There is currently a raging discussion going on in German-speaking new and social media about whether the leaked final redactions of the minutes of the Robert Koch Institute’s COVID-19 crisis group are in fact forgeries. At least one now ostensibly unredacted and highly publicised passage in the documents strongly suggests that they are.
The passage in question was highlighted by Aya Velazquez, the journalist to whom the documents were provided, in the July 23rd press conference that she held with two other German Covid-response critics.
It reads as follows:
EMA and Pfizer are considering whether they might skip the phase III trials and go directly to broad use, if the regulators decide to do this, then it [the authorisation process] could go quicker than 12-18 months.
The prior bullet-point in the minutes affirms that “normally” the authorisation process of a new vaccine is expected to take “12-18 months from the start of phase I”.
The passage clearly alludes to the authorisation process of what has come to be commonly known as the “Pfizer” COVID-19 vaccine, even though the actual developer and legal manufacturer is the German company BioNTech. The EMA is the European Medicines Agency.
But the problem with the passage is, above all, the date of the minutes in which it is included: April 15th, 2020. The passage is wildly anachronistic. There is no reason why Pfizer should have had any contact with the EMA on authorisation of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine so early.
Indeed, there is no reason why Pfizer would have had any official, direct contact even later. The applicant for the authorisation was not Pfizer. It was BioNTech. This is also the case for the application for full authorisation in the USA. But in the U.S., BioNTech, as a foreign firm, had to appoint a domestic agent and it appointed Pfizer to play this role. The company had no need for any intermediary in the EU.
But in any case, on April 15th, 2020, neither company would have yet had the occasion to discuss their long-term plans with the EMA. BioNTech had only registered its Phase 1 trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate with the EMA literally just the day before! See the entry from the EMA’s Clinical Trials Register below.
This registration will have been BioNTech’s first official contact with the EMA in the matter of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. As indicated in the record, the trial was to be conducted under the aegis of the German regulatory agency, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI).
At this stage, the national regulator, the PEI was undoubtedly BioNTech’s principal interlocutor. According to BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, he and his team first met with the PEI to discuss the company’s COVID-19 vaccine project more than two months earlier, on February 6th. (See The Vaccine, p.52.)
It is important to note that while BioNTech and Pfizer had concluded their COVID-19 vaccine collaboration agreement in mid-March, Pfizer was not involved in the German Phase I trial, which was registered with the EMA on April 14th and which began with the first vaccination of a human subject in Mannheim on April 23rd.
We do know that Sahin was in fact extremely concerned about accelerating the pace of the authorisation process. But it’s hard to imagine that in mid-April 2020 he was thinking so far ahead to the Phase III trials. Having not yet initiated the “first in human” Phase I trial, how could he even know he would get there?
But normal regulatory steps had to be skipped or somehow abridged for BioNTech even to be able to initiate its Phase I human trial in April. In particular, BioNTech had to be allowed to initiate the human trial without first completing a preclinical toxicology study on animals.
As discussed in detail here, the PEI in fact allowed BioNTech to do this, permitting the firm to start its human trial on the basis merely of an “interim” toxicology report before the final results were available. On Sahin’s account, BioNTech received the go-ahead from the PEI on April 21st. (See The Vaccine, p.173.)
It makes little sense for the RKI crisis team to have been discussing Pfizer and the EMA in the April 15th minutes. It would have made a lot of sense for them to be discussing BioNTech and the PEI. The RKI was surely being kept informed by its sister agency about the furious development of BioNTech’s vaccine project. (The two agencies bear roughly the same relationship as the CDC and the FDA in the United States.)
If not, Germany’s then Minister of Health Jens Spahn could have told RKI staff about it. In his April 1st, 2021 speech inaugurating BioNTech’s mRNA manufacturing facility in Marburg, Spahn said that he first met BioNTech CEO Sahin to discuss the company’s COVID-19 vaccine project “around 12 months ago”. This would take us to late March/early April.
The PEI is mentioned twice just a little further on in the same April 15th minutes, and the April 2nd minutes report that the PEI informed the RKI that a “clinical study will receive the authorisation tomorrow”. Curiously, the extant minutes do not tell us whose clinical study.
Other than in a November 11th quote from the British magazine Nature, Pfizer is never again mentioned in the 1834 pages of the 2020 minutes independently of BioNTech. All further references are to “BioNTech-Pfizer”, “BioNTech/Pfizer” and the like. BioNTech is often mentioned alone.
The complete RKI files in the versions provided to Aya Velazquez are available here. German observers quickly spotted that the leaked versions are not in fact identical to the official versions that had been previously released in redacted form to the journalist Paul Schreyer and then published, in already somewhat less redacted form, on the RKI website. (See here, for instance, for one comparison.) Whole passages from the previous release are in fact missing from the leaked version (and at least one of those passages, incidentally, contains redactions) and the language is not the same in others.
Aya Velazquez explained the discrepancies by noting that she herself had received multiple versions of the documents from her source as Word docs and had selected those “closest” to the versions on the RKI website to include in the originally posted PDFs. She has, in the meanwhile, also posted these Word documents.
But, as critics have noted, a Word document can be altered at will. Some of the critics claim that metadata shows modifications being made – presumably by the Robert Koch Institute itself – well into 2024. In any case, what is the point of keeping minutes if they are going to be altered ex post? If the RKI created multiple versions of the crisis group minutes, what does it even mean to speak of an authentic version anymore?
Stop Press: Robert gave an interview to Jay Bhattacharya on his YouTube channel a couple of weeks ago that you can see here.
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All going well if the intention is to undermine trust in this and many other institutions.
Well I just think we’re going to have to resort to putting ‘Penis-owners’ and ‘Vagina-owners’ on toilet/changing room doors because evidently the old, traditional ‘Female/Ladies’ and ‘Male/Men’ is just way to ambiguous these days and is clearly open to interpretation, and with delusional loonies like the woman below ( who doesn’t even know what a woman is ) then we need to be literal to a fault;
”I feel conflicted sometimes when posting these videos.
She’s going to be so embarrassed one day, if she isn’t already, which I think she is. (She showed up the next day just to complain about me speaking with her on camera, even though she approached me to come speak on camera.)
These clips will live on forever, as other people post them.
Evidence of a time when much of the world lost its mind.
She’s going to be so embarrassed that she was sucked into a cult this badly and doesn’t know what a woman is, even though she’s a woman.
It’s just mind-bogglingly stupid and damaging, this whole thing.
But this is a war to protect our kids, and the widespread nature of this insanity has to be shown. The embarrassment these people will feel is unfortunate collateral damage.”
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1797494220414185488
Meanwhile, what with Father’s Day round the corner, what to get the man who has everything? Well which man could possibly say no to a ‘Period Bracelet’? Yes, real men wear a piece of tat around their wrist to show they’re totally onboard with ‘riding the crimson wave’, and I think it just reeks of masculinity, personally. Well, it’s a thing in Turdeau’s Canada, apparently;
”People don’t bring their own toilet paper to work, so they shouldn’t have to bring their own pads and tampons.
We changed that. We put free menstrual products in federally-regulated workplaces.
This bracelet is for Menstrual Hygiene Day.”
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1795687328440316022
Off this topic but Farage has put his cock on the block !!! What Next
‘Cock block’?
Standing as MP for Clacton & taking charge of Reform
By their logic other mammals can have their gender assigned at birth.
Yes we know that most of our institutions have been hijacked by the Wokerati. The Liberal Progressives, formerly known as communists, know that communism gets a bad press, so they do what they do with everything else and just change the language. They think “Progressive” sounds modern and good. Who could possibly object to “Progress” right?
Except “progressing to what? The answer is more and more government controlling every aspect of people’s lives
They lost trust in 2020, anything after makes no difference to me.
Dropped shopping to Old in laws this morning ! ITV morning guff prog (Cat Deeley) over to quiz they said to win a Merc & Cash , I didn’t catch the link up presenters name but nothing could have prepared me for the They Them Things Appearance , I’ll try & describe – big boned camp bloke buffed to the limit with tiny hot pants full make up doing enough to win Top prize at any Pride event ! Main stream Tele for you trying to normalise the abnormal
Sex is not assigned at birth. Sex is determined at conception and noticed at birth or before, and I guess these days in most places sex is legally recorded as part of the process of registering the birth, and I suppose also for hospital records. Sex is not some invented social construct, it’s something provided by God or fate or nature or the universe or whatever you choose to believe in.
“Sex assigned at birth”?
How? Do they hold the baby in front of a Hogwarts Sorting Hat in order to have it’s fate decided?
B*llocks.
Lancet, you need to go the way of News Of The World or Titbits; you have sunk to the same level.