European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union Address on Wednesday included a list of the accomplishments of the European Union under her leadership, including this pearl (expressed in the characteristically unidiomatic English of European officialdom): “We have set the building blocks for a Health Union, helping to vaccinate an entire continent – and large parts of the world.” (For video of the speech, see here; for text, here.)
No mention of the fact that the EU vaccinated the European continent for the most part with a vaccine – that of the German company BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer – whose safety and efficacy were unknown per the very terms of the contract which the Commission signed with the companies on behalf of all EU member states, as can be seen below.
Here, as a reminder, is what the same passage looks like in the redacted version of the contract released by the Commission.
(The unredacted version, as discussed in my article here, was published by the Italian public broadcaster RAI over two years ago, but has gone largely ignored, undoubtedly due in no small part to suppression on social media.)
No mention either of the fact that the published results of the very clinical trial which was the basis for the emergency authorisation of the drug include an explicit acknowledgement that it remains unknown whether the so-called vaccine prevents transmission of the virus.
This, of course, undermines the very rationale for “vaccinating an entire continent”, including large swathes of people who were not themselves at virtually any risk from the normally mild illness, but could well be from the allegedly unknown (at the time) adverse effects of the drug.
No mention finally of the fact that even if there was no public-health logic to “vaccinating an entire continent”, there was indeed a mercantile logic for at least one EU member state: namely, Germany. As recounted in my short history of the BioNTech-Pfizer partnership here, the German Government not only supported BioNTech from its inception, but sponsored its very founding.
Ursula von der Leyen was herself a member of the German Government which sponsored the founding of BioNTech in 2008. She had also been a member of the German Government which, after her move to the European Commission in late 2019, would go on to pour another €375 million in subsidies into supporting BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
While the rest of the European economy suffered, in 2021-2022, the years of mass vaccinating the European continent (“and large parts of the world”), BioNTech would go from earning zero profits to earning €31 billion in profits on a nearly 80% profit margin, thus becoming the veritable motor of German economic growth. (For these figures, see here.)
In perhaps not unrelated news, on September 1st, 10 days before the American FDA made a similar announcement, the European Commission announced that it was authorising BioNTech-Pfizer’s “[XBB.1.5-]adapted COVID-19 vaccine for Member States’ autumn vaccination campaigns”.
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The claimed numbers won’t be backed up with verifiable data, will they?
“No mention of the fact that the EU vaccinated the European continent for the most part with a vaccine – that of the German company BioNTech and its American partner Pfizer “
There were 28 ‘vaccines’/vaccines developed for C19. Across 41 of European countries there were 10 ‘vaccines’/vaccines used:
Corbevax (Protein Subunit)
J&J (adenovirus vector)
Moderna (mRNA)
Novavax (Matrix M-adjuvant)
Oxford/AZ (mRNA)
Pfizer/BNT (mRNA)
Sanofi/GSK (Protein Subunit)
Sinopharm – Beijing (Whole Inactivated Virus)
Sinovac (Whole Inactivated Virus)
Sputnik V (Adenovirus viral vector)
Valneva (inactivated, adjuvanted)
On average 4 ‘vaccines’/vaccines were used per European country, but also across the planet.
There were no control groups while those with no known medical knowledge or understand advocated mixing any, as all were considered safe and effective, while only having emergency use authorisation. Early on there was a doctor stating that vaccinating during a pandemic is a very bad idea and must stop. Recently there have been a number of videos about breakthrough infections and virus mutations being driven by mass vaccination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfE_Z0gCSM
Actress Melissa Joan Hart has revealed she’s quite sick with COVID, despite being fully vaccinated and wants to encourage others to “stay safe.”
It’s a celebrity endorsed pro-mask message.
She is a contemporary version of the Useful Idiot.
LOL..My school age children gave me a cold..(well there’s a shocker..and something that never happens)….
now I want to tack masks onto every child because it’s their fault…
what a wank*r…!
‘We enslaved a continent!’ would be more like it!
Or:
“We poisoned a continent”
“We defrauded a continent”
“We frightened a continent”
“We lied to a continent”
And we haven’t finished yet…
Ultimately, ‘We ruined a continent’ and ‘We destroyed a continent!’
I knew a person could sleepwalk but I never knew a whole continent could.
Whenever I see a picture of this lady making an address I get the feeling of a dictator threatening the population with something in the most Orwellian language possible.
Bit like Merkel or her Dad Adolph !
yes..me too..the fact that she has that German accent that we in the UK associate with bad people doesn’t help!! Ve hav vays of injecting you!!
I get the same feeling when I see Ed Miliband, Nicola Sturgeon, Biden, plus any cretin standing at UN podium telling us we must save the f…king planet before it is too late. We could not be defeated by tanks and guns but now there is a new approach to conquer us with mass immigration, phony climate science and virus scare stories.
B1tch of the highest order !!..
She like her masters are evil to the core.
Ursula von der Mengele: wanted for mass enforced medical experimentation; mass murderer, crimes against Humanity.
We hobbled the immune systems of an entire continent so we can keep them ill, continue to sell them drugs and make a killing!
Well, probably more like half a continent. They love to exaggerate how many people took their snake oil.
Nah luv, not the whole continent. Quite a few resisted you, including me and most of us here on DS. Jog on, try again. You and your kind will ultimately fail and you will slither away on your bellies.
Vaccinate the whole continent and at the same time turn the whole continent into Nigeria.
She’s a crook.