When the pharma and Government complex created the influenza market with the help of the usual modellers, they produced the requirement for an antiviral stockpile. They went about this by creating the Bird F-word (flu) feardemic (remember that?) in 2005-2006. As Influenza H5N1, the ‘bird flu’ agent, seemed to be active in Southeast Asia, they asked how an outbreak could be contained swiftly to give time for vaccines to be produced (six to nine months at the time).
The answer was the miraculous locally available antivirals in large quantities which could be deployed rapidly to douse transmission. In an earlier article we reported how modellers’ predictions that you could prevent an outbreak by ‘zapping’ the infection within a circumscribed area, so long as drug supplies could be available locally or reasonably quickly. This meant creating stockpiles of antivirals. Once the stockpiles were in place, the strategy was to use them while you waited for the wild virus to be isolated and for vaccines to be produced in a reasonable timeframe.
This was a neat strategy for ensuring stockpiling. It was widely accepted it would take some time to manufacture an effective vaccine. For example, the 2005 U.S. Homeland Security’s ‘Pandemic Influenza, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide‘ reported it would “take [six to nine] months before a vaccine will be widely available” once the strain had been identified.
In the antivirals series we have shown all these assumptions to be bogus. Models were, well, models, there was no evidence that either Tamiflu or Relenza could interfere with influenza transmission, while the vaccines, when the 2009 pandemic was called, arrived too late to influence anything. The pandemic was any way too mild for the Government-pharmaceutical complex to stick its neck out.
In other words, they took away the lesson that fear needed to be ramped up to get people to comply. However, the modellers’ construct would have made some sense if the risk of a deadly disease was confirmed and the antivirals did what they said on the tin. H5N1 caused some deaths, but these were context-specific and transmission from bird to human and human to human was weak.
In a recent article, we reported how the U.K. will have lost nearly £1.2 billion in two and half years on stockpiling unused antivirals.
We can’t understand the rationale for purchasing the December 2021 antiviral stockpile. Can you? If the stockpilers consider the vaccines prevent severe disease, what is the purpose of stockpiling mass quantities of antivirals?
Faster clearance and shorter times to viral elimination are similar claims made for Tamiflu, but this isn’t the same as evidence of a reduction in person-to-person transmission. The effectiveness in preventing transmission is further weakened by the evidence that shows one out of five people experience rebound Covid after taking an antiviral drug. Furthermore, RCT evidence shows Molnupiravir did not reduce Covid-associated hospitalisations or death among high-risk vaccinated adults in the community.
So – we ask – what is the rationale for stockpiling mass quantities of Covid antivirals?
Prof. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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Lining the pockets of big pharma.
This hopeless incompetence, public money squandered across the board, arrogant, sneering public sector employees, cost of living stratospheric, infrastructure dreadful, is redolent of 1978: British Rail, British Telecom, British Leyland etc etc
And the next government’s vision is to do even more of that all over again.
For heaven’s sake, at least waste the money on happy pills.
You mean more midazolam? They thought of that.
Worse than incompetence
It was imo to distract from the likelihood that cheap and safe drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin would have been much more effective and thoroughly scotched any possible pretence that there was a public health emergency that required among other things toxic untested drugs to be forced on people
Wicked
Wicked certainly but Raine’s MHRA acted in lockstep with EMA and the US in granting EUA to these mRNA toxins – that is illegal given the existence and efficacy of IVM/HDCQ and others – why has she not been arrested (rhet)
– largely because the “ competent authority “ is just as guilty ….. turkeys and Xmas
The more guilty people there are the less likely anyone is to be punished
Financial management. A basic profit, with a potential bonus into the future, perhaps.
If the tax-and-waste tories are this profligate with our money then I dread to think what labour will do when it gets it’s grubby hands on our dosh. The only good thing about this story is all the lives saved by NOT taking these pills.
They didn’t waste our money. They stole it.
And to disguise the crime, they bought a few crappy pills.
Keeping us all safe, you know.
Those things are nasty you should look at how they work. This is another one of these technologies where the anchoring has completely disappeared and we live in a time where more and more monstrosities will be produced unless we find the remedy. The whole paradigm is becoming a foreign language spoken by malevolent aliens to me. They are in a cul-de sac, they don’t really know they are and yet their energy suggests that they do know and yet the new cannot be born and so to paraphrase Gramsci, all sorts of morbid symptoms appear.
Every billion they speak of just means declining conditions for us, an imporovement of the siphoning mechanism.
The mountains of tablets will pile up.In the end the doctors and pharmacists will say ‘what me guv? I don’t know I was on your side all along!’. No you weren’t you commited a despicable act perhaps the most despicable act in the history of humanity and you will pay for it
There isn’t realy a good detox. The best you will find is nattokinase. It is very cheap and it destroys the spike protein. It has other benefits – I was developing a varicose vain in my leg and it disappeared after a few weeks, You can easily look it up it is very powerrful in terms of remedyng arterial sclerosis. You would think that in our time it would be widely understood and available. If you are already taking aspirin for blood-thinning purposes following a stent etc then I would advise caution and a complete appraisal.
Money. Transfer of money from “the little people” to Big Pharma.
The Government’s latest wheeze is to get sick people to go to the Pharmacist for treatment with certain conditions, rather than their GP.
Show me a Pharmacist who ISN’T “in business” and out to make money from his/her customers?
“Oh no, Mrs Blogs, you don’t need a prescription for that. Just buy a tube of this wonder cream and it’ll be fixed in no time. And if you need another tube, come back and see me again :)” But Rishi would know all about that ….. his Mum was a Pharmacist, don’cha know.