One of the many important and untold stories of the COVID-19 response involves, not surprisingly, the German company BioNTech: the unsung hero or villain, depending on one’s perspective, of the response. As at least my readers will know, BioNTech is the actual developer, owner and legal manufacturer of what is more commonly and misleadingly known as the ‘Pfizer’ COVID-19 vaccine. It is also the authorisation holder for almost all markets, including the EU, the U.K. and the U.S. But circa 2020, the legal manufacturer of the drug had a big problem: having never previously brought any product to market, it did not have any manufacturing facilities.
BioNTech had only ever produced batches for small-scale clinical trials. This helps to explain the company’s need for Pfizer’s help and, above all, infrastructure. But BioNTech was not about to let Pfizer steal its thunder. The company wanted to be not only the legal manufacturer but, at least in the EU, also a physical manufacturer in its own right of the mRNA serving as the active drug substance. Pfizer could do ‘fill and finish’ at its production facilities in Belgium.
But to this end, BioNTech needed a factory.
The problem was solved by its purchase from Novartis of the somewhat infamous Behringwerke or ‘Behring Works’ in Marburg. Not only was the facility the site of the eponymous Marburg virus outbreak in 1967, but during the Second World War, as a subsidiary of the IG Farben chemical trust, it had been used to manufacture experimental vaccines for testing on concentration camp inmates at Buchenwald. This human experimentation was at the very heart of the Nuremberg ‘Doctors’ Trial’, as can be seen here.
On September 15th 2020, the German Government announced that it was providing BioNTech a €375 million grant to support its COVID-19 vaccine project. Just two days later, the company announced that it would be purchasing the Behring Works to manufacture the mRNA for its COVID-19 vaccine “pending regulatory authorisation or approval”.
On April 1st 2021, the great day had arrived and then-Health Minister Jens Spahn would be (virtually) on hand, connecting remotely from Berlin, to celebrate the inauguration of mRNA-production at BioNTech’s new facility: the refitted Behring Works in Marburg. As touched upon in my last article, Spahn expressed the hope that BioNTech’s success would be just the starting point for turning Germany as a whole into a global “mRNA hub”.
“Invented in Germany, made in Germany… That makes us proud,” Spahn said with an awkwardly cheeky grin, and he marvelled at the incredible speed with which BioNTech was able to bring production on-line at the facility. “Beginning of October…”, he said, before quickly correcting himself, “Beginning of November: acquisition of the plant – handing-over of the keys, so to say – and then end of March, actual start of production….”
But whether beginning of October or beginning of November 2020, the described timeline raises the same troubling question: How was BioNTech able to complete acquisition of the facility so early? The BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was only authorised for use by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on December 21st (10 days after first receiving emergency authorisation from the American FDA).
How did BioNTech or its state sponsor, the German Government, know in advance that the drug would be approved?
Could this be still further proof of the veracity of the words of Klaus Cichutek, the former President of the German medicines agency, the PEI, when he cockily told a German pharma industry association that “We are the EMA”?
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1.-Gene tec/CRISPR goes back 30 years.
2.-Bigpharma took careful note realising it presented a gloriously cheap and effective business opportunity.
3.-Unfortunately there were well documented side effects of the tec, even at that time,mainly because the pesky immune system didn’t particularly tolerate being messed with.
4.-It sat on the shelf until a suitably scary viral pandemic that could only be cured by gene therapy, sorry, mass vaccination, arose.
5.-Appropriate patents were filed – BEFORE said pandemic.
6.-Once the Western world was under the spell of fear, release said miracle snake oil, sorry, cure.
7.-Sit back and relax.secure in the knowledge that the ever reaching tentacles of bigpharma and the already captured MSM would take care of all totally unwarranted warnings of danger.
All revealed by Dr. David Martin and others over 4 years ago.
According to David Martin, there’s a patent for a key DNA sequence of Sars Cov 2 held by (Moderna?) which dates from the early 2000s.
I don’t know how valid his claims are but he’s pretty vocal on the subject and appears to have proof.
https://totalityofevidence.com/dr-david-martin/
How could Pharaceutical companies be researching mRNA vaccines against Covid and creating patents for years before the virus “escaped?”
But they did, as Reiner Fullmich (American/German lawyer) proved.
Is Reiner Fullmich still being held in jail? what has happened to the case he was building? does anyone know?
Yes, still in jail. This is the latest I could find. Two week break in criminal proceedings due to Easter.
https://rumble.com/v4lyi3i-reiner-fuellmich-update-from-prison-in-germany-march-2024.html
Here’s a more recent update from a substack which is following the case.
Supposedly there are some legal shenanigans in play and Reiner is going for the jugular. I’ve just skimmed the article and don’t quite understand the details.
https://truthsummit.substack.com/p/update-reiner-fuellmich-april-5-2024
Looks like they were betting on the horses, supported by a public grant. So they grabbed hold of the opportunity of the so-called ‘pandemic’ declared by those who may or may not have financial interests in the company concerned.
No doubt there are other pharmaceutical companies that don’t like how it worked out, so we’ll see what happens later on.
This looks like a big story: the competition between Germany (BioNTech) and the U.S. (Moderna) to get the first mRNA vaccine out.
‘I appeared at a press conference at Davos on 23 January 2020 with Richard Hatchett, the head of CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) and a White House adviser during the HlNl outbreak of 2009; and Stephane Bancel, the now superstar head of biotech company Moderna.
Stephane was already working with CEPI on other vaccines and only that week had inked an agreement with Richard to start work on a coronavirus vaccine……Just before the press conference, Singapore announced its first case of the ‘Wuhan virus’…….I was asked to speak first. I was in the spotlight. The truth could not be sugar-coated. ‘We are about six weeks into this outbreak and this virus can now clearly spread between humans,’ I told the audience, explaining it could be passed on like influenza, through coughing and sneezing.
‘It is not SARS. The virus is in a similar family as SARS but this looks different … and the difference is probably it is easier to pass between human beings. I think we can expect many more cases in China and many more cases in other parts of the world.’
…….It is strange to watch the press conference now, to see how little attention anyone paid to Stephane. Nobody in the audience asked him a single question.
His company had quietly picked up the genetic sequence more than a week earlier, on 13 January 2020, and had already begun prepping to produce a prototype messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine.
This is completely new technology: it injects mRNA, a set of genetic instructions for building a bit of the target virus, so that the body’s own cells can make the viral protein in-house, to stimulate an immune response.
This technology platform, as we have since learned, has the potential to go much faster than conventional vaccine production.
Stephane urgently needed cash, he had told Richard a few days before Davos, to turn Moderna’s baby steps on this new coronavirus into phase 1 trials. In the end, there were just three days between Stephane’s pitch and Richard’s sign-off. The tie-up was being announced at the press conference’
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/21180503/INQ000208834.pdf
Panic meant money, and panic is what Farrar (now Chief Scientist on a handsome stipend at the W.H.O.) induced (deliberately?) at this Davos press conference.
Greed did the rest.
They were only just in time to start off the gravy train.
So many of us picked up on the reality only a couple of weeks later:
‘People are saying a 2.2 to 2.4% fatality rate total. However recent information is very worthy – if you look at the cases outside of China the mortality rate is <1%. [Only 2 fatalities outside of mainland China].
2 potential reasons 1) either china’s healthcare isn’t as good – that’s probably not the case 2) What is probably right is that just as with SARS there’s probably much stricter guidelines in mainland China for a case to be considered positive.
So the 20,000 cases in China is probably only the severe cases; the folks that actually went to the hospital and got tested.
The Chinese healthcare system is very overwhelmed with all the tests going through.
So my thinking is this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested. The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%.
There’s a vast under-reporting of cases in China.
Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold.
Basically this is a severe form of the cold.’
Prof John Nicholls, University of Hong Kong 06 Feb. 2020
Without the silliness that is Davos, perhaps the entire global debacle of the blundering ‘pandemic’ response could have been avoided….but then so many venal and duplicitous individuals, conspiratorial in their mendacity, could not have trousered the billions of dollars given to them by the rest of us via a bunch of dim and incompetent politicians, functionaries……
A few years ago, I came across a gadget made in Oxford that assessed risk levels in various groups. The figures it came up with is in line with those that you mention – pretty low compared with the BS that was being spewed out at the time.
At some point in 2020 I did a simple calculation based on my age and all cause mortality to assess what additional risk “covid” posed over and above my background risk of dying. It was a number so small that it wasn’t worth worrying about. And of course any increase in all cause mortality was not necessarily due to “covid” but may have been due to lockdowns, the care home debacle, incorrect treatment protocols, healthcare shutting down or simply annual fluctuation.
I’m a long time follower of the climate blog “What’s Up With That”. They crunched the Diamond Express figures which persuaded me in March 2020 that IFR were far lower than hyped. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/16/diamond-princess-mysteries/
The media will follow the hype, or something along those lines.
We all knew.
We know that the Gates Foundation visited Downing Street to tell them that the way out of the “pandemic” was vaccination. And that was in March 2020. No doubt they blitzed all major governments.
By the summer of 2020 every country was committed to the vaccine exit strategy.
The masking by that point was widespread and was the instrument of torture that made sure everyone accepted the “solution” when it came.
By the autumn of 2020 everyone knew that a “vaccine” would be produced and approved.
The key dates appear to have been:
03 March Government ‘epidemic’ mitigation strategy published
13 March Strategy implementation plan drawn up
Cummings whiteboard gives us this information:
‘Some key names of people involved were listed at the top of the whiteboard. Among them were Mr Johnson, chief scientific and medical advisers Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty, Mr Cummings, and Ben Warner, a data scientist brought in from the Vote Leave campaign.
On 13 March, some of them met to draw up a plan.
The “plan” referred to here is presumably the government’s strategy published on 3 March, to “contain”, “delay” and then “mitigate” the epidemic. Focusing on hand hygiene and isolating people with symptoms, it only advised social distancing if the virus became “established”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57254654
Do you know on what date, March 2020, the Gates Foundation visited Downing St., may I ask?
Was it before this?
‘The race to find a vaccine for coronavirus will be boosted by £210 million of new UK aid funding, the Prime Minister announced today (26th March) following a virtual summit of G20 leaders.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-record-funding-to-find-a-coronavirus-vaccine
I don’t know the exact date. I distinctly remember reading it was in March because I remember thinking how quickly they moved and how obvious it was that Gates was deeply involved in all the major policies. (He also appeared on US National TV heavily promoting lockdowns. The bastard’s fingerprints are everywhere). But I can’t remember the date.
From Cummings Substack
“This is why there was no serious vaccine plan — i.e spending billions on concurrent (rather than the normal sequential) creation/manufacturing/distribution etc — until after the switch to Plan B. I spoke to Vallance on 15 March about a ‘Manhattan Project’ for vaccines out of Hancock’s grip but it was delayed by the chaotic shift from Plan A to lockdown then the PM’s near-death. “
The PM on Hancock: ‘totally fucking hopeless’ (substack.com)
It was obvious from the start that the only exit strategy was a “vaccine”. To be clear, I am not implying that TPTB actually believed there was something “real” to exit from (other than the fake pandemic they had created in people’s minds) or that the “vaccines” were believed or intended to “save lives” – IMO it was all theatre.
Then they did the Oxford study on HQC where they overdosed people on it implying that HQC is not safe despite being common for Malaria for years, I think I used it myself when going to the tropics along with Malarone that can cause psychotic episodes.
“Then PMs near death”……I wonder what the truth is on that one when you consider it was a good propaganda tool.
Regarding “The PM’s near-death” – your guess is as good as mine. They all lie, a lot, and not just little lies but big whoppers.
Let us not forget Event 201 in October 2019.
They will of course deny it, but I feel sure this was a war-game / rehearsal.
Such very fortunate timing. Almost prescient. But not a conspiracy of course, you’d need a tinfoil hat to believe that.
Perhaps Geert’s Vanden Bossche’s predictions are coming true? https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/thailand-medical-authorities-report-rising-covid-19-hospitalizations-774-new-hospitalizations-in-last-7-days-possibly-driven-by-new-kq-and-kp-variants
And from the man himself —
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/jn1-is-currently-evolving-into-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=555295&post_id=143411981&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=x6a6a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email