While COVID-19 vaccine critics are busy celebrating the fall of Pfizer’s share price and its legal troubles in the USA, the German company BioNTech, the actual legal manufacturer of the so-called ‘Pfizer vaccine’ and the main financial beneficiary of its sales, is continuing its expansion with the full and open support of Germany and the EU. On Monday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and BioNTech co-founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci gathered in the Rwandan capital of Kigali to celebrate the inauguration of BioNTech’s new African mRNA vaccine manufacturing site.
The gala event is documented in the Reuters stream here or, in full, in the local RwandaTV stream below.
According to Germany’s dpa wire service, citing official sources, the German Government has contributed €550 million (£479m, $605m) to the project, €500 million coming from the development aid budget. It is not clear how much of this money is going to BioNTech and how much to related local beneficiaries. In any case, after having cleared over €30 billion in profits on sales of its COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 and 2022, BioNTech will surely not need much help.
It should be noted that the German Government already subsidised the expansion of BioNTech’s manufacturing capacity in Europe by way of the €375 million grant it provided to the company in September 2020, before BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate – its only product to date – had even won regulatory approval. Two days later, BioNTech announced that it was purchasing what would become its main European production facility: the Behringwerke in Marburg.
In addition to the €550 million from the German Government, the European Commission has announced that the EU is contributing another €40 million to the project as a “Global Gateway investment”. “Local manufacturing of vaccines with mRNA technology, in Africa, for the African people, will be a game changer in the fight against diseases and pandemics,” Commission President von der Leyen is quoted as saying in the announcement. “The EU is proud to work with Rwanda and BioNTech to develop a vibrant biopharmaceutical industry on the continent.”
In his speech at the Kigali event, Rwandan President Kagame thanked von der Leyen for her “instrumental” role “in initiating the collaboration with BioNTech”.
Referring to BioNTech’s ‘BioNTainer’ production units in her own speech, President von der Leyen remarked: “It is amazing to think that in just two years, these BioNTainers will be producing up to 50 million of [sic.] doses of vaccines per year.”
But there is the rub. Fifty million doses of what vaccines? As just noted, the COVID-19 vaccine is BioNTech’s only product, and the COVID-19 pandemic is officially over. Alluding to the prior speech by BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, von der Leyen continued:
And we are not only speaking about battling the coronavirus. But it is about breaking new ground in the fight against, as you have said, Uğur, tuberculosis, malaria and potentially even cancer.
But there are not any authorised mRNA vaccines or drugs for the latter diseases, and millions of doses are not needed for clinical trials. How, then, will these production units be producing 50 million vaccine doses within two years?
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Rwanda. I heard that name somewhere else; perhaps the deportees (if there are any) will get jobs in the factory?
In answer to the question posed by the writer in his last paragraph, it’s self evident that ‘Fond o Lyin’ is more full of merde than a Christmas goose. She’s a talking head spouting what she’s been told to say.
Is that some scurrilous suggestion of corruption?
I’m shocked. Shocked, I say.
Given the fact that Africans – with good reason – are extremely suspicious of the miracle of modern western medicine, I wouldn’t be surprised if Africa told them to shove it.
Reminiscent of South Africa’s views on western cures for the AIDS “crisis”.
By the way, how’s the vaccine against HIV going Mr. Fauci et al.
Aids was a con, Hiv does not cause aids but poor lifestyles, IE over use of antibiotics and large doses of Amyl nitrate and deadly levels of Azt do. The narrative became that it was “managed” by administering non lethal doses of AZT.
Quite, that’s precisely why a vaccine against a virus which doesn’t “exist” (in the sense it causes AIDS) can ever in reality be made. Although they’ll keep trying of course…
Absolutely – AZT caused the ‘illness’ – the symptoms of AIDS or HIV infection was similar to Rona – covereing evthg from blowing your nose to death. Anyone and everyone was diagnosed with ‘AIDS’ – all to sell the drugs.
Fauci and Gallo (the criminal who ‘discovered’ the HIV ‘virus’ which does not exist) created a U$ 150 billion market….hmmm…I wonder what the motiviation might have been…so difficult to figure out…I better ask the ‘fact checkers’….or chatgpt….
But but Mark from EastEnders had it and didnt give it to his wife when they used a condom. The show went full narrative and claimed Azt had cured him of the death sentence. Laughable.
Here is evidence of Fauci in cahoots with the Chinese and the CCP inspired lockdowns, or rather the CCP inspired destruction of western economies. There are some extraordinary statements in this video from a Chinese ‘Professor’ who explains how natural immunity won’t work because it is inhumane and unscientific and no one can go back to normal until everyone has been vaccinated. Fauci nods along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb-JExoBhmU&t=248s
Fauci Follows ‘the Science’ | Kate Wand
Interesting also that the treatment, AZT, is permanent kemo therapy. Must be really good for the immune system to be on such a treatment permanently.
Quite and this Fauci’s first gift to mankind.
I’m simply in full admiration of how awake these ppl were whilst I swallowed this bs wholesale. I remember making smug ill educated about the South African president to my work colleagues in the noughties.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19sz3DocJ-Q kary Mullis on the AIDS scam. The person down voting please watch, I thought exactly as you did once.
Should be compulsory viewing for everyone.
So sad that he died before his time…..
Definitely unfortunate timing.
Very similar to the Eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. Doubtless any number deadly drugs will be thrust in to unsuspecting black ppl. Note the psychopath Ursula very involved also, she would literally murder her mother for the right price.
“the psychopath Ursula very involved also, she would literally murder her mother for the right price.”
I believe that comment is beyond dispute.
Another disgusting example of tax money being given to corporations by bureaucrats and politicians acting like entitled medieval lords.
That’s what taxes are for. To give power to the state which is then captured by corporations.
And when the tax money isn’t enough, they just borrow it or print it.
We live in a mad mad world. How there isn’t a revolution already is beyond me.
“How there isn’t a revolution already is beyond me.”
Bread and circuses I think.
Its at times like this that the high levels of endemic corruption and money-shuffling in many African states may actually be of significant benefit to the people who have, for decades now, been an unlicensed and unregulated test bed for all sorts of unlicensed and unregulated drugs (yes I’m looking at you, Gates and Fauci)….
However, I believe that potentially millions in Africa are earmarked for destruction via one of Billy’s new “pandemic vaccines.” He’s a philanthropist don’t ya know?
Whatever Biontech is planning to do there, it’s certainly something expected to benefit from ‘relaxed’ environmental and other standards when compared to the EU.
Here is a part transcript of a BBC interview of a Ugandan nurse back in July 2020. Nick Robinson is perplexed as to why Africa did not appear to be affected by the virus.
Nick Robinson (BBC): It’s not very long ago that we were told that the coronavirus pandemic could have a terrible impact on Africa, a continent that has suffered terribly from the effects of Ebola and AIDS, but so far it has not turned out that way. First the picture on the ground in Uganda. A country that has so far recorded no deaths from COVID-19. I’ve been speaking to a nurse in a General Hospital in the Rakai district of Uganda; Maria Nekalanda:
Maria: We really haven’t seen many patients of the symptoms of Covid. Like we have the measures in place, we do have the tests for outpatients that are coming in, but actually we have not recorded anyone.
Nick: So, is it turning out to be nothing like as scary as maybe you thought it would be a while ago?
Maria: Well, in the start we actually panicked. We were thinking, Oh my god, we are going to be the next dead people and it turned out that over time we stopped panicking and understood that probably this whole Covid situation is just not going to be as bad.
Nick: Are you saying that you’re no longer scared of COVID-19? And do you have all the protective equipment that you would want to have?
Maria: No, that’s actually a part of what stopped scaring us because for a greater part of the season we did not have protective gear. The health workers on the ground that are also handling general patients are not protected.
Nick: What about for the people who have this? You’ve seen people who get Ebola and how serious that is. How does Covid compare for them?
Maria: Comparing Covid to Ebola will be a kind of joke to the many Ugandans that have lived to see the impacts of Ebola, because people can deal with Covid 19 and they eat normally, they interact in communities, until probably they are found out and they are literally interacting with each other. That doesn’t happen with Ebola. Whilst there is an Ebola outbreak in the region pretection is at the very high pitch. People don’t keep running in at out of those particular areas. But for Covid you realise having Health Ministers come to places where Covid 19 is unchecked and Ebola is like 100 times worse.
Nick: Tell me about the lockdown in your area of Uganda or in Uganda as a whole if you like? What sort of lockdown is it and are people happy to go along with it or are they very frustrated?
Maria: People are actually frustrated because they have been financially affected. They’ve lost a lot in business. They are struggling to put bread on the table. They are like “well, you’re talking about a pandemic which I haven’t been able to go to work, why don’t you let me work?” So the whole lockdown situation is like a punishment.
Nick: Have you any theories why Covid is much less serious in Uganda than it seems to be in the UK for example?
Maria: I would think about the lifestyle. Ugandan’s they have probably access to more organic food. Lower cases of chronic illnesses like obesity. But um…we just think we have a bit of unexplained immunity to that disease. We are not dying just as bad.”
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The life expectancy in Uganda (and most of Africa) is about 60 and the life expectancy of most of the countries hit badly with C19 is about 80. The average age of death from this Flu type was/is about 82. Whose idea was it to lock up whole nations and especially those of productive age?
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director of the WHO at this time warned “no return to the old normal for the foreseeable future’ and “The virus remains Public Enemy No.1” and goes on about governments going in the wrong direction. He ended by saying “If the basics aren’t followed there is only one way the pandemic is going to go. It’s going to get worse and worse and worse and worse”.
There is no virus in history that does not peak and die out, unless this virus is not natural?
In addition, all the medicines and protocols that actually save children’s lives were severely disrupted or stopped and not a peep form Bill and his mates. Funny that.
Great post. Thanks
The Utter Utter Chuntery of these F- ckers is beyond belief !!! How about supplying a fresh water outlet so every person in Africa can get access to it ! B- stards!!!!
Just another money laundering exercise in full view of the plebs…
As reported in DS 2 days ago by Mikko Paunio, what Africa needs is investment in improved nutrition, hygiene, access to clean drinking water, sanitation and education. Instead we get the likes of Bill Gates and now the EU pumping billions into dubious vaccine delivery. This vast amount of money could solve most of Africa’s health & development problems if properly invested in real healthcare. It is obvious that this investment has nothing to do with healthcare and everything to do with using public funds to make profit for the elite & their companies.