War spurs medical innovation. Ambulances to swiftly deliver the casualties of Napoleon’s armies to field surgeons were the brainchild of Jean-Dominique Larrey. Florence Nightingale established professional nursing in the Crimea. The Kaiser’s War brought the Thomas Splint, reducing mortality and amputation following limb fracture; 1939-45 spurred Florey and Chain’s development of penicillin and McIndoe’s reconstructive plastic surgery. All are now integral to civilian healthcare.
mRNA vaccines are offspring of George Bush’s ‘War on Terror’.
The idea of mRNA vaccines goes back to Robert Malone’s discoveries of the late 1980s, but he was unable to pursue them and the patents passed to Merck, who spent the end of the old century expensively failing to develop a product. The idea might have remained in abeyance had it not been for 9/11 and the curious episode, immediately afterwards, when letters laced with anthrax spores were posted – allegedly by a disaffected U.S. Army scientist – to Senators and media outlets, killing five people and infecting 17 more.
A world already shaken by planes-turned-to-missiles awoke to bioterrorism. With modern molecular biology it isn’t hard for a disaffected PhD student to insert genes for virulence or antibiotic resistance into a pathogen; it’s a lot easier than building a nuclear bomb in your backyard. The bigger barriers are obtaining the pathogen in the first place and finding an effective distribution system. As then-Director of the Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory at the Public Health Laboratory Service (UKHSA’s major predecessor) I wrote advice on which antibiotic to consider if some ‘bad actor’ modified anthrax or plague. My counterparts at Porton Down were more deeply involved.
Concerns extended to viruses. In 2018 a pharmaceutical company – seeking new smallpox vaccines – re-created the extinct horsepox virus using DNA chemistry alone. Given the right conditions, the reborn virus infected tissue culture, replicating itself. The potential to recreate smallpox became all too apparent. Many of us believe that the COVID-19 pandemic began with the escape of a virus manipulated by collaborating U.S. and Chinese scientists.
The U.S. response has been to lavishly fund its Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Please don’t ask me how these interact and divide responsibilities; I never did understand. But they passed money to anyone with plausible product. By 2011, I’d moved to UEA and was consulting on antibiotic development for biotechs. We’d always review whether their prospective drug might cover some bioterrorism agent. If so, there was a chance of biodefence money.
DARPA alighted upon mRNA vaccines. Their beauty was that, if you sorted delivery, mRNA instability and toxicity, then you could adapt them for any pathogen. Think of the mRNA vaccine as a missile (lipid nanoparticle and mRNA modification to give stability) and payload (specific mRNA encoding the antigen). Once you have the missile you can fill it with an armour-piercing payload, or a high explosive, or shrapnel, gas or nuclear. Likewise with mRNA, different strands of mRNA cause the vaccinee to make different proteins, which elicits (in theory) the desired immune response. Bingo.
mRNA technology allows swift adaptation in a world of diverse threats. Making a conventional vaccine requires you to grow the virus and then kill it or develop an attenuated variant that induces immunity but not the disease. In the latter case, you must ensure that your attenuated virus can’t revert to virulence, as has happened with some polio vaccines. Alternatively, you can purify a viral component and use that as the antigen, perhaps conjugated to a carrier to increase immunogenicity. That is laborious compared with just swapping an mRNA payload. What’s more, mRNA vaccines, giving prolonged antigen synthesis, might better resemble natural infection than a single shot of an inert protein conjugate.
DARPA funded mRNA vaccine research at pharmaceutical majors. But none pursued it. According to a DARPA spokesman: “They were reticent about taking on any risk with a new regulatory pathway for vaccines, even though the data looked good.” The technology passed to Moderna and BioNTech, start-ups without marketed products.
It was their vaccines – hurriedly given Emergency Use Authorisation under classical vaccine rules, not the anticipated ‘new regulatory pathway’ – that became the backbone of the West’s Covid response. Some see a grand military-industrial conspiracy. Others, like me, think it was just a consequence of: (i) competing DNA vector vaccines – AZ and J&J – being less effective in early trials and becoming associated with blood clots; (ii) killed virus and protein component vaccines coming much later; and (iii) competing non-mRNA vaccines not being updated (however spuriously) as the pandemic continued.
The big three vaccine companies – GSK, Merck and Sanofi – were not big players in the Covid vaccine business. GSK and Sanofi collaborated but abandoned their initial product after disappointing Phase I/II results; much later they developed a protein vaccine but, by then, the bottom was falling out of the market. Merck sold a major equity interest in Moderna on December 2nd 2020, one day after the latter reported “94% efficacy” for its vaccine in Phase III. The shares, at $143, were up seven-fold on the purchase price, but it was early to sell, with profits expected to flow. In August 2021 they hit $480. You might think that Merck wanted ‘Out, and fast’.
The vaccine majors retain an interest in mRNA: Merck is co-developing a skin cancer vaccine with Moderna and has an mRNA flu vaccine for pigs. But their big commitments lie with conventional vaccines. The folks who are betting big on mRNA are our Governments. The U.K., Canada and Australia have each put around £1 billion of taxpayers’ money into mRNA vaccine plants, to be developed by Moderna.
Is this wise?
There are differing opinions of the recent mRNA Covid vaccines. The official view, heard less and less, is that they saved 20 million lives. At the other extreme, some believe that they failed completely and are the major driver of ongoing excess deaths. Others, like me, believe that they did some good in 2021 but then were recklessly overused in low-risk groups and as untrialled multi-booster regimens, causing harm without further benefit. All these viewpoints remain defensible.
What’s not defensible is any assertion that mRNA vaccines stopped viral circulation, gave long-term protection or are as safe as, say, traditional inactivated-virus flu vaccines. The failure to protect is evident to everyone from personal experience, and the vast excess of VAERS and Yellow Card reports for Covid vaccines evidences the safety issue. This is far from the clear-cut success of many conventional vaccines, for example against smallpox, polio, diphtheria, measles, tetanus and Haemophilus b meningitis.
There is an urgent need to understand where the problems lie. In the missile or the payload? Is the spike protein inherently toxic, leading to cardiac damage? Are induced bloodstream antibodies in the wrong place to abort infection in the upper airways? Have coronaviruses evolved so that you can’t achieve lasting immunity however you try? Those would be payload problems, irrelevant to a different target. Or is the whole strategy flawed because lipid nanoparticles cause prolonged antigen production in tissues that the target viruses would never reach? Does harm arise from replacing uridine with pseudouridine in the mRNA, giving a persistent product? Such problems might require a total rethink of the missile.
Which brings us back to Moderna’s share price, down from $104 to $85.60 over the past fortnight owing to disappointing results on a developmental mRNA respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine. RSV causes some mortality at the extremes of life and bounced back strongly after the end of the Covid lockdowns. Most (97%) RSV infant deaths occur in low-income countries. In adults, Moderna’s mRNA vaccine gave 84% protection against symptomatic infection to 3.3 months but only 63% to 8.6 months. Conjugate RSV vaccines already marketed by GSK and Pfizer performed better, with the former’s product still giving 77% protection to 14 months. Comparison is complicated owing to differences in trial design and end-points, but it’s hard to dispute the market’s conclusion that the mRNA product has an uphill battle.
Unless and until manufactures can show that, with the right payload, mRNA vaccines are as safe and effective as traditional vaccines against the same pathogen, governments really should be more careful about ‘investing’ our money. God knows, they’ve blown enough of it already, these past four years.
Dr. David Livermore is a retired Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of East Anglia.
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“Pharmaceutical Companies are Abandoning mRNA Vaccines”
After a global Human clinical trial contrary to International Conventions on medical experimentation on Humans, slaughtering and maiming many millions with no benefit just harm, and making £billions without liability, time to cut and run. I wonder why?
“Have coronaviruses evolved so that you can’t achieve lasting immunity however you try? “
Didn’t we once know this prior to March 2020? Wasn’t that the conclusion – along with other respiratory viruses – of 50 years work at the Common Cold Research Unit (where they were the first to identify Human coronaviruses)?
Yes, indeed. And it was the knowledge that there was still on vaccine for the common cold led me to research, on hearing of the plans for a Covid shot produced at high speed, to research medical papers on previous failed attempts at Coronavirus shots. What I learnt – in essence that all had failed at the animal testing phase, when all test animals die after being infected, post jab, with whatever CV virus, of Antibody Dependent Enhancement.
That, Pfizer, and the fact that I’m a very healthy old bloke, who if he gets a cold, it’s a snuffle every four or five years (apart from the stinker I got a month after lockdown – wonder why?!), Covid held no fear for me. I might be immune already, and if I got it, I’d be immune after.
We know of nobody in our circle of friends who died from Covid. Indeed, just ONE i gather in our local area, a circle of about five miles radius. Neighbour died of a gastric haemorrhage a few days after a booster, and the lovely daughter of another neighbour came down with THREE auto-immune conditions, a flesh eating bacteria and hair loss (she had a SPECTACULAR head of hair, bless her). GP admitted it was the jab. Mostly cleared up though she is still on medication.
No way was I taking part in a mass medical experiment.
I had what, with hindsight, was probably Covid in Nov ’19. I was a slim, v fit and healthy woman in her early 60s. I felt pretty rough for about 3 days, but not so ill I couldn’t dose myself up with paracetamol and go to work … as you did! The cough lasted 3 weeks and was treated with whisky before bed
When news of the novel coronavirus started circulating, I “picked up” messages from my usual non-MSM sources of information that it had probably been created in a Chinese lab and started looking for more information. It was out there if you looked. Prof Bhakdi – together with my re-triggered needle phobia – stopped me from participating in the mass medical experiment. God Bless him.
Indeed. We stumbled across “!Corona, False Alarm?” and got a copy. Further proof we were to be suckered.
Interesting, but too generous by far to the vaccine companies.
“They saved 20 million lives ……. All these viewpoints remain defensible”.
Unless I have missed something huge, there isn’t the slightest bit of hard evidence to support this. Not a shred. It was just an expression of hope from State PR agencies like the BBC.
Instead the figure reveal massive increases in all-cause mortality, wherever and whenever the ‘vax’ was used. And that before dislook at the Yellow Card and VAERS reports.
If you want to have an objective view on vaccines, read ‘Turtles all the way down’ which was written a couple of years before the Covid scamdemic. This shows how captured the industry had/and has become and how morbidities have skyrocketed since the 60s & 70s.
More vaccines means more profits, but not more health.
I think Dr Livermore means that the viewpoints other than the official view remain defensible. At least, I hope so.
A thing that strikes me is that we see analyses that assert high levels of cardiac and other problems or that demonstrate that the young where at little risk from the bug. What we don’t see is anyone offering an analysis and showing their working that supports ’20m lives saved’… or maybe I don’t read the right publications to see that sort of thing.
I stopped reading at:
“Others, like me, believe that they did some good in 2021 but then were recklessly overused in low-risk groups and as untrialled multi-booster regimens, causing harm without further benefit”
If the author is this clueless he has nothing to say.
Oh, and that bit too, yes indeed. What good in 2021? Where’s the proof?
“All these viewpoints remain defensible” was the only bit that caused an upward movement in my eyebrow too. (In my case, the left eyebrow.)
On the sceptical side, there are those that maintain the whole of virology is a fraud, e.g. https://expose-news.com/2024/01/21/virology-is-a-fraudulent-pseudoscience-and-is-a-dying-field-according-to-biomedical-scientist/.
This recent posting from The Expose was fascinating reading, pointing out that multiple medical doctors had ‘poisoned’ themselves with diphtheria, cholera, typhus bacilli and the like, to no detrimental effect: https://expose-news.com/2024/02/12/the-infectious-myth-busted-the-germ-duel/. This aligns itself with the Terrain v. Germ theory and, assuming the report is true, is fascinating in pointing out that the bacteria we identify with diseases are the result of the disease and not its instigator.
Finally, this report questions the use of any vaccine, pointing out that particularly the various adjutants are pure poison: https://expose-news.com/2023/12/04/the-doctor-that-sacrificed-his-career-his-reputation-and-ultimately-his-life/.
One thing I have learned from the so-called pandemic: I will never take any vaccine ever again.
Flying viruses don’t exist.
Bacteria do exist and they don’t fly and they don’t survive outside a host.
Bechamp challenged Pasteur to prove the flying germ theory. No proof over 160 years has been forthcoming.
You are to believe that dead viral material flies miles, lasts trillions of darwinian years, magically gets into your body, takes over a cell, destroys your genetic material and replicates….
And in related news, aliens are real, Chewy, Hans and the boys are zooming around saving the universe, and Einstein was a scientist.
I think autocorrect got you on the penultimate paragraph. Adjuvant?
Or a virus got to my brain! Thank you!
I’m going one better I’m steering clear of my GP surgery and using more and more alternative health solutions now that I know they are nothing more than Big Pharma agents.
https://miri.substack.com/p/hack-in-the-ussr
A cracking long essay from Miri on the multi-faceted means of destruction being deployed against us. Immigration, lies, deceit, propoganda, MSM all get a look in.
Excellent work.
Just thinking further on this essay from Miri.
Why was the subject of conscription raised recently? I do not believe it is because we face an imminent guns and bullets war, far from it. This was simply an exercise to determine the state of defeat of the population in general, a gauging of moral, a crude assessment…
…”hands up all those in favour.”
…” all those against.”
A report back to Fishy – ” nobody’s up for feighting Prime Minister.”
Marvellous. I’ll let Herr Klaus know.
The farmers protests might have confused the issue somewhat but the country needs to get behind them.
Except everyone who said they wouldn’t fight Russia in a corporate war are the exact people who would fight the globalists or whatever you want to call them. If it was a.measure of anything, it measured how fed up the native men are.
The farmers protests & the support your local farmer/farmer’s market are things that the masses can & are getting behind as it’s tangible & directly affects them – the food on their plate.
In rural communities the support for our local farmers is becoming even stronger & alternatives to supermarkets are gaining customers.
Yes they cost more but the satisfaction of knowing that all the profit goes directly to the farmer/producer & that how they farm is scrutinised before the purchase is made keeps the farmers honest is huge.
I ordered half a lamb on Tuesday, it will be selected today, slaughtered & butchered tomorrow before being delivered to my kitchen door tomorrow teatime. Superb service & delicious meat.
This article by Midwestern Doctor related to the WHO treaty is also pretty compelling.
There are roughly 38 trillion cells in the human body. They all interact and arguably have whole cell intelligence ie each acts independantly of the “brain”. Or maybe not.
Most of the cells carry out 70,000 molecular operations every 24 hours.
How the body actually works, and particularly the immune systems are totally beyond any human or AI undestanding. We know virtually nothing of what there is to know.
Sadly Pasteur triumphed over Bechamp. “Kill the pathogen and or harness the bodies natural defences” ie vaccines and now modified RNA gene therapies rule the day in medicine.
This inevitably gave birth to bigpharma. An incredibly rich, powerful and unregulated industry whose tentacles spread far and wide.
Governments and the MSM duly captured.
Sadly the only way out of this is for excess deaths and chronic illnesses to surge even higher so that even the independent, lol, ONS and politicians can’t twist the figures.
The mRNA jabbs trash the immune system. There are lots of papers showing how and why this happens. Sadly a lot of the harms were known over a decade ago.
And yet we have jabbed billions.
For an insight into further possible harms, biomolecular scientists/genetic engineers might be interested in looking at this – (in a nutshell it postulates a time bomb of nasty effects caused by “rogue/unintended proteins being produced by the body due to it having to obey the instructions of modifiedRNA) –
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0033
A lot of it is based on computer modelling so it might appeal to many SAGE members!
I note the author says he hopes that mRNA jabs can become as safe as traditonal jabs.
I would direct anyone interested to a site – vaccinepapers.org – but this has been taken down, for the second time in four years, It may be available via the Wayback machine.
One can though read “Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccine Studies” for a similar critique.
The only good thig to come out of the covid debacle is an ever increasind distrust of ALL vaccines.
The headline is slightly misleading, IMHO. Govts have been stiffed on the covid MRNA vaccine, but MRNA platform development in general is continuing to be ramped up worldwide: from pharma-funded facilities in sub-saharan Africa, to Japan greenlighting 100 day MRNA jabs, to ‘continuous production’ facilities in the US (and, I think, the UK). Make no mistake: they’ve seen the genocidal potential in this lethal bioweapon and they will do all they can to refine it and get it into as many arms as possible over the coming years. And make a sh*t ton of money in the process.
https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-researchers-lead-new-center-mrna-manufacturing-0713
“All of these companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars into mRNA, not because of Covid, but because of mRNA’s future potential in all these other disease areas,” says Richard Braatz, the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering and the principal investigator for the project. “If we can drive the cost and time of development down, we’ll enable all sorts of new applications.”
Ultimately it doesn’t matter. They extracted the money and we are all paying the price. Quite a good scam in terms of a convinving method of robbing the masses blind for decades to come. Can’t beat a bit of fear You also can’t beat the military-industrial complex business model just look at the cost overruns that don’t seem to matter the bixarre perverse incentice to wage war that doesn’t seem to matter. It is the last stage of a feeding frenzy. Orson Welles spoke about it to Rita Hayworth in a famous scene in The Lady Of Shanghai. How sharks, attracted by blood are drawn to an area. They start by attacking other creatures so that their bloodlust rises. Eventually they start attacking each other. Finally they are so frenzied that they bite at their own innards until they bleed to death.
I mean they were building hospitals and then it suddenly collapsed. It was called Carillion. No oversight no further questions just the taxpayer tens of billions of pounds worse off for some mysterious reason. They really will rob you blind if you let them get away with it and it is late in the game. Every year it will be nastier and they will use more controlling technques. There is a simple question – you are and have been drastically impinging on my quality of life, are you going to cease and desist? The answer is no so you better contemplate what to do about it.
Be prepared. If you are struggling now financially just wait a few more months. I know they talk about bringing down inflation that isn’t going to happen quite the contrary. The cheap and easy oil from the Middle East and northern Africa will dry up completely. Russia is out of bounds. In economic terms you need to be prepared for that. Next winter we will no longer be a part of ‘the golden billion’. A lot of people will snuff it but without stark relief we just carry on in lives of quiet desperation. No happy ending, no antidote to the mass death but it is still wthin us to forge another path.
The vaccine majors retain an interest in mRNA: Merck is co-developing a skin cancer vaccine with Moderna and has an mRNA flu vaccine for pigs. But their big commitments lie with conventional vaccines.
I am worried about the animal vaccines as they are under the radar so to speak. We know not to have the jabs ourselves but if they are being forced upon farmers how are we to know?
Incidentally China was supposed to have suffered a “swine flu” epidemic in 2019 and yet that is hardly spoken of? It appears that small farmers in China were forced to give up their livestock and large scale pig farming took off…
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is like bond villains efforts. toby and all can you investigate thank you!
A new class of “encrypted RNA” vaccines are being developed where the RNA would piggyback onto an existing wild virus and spread from person to person without any person’s knowledge or consent.
I spoke to one lad today who said that his dad had 8 strokes after taking the jab and now his dad is so messed up that he has had to give up work to look after him. This is not an uncommon story. Are you really going to just let that go? They knew the damage that they would do and they did it anyway. If you let a force get away with that then you are ripe for extermination.
Here are a couple of articles by Dr Guy Hatchard who writes a blog in New Zealand on the covid pandemic response and the serious implications to human health from novel mRNA gene therapy technology that scientists developed to supposedly protect us from a serious respiratory illness with an IFR no worse than seasonal flu.
What is clear to me is these scientists don’t really know what they doing. They are manipulating the fundamentals of human biology thinking that a snip here and a tuck here has no more consequence than trying to fit a piece from a jigsaw puzzle into the wrong place where it doesn’t belong. There are huge, generational implications with this tinkering with our genetic makeup. It has to stop. Humanity itself is at risk.
https://hatchardreport.com/the-network-of-denial-and-the-trail-of-deceit-in-new-zealand/
https://hatchardreport.com/why-do-we-ask-the-same-questions-again-and-again/
A Substack well worth subscribing to…
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-we-can-stop-the-whos-horrific
Long articles; I print them off and read them of an evening. He’s fully on the ball on what has been done to us.
A few months ago I read Sunak was investing in mRNA factories in Oxford (I think) did anyone else read that? If so this looks like going the same route as electric cars. Can we throw these useless money-wasting political eunuchs out of office! The money that has been wasted by the CONservative government since they’ve been in office is frankly criminal. BTW This doesn’t mean I think Starmer is the answer but I am sure his appointment as PM will be of a brief duration in which time the CONs may have discovered some functioning braincells and begin to use them.
Small error of fact; modern plastic surgery developed in WW1 under Sir Harold Gillies. McIndoe only entered the field by accident in the late 1920s, and as a favour from Gillies, and most of his work was derivative. The two worked together until, as Gillies put it, the tail started wagging the dog, and while McIndoe’s work on burned airmen captured the public imagination, Gilles’ WW2 group at Rooksdown Hospital actually saw more burns cases. For more detail see my book “Faces from the Front ” (Helion, 2017).