more vaccine than is needed now. As the Ministry of Health informed the Bundestag, Germany has donated 120 million vaccine doses to other countries. Even after these donated doses left the central warehouse, further doses nevertheless expired …
The Ministry explains that additional doses have expired “at the various stages” of the supply chain. This refers to doses shipped to wholesalers, pharmacies and doctors’ offices. These parties are in turn responsible for “proper disposal”, the ministry explains. They did not provide figures on how many doses had expired and been destroyed by these wholesalers, pharmacies and medical practices. It is possible that these numbers have not been collected.
In other words: The 83 million figure represents a floor; nobody actually knows or is all that eager to tabulate how many doses have been thrown away.
When asked by the SZ, the Ministry of Health did not say how much the expired and destroyed doses at the federal level cost. Publicly available data nevertheless supports the assumption that the costs to the taxpayer… are in the billions.
And that may not be all.
Through the start of 2023, the federal government had ordered a total of 672 million doses for 13.1 billion Euros, generally via the EU. Each jab therefore costs on average just under 20 Euros … According to the Ministry of Health, by the start of May, around 192 million doses had been injected in Germany, and some of the deliveries are still outstanding.
More than a year ago, the Berlin-based newspaper Tagesspiegel asked whether Lauterbach was threatened with “billions in damages”. At that time, it was already becoming apparent that vaccine could remain unused. In mid-2022, 3.9 million vaccine doses had expired. By the beginning of 2023, there were already 36.6 million vaccine doses. And now, only five months later, it is already 83 million. By the end of last year, approximately 54 million doses had expired and in the first quarter of 2023, approximately 29 million doses had been destroyed, the ministry informed the Bundestag.
Possibly even more vaccine will have to be destroyed. As of the beginning of May, the Federal Government still has stores amounting to around 120 million doses. Their future is “fraught with uncertainty” and depends, among other things, on the future course of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health informed the Bundestag. The Federal Government still intends to give “unneeded vaccine” to other countries.
Not a single country anywhere on earth can be found to take this stuff.
To avoid having to destroy more vaccine, the EU has now negotiated a partial cancellation of supply contracts with the pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer. A “cancellation fee” is due for this, Lauterbach informed the Bundestag. According to reports, Lauterbach did not give a figure. The cancellation fees for unwanted vaccine is likely to reach costs in Germany alone of hundreds of millions of Euros.
While the details of the deal are officially secret, an outraged Polish health minister revealed several weeks ago that Pfizer and BioNTech have demanded that EU countries pay 50% of the cost for every previously ordered yet unneeded vaccine dose.
At the end of the article there lurks this foul paragraph:
With early access to safe and effective vaccines, many lives have been saved and millions of people have been protected from serious illness. The economic costs of the pandemic have also been reduced and the “impact on social life has been noticeably mitigated”. The vaccine surplus is a consequence of this strategy. This is how the Ministry of Health justified the bulk purchases in the Bundestag.
We’ve been over this many times at the plague chronicle, but as long as politicians and the press continue to indulge in these hollow excuses, I’ll keep repeating myself: It’s strange indeed that enthusiasm for these SaFE aNd EfFeCtIvE vaccines should have plummeted in precise inverse correlation to public experience with them. You’d almost think that the more the vaccinators were allowed to vaccinate, the more everybody decided the vaccines weren’t for them after all. This is hardly the response you’d expect to such miraculous, life-saving, side effect-free products.
A great many journalists, bureaucrats, politicians and ordinary people were complicit in the excesses of the past several years, and as the policies of the pandemic continue to sour, they’ll do anything but talk about it. This more than anything is the reason for the deafening silence surrounding all of these matters. What critique there is will increasingly attach itself to isolated matters, such as school closures, and to specific initiatives in which few participated directly, such as the buying of vaccines. They’ll do everything they can to assign blame in those few areas, where they can’t be blamed themselves.
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And when Billy releases his next ‘absolutely devastating, world threatening, never before encountered’ pandemic the same treacherous lackeys will do it all again, as ordered.
And we will still have our super-efficient, unsullied and non-compromised immune systems to protect us so Gatesy can just eat shit and die. Actually he can eat his own lab-grown meat with a side of Krunchy Crickets, then die. Same difference.
Yup.
Tip of the iceberg. I seem to recall that, before the Covid-19 came to life, the UK NHS had a go at increasing the use of ‘flu jabs, with a reduced age range for free ones (I think it used to be 65, but now 55). They were a bit quiet about the sums, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot had been purchased and chucked out. The shelf life of that kind of thing is strongly seasonal, and when they tried to “sell” it to me, it was too late in the Winter to be of much use.
The Canadians ordered enough quackcines to quack every Canadian 5 times over – repeated in almost every country.
They should analyse batches of these poisons and find out what is in them. Ah but that would be too much real science and effort for the little darlings.
Was it not obvious at the time, when they where all ordering about 12 doses per head of population that it was going a bit OTT. Even if these had been the magic cure they where marketed as, it would still have been unnecessary.
A bit OTT is putting it mildly
By ordering such ridiculous quantities of something that clearly was of little use (even if actually effective, then apparenly only for about 2 hours or so…), I can’t really see this as being driven by a desire to cover all bases and eventualities, but rather by bank accounts that got significantly fatter with each 1 million doses of the poison ordered. Kickbacks really are the best explanation for the over-ordering, the refusal to disclose any details whatsoever backs up that view.
It’s necessary when moving public money into private hands.
What better way to prove the anti-vaxxers and science deniers were wrong all along, then to rub their faces in the proof? Disclosure of all the pandemic measures and how well they worked, having been reviewed thoroughly by independent experts, disclosure of the all the vaxx info, including government reports on AE. Disclosure of the contract details, set alongside a cost/benefit analysis to show that the billions paid out to a pharmaceutical corporation with a list of criminal convictions as long as your arm were absolutely worth it, and that having invested those multiple billions in hospitals and health care staff would have been pointless, even though the latter investment could be used for a multitude of other public health issues in addition to corona.
There really is no better way to prove that you got it right and the nay-sayers got it wrong than refusing to disclose any information whatsoever, even to the people’s representatives or public enquiry bodies. Disregard the cynics who say that if you have to hide the data, you are hiding your incompetence and/or corruption.
Well, spot what is happening in UK politics now, with the resistance to releasing too much evidence to the Inquiry (which hasn’t happened yet). Of course there’s a game being played between the usual suspects (e.g. https://www.gbnews.com/politics/boris-johnson-releases-private-messages-as-ex-pm-undermines-rishi-sunak-s-government ), and the Servants are concerned about the loss of in-house secrecy. They do not want to have to hand all the modern records to the Inquiry on this issue, nor any other in the future.
Same here in NL. The “inquiry” is supposed to be completed at the beginning of 2026. The next general election happens to be in spring of 2025, what a fortunate coincidence for this corrupted cabinet. Also fortunate for them that the well-respected former speaker of parliament and head of the corona inquiry got hounded out of parliament due to anonymous letters with vague accusations – she was respected by all parties (except her own, the Dutch Labour Party, who turned its back on her and let her get crucified by the cabinet parties – one of which, natch, had instigated the rumours) and was deemed someone who would get to the truth.
In the meantime, the health minister has refused on several occasions to disclose, to parliament itself, the audio recordings and official reports of the meetings of the Outbreak Management Team, which OMT presented measures violating a number of laws, including the constitution, caused great detriment to the economy and society as a whole and encouraged the type of rhetoric against the unvaxxed last heard in NL when our neighbours to the east dropped in for a little occupation. Beyond shameless to withhold this information from the democratically elected representatives of the people. The current cabinet would appear to be taking orders from someone other than the Dutch citizens. Rutte’s name will go down in ignominy, somewhat amusing that the history teacher will himself become a black footnote in history.
My MP was quite happy to talk about it when encouraged to look at the available evidence. A couple of his most recent comments:
16th March 2023 – “the UK Government acted with integrity and with the best intentions throughout the pandemic”
11th May 2023 – “I am incredibly proud of the strong role the UK played internationally in producing a viable vaccine, and also the incredible speed in which the NHS rolled it out domestically.”
I suspect no amount of information will change that unless it becomes a career-limiting factor.
They keep on about their “incredibly successful” roll-out.
pity it wasn’t the usual delayed shambles…
…but the farce continues..I mean the Pharma companies just need those extra billions….
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-000437_EN.html
On 29 April 2022, three EU Member States asked the Commission to terminate COVID-19 vaccine contracts and stop deliveries. Ten Member States backed this request, arguing that the ‘quantities exceed countries’ needs’, and asked for a response by 16 June 2022.
However, according to Reuters, although negotiations are still ongoing, the Commission has reportedly committed to buying almost half a billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine in 2023, at a total cost of EUR 8-10 billion to be paid by the Member States. Deliveries have been planned for 2024 despite Brussels recognising that there is a ‘mismatch between supply and demand’ and that Member States have ‘no desire to spend money on unneeded doses’
It’s difficult to find out what the UK is doing but a contract was signed for 114 million additional doses of Moderna and Pfizer for 2022/2023 …I expect this is the tip of the iceberg….
The Covid Money Laundering Operation appears to still be in full swing!!?
To what extent are people choosing not to get repeated boosters because of the harm they’ve witnessed in themselves, friends or family and to what extent is just a case of now the “serious risk” of covid is no longer being rammed down our throats, and most people don’t know anyone who has become seriously ill with it they just realise jabs aren’t worth bothering with even if they still think they’re pretty safe?
I wonder if Ursula’s hubby will be giving back 50% of his take?