Last month, German Health Minister and renowned virus pest Karl Lauterbach gave a remarkable interview in which he denounced “exorbitant” pharmaceutical profits, deplored “dismaying” vaccine injuries, and called for the manufacturers to set aside funds for those who have been harmed. He did so amid a growing wave of reporting on vaccine injuries in the German press – a wave which his statements have now turned into a tsunami. In the weeks since, vaccine injuries and side effects have become the dominant theme of German press coverage on the jabs, from local papers to national media.
It’s been a serious shift, the likes of which I’m not sure has unfolded in any other country. To give you a taste of it, I’ve assembled a representative selection of stories from the last eight weeks or so, in roughly reverse chronological order. As you read through them, remember that these are all links to publications read by ordinary people; I’ve excluded all media with overt Covid-sceptic associations.
- From the national tabloid BILD:
He lost his sight: Dietmar S. sues BioNTech for 150,000 Euros.
Dietmar S. became as good as blind in his right eye following Covid vaccination. Now the case is going to trial.
- From Der Spiegel:
“The problems are hushed up”: Marburg cardiologist Bernhard Schieffer treats people who suffer from long-term symptoms after Covid vaccinations. He criticises the lack of support – and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.
- From the Hessische/Niedersäschsische Allgemiene, a regional paper:
Post-Vac: “My life is no longer like before” – Sick after Covid vaccination.
Almost five million people in Hesse have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Some have developed serious illnesses afterwards. One of them is Dieter Gebert from Kassel.
- From the local Frankfurter Neue Presse:
Lupus after Covid vaccination: A young woman from Hesse is treated in special Cologne clinic.
19-year-old Juline from Butzbach was severely injured by a Corona vaccination and now requires expensive immunoadsorption.
- From the state media behemoth ZDF:
Covid vaccine injury: Do manufacturers face liability? Anyone who has suffered vaccine damage can take action against the vaccine manufacturers and apply for state benefits. But the hurdles for compensation are high.
- From tagesschau, a major state media news service:
Soon the first lawsuits will start: Across Germany, there are almost 200 civil lawsuits against Corona vaccine manufacturers like BioNTech. The plaintiffs claim to have been harmed by the vaccination.
- From the regional Schwäbische Zeitung:
Injection with an aftermath: A man from Sigmaringen suffered a stroke after Covid vaccination
Shortly after the second jab, Bernhard Strobel collapsed. He still feels the consequences today. Now he is going to court.
- Again from BILD:
VACCINE INJURY! 1ST CASE BEFORE THE COURT: Oxana G. (35) is wheelchair-bound following Covid vaccination.
Across Germany, 185 civil lawsuits are pending because of damages caused by Corona vaccinations. Oxana G. (35) is one of the injured parties. The fact that the courts are finally dealing with her case is already seen as a success by the woman from Halle: “I have lost my life – as I knew it before. I hope that my family and I will finally receive compensation and help.”
- From Hessenschau, a publication of regional Hessischer Rundfunk:
Sick following Covid vaccination: Why official points of contact [for the vaccine injured] are necessary.
Around five million people in Hesse have been vaccinated against Corona. Some have become seriously ill as a result of the vaccination. Those affected often fail in their search for medical expertise; they feel abandoned by the health system and the state.
- From Die Zeit, Germany’s largest weekly newspaper:
What we know about Covid vaccine injury: Karl Lauterbach has promised victims of vaccine damage faster help – and caused confusion about how common it is in the first place. The state of the question.
- From the Berliner Zeitung:
Covid vaccine researcher: “Allegations must be investigated immediately.”
Vaccine researcher Carlos A. Guzmán talks about the benefits, limitations and side effects of the Covid vaccine – as well as allegations of inconsistencies in the approval process.
- From the Bamberg-based news portal inFranken:
Pensioner (87) dies eight months after Covid vaccination – his son’s lawsuit fails.
After an elderly man died within a few months of Covid vaccination, his son filed a lawsuit against the doctor. He has now failed before the Landgericht.
- Again from ZDF:
The suffering of Covid vaccine victims: Long-term complaints can occur following a Corona infection. Vaccination is supposed to protect against this – but it can also have side effects. What’s next for the vaccine-injured?
- From Tagesspiegel:
Possible heart damage after Covid vaccination: Woman sues BioNTech for damages.
The company is facing its first civil lawsuit for alleged damages caused by the Corona vaccine. The trial is scheduled to begin on 15 March at the Frankfurter Landgericht.
The trend is so dominant that it colours all other reporting on Covid and the vaccines. It’s hard to miss the subtle anxiety at work in pieces like this one from the Vienna-based Standard, asking whether we’ll have to vaccinate ourselves against Corona every year from here on out, or the not-so-veiled notes of hope in ZDF reporting on successful Phase 1 trials of the German nasal vaccine. What’s the big deal about regular vaccination and why should we care about new live attenuated vaccines, if the mRNA jabs were God’s gift to man?
There are clear, encouraging patterns here. The reporting originally surrounded lawsuits brought against the vaccine manufacturers, but has steadily assumed a more general focus. Regional and local papers are carrying a big share of these stories, with major state media playing a supporting role. The publications most popular with German biens pensants, meanwhile, like Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit and even Frankfurter Allgemeine, are pointedly underrepresented. This is a trend driven from the bottom up by popular interest, and in that it is the opposite of much Covid reporting since 2020.
Of course, these stories have always been out there, but until the last few months, enthusiasm for the vaccines was sufficient to suppress them. As with all pandemic policies, mass vaccination exhibits qualities of inertia. Obsession steadily grew through the summer months of 2021, as the jab failed to eradicate Covid, and achieved a frenzied peak around December 2021. There was nothing to do about the insane mania and its manifold irrationality back then, and the steady disenchantment with these products will prove just as inexorable.
This isn’t the repudiation I would have chosen. The focus on isolated stories allows the very same press outlets to recycle WHO propaganda that the vaccines have saved a million European lives, and to repeat uncritically the claims of foolish regulators that “vaccination was the decisive factor” in ending the pandemic. I also have reservations about the emerging discussion of “Post-Vac Syndrome” – not because I doubt that the vaccines have made people sick, but because it seems to be built from the same ill-defined grab-bag of fibromyalgia-adjacent symptoms as Long Covid. This is a continuation of the media-supported myth that vaccine injuries are merely a subset of the long-term sequelae from Covid itself, and it’s a not-so-subtle way to preempt any kind of cost-benefit analysis. But, for a pandemic that was also built largely on innumerate anecdotes, and a media that has proven chronically unable to notice basic patterns or count things, perhaps this is the only repudiation that was ever possible.
The pharmaceuticals have made a lot of money, but their mRNA vaccines have failed. The Robert Koch Institut have stopped updating their vaccine dashboard, after almost four months of totally flatlined uptake; one of the foremost mRNA promoters, Bill Gates, has called the jabs a disappointment and compared them unfavourably to masks, of all things; and BioNTech, facing a revenue decline of 70%, have announced an impending return to mRNA-based cancer therapies – their original focus upon their founding in 2008, where they’ve never enjoyed particular success. Perhaps if the vaccinators had proceeded cautiously, limiting their promises and jabbing only the most vulnerable on a strictly voluntary basis, they could’ve preserved some future for their doubtful products. Instead, they oversold and over-administered their snake oil, and two years later most people have decided they don’t like it very much.
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Well there will be no drop in revenue for Pfizer, nor Moderna given all of the factories they’re building worldwide. On the contrary, they’ve got big plans. Daniel Horowitz has more;
”Just to understand why the vaccine human experimentation is just beginning, not coming to an end, for the first time in biopharma history, Pfizer has broken the $100 billion revenue barrier last year. It also supplanted J&J as the top revenue-producing company. None of that was created by the free market; rather, the company’s income comes from taxpayers and printed money used for marketing, distributing, shaming, indemnifying, and mandating its product upon the world. The entirety of its revenue over its average of $43 billion was from the vaccines and Paxlovid. Do you think Pfizer and its enablers in government will turn off this spigot with the pandemic now over? Think again.
In a recent presentation on Q4 2022 earnings, Pfizer is predicting that its vaccine revenue in the coming years will rise again almost to pandemic levels.
Well, if COVID is over, where is this revenue coming from? Clearly, the company expects this to become an annual shot, especially for seniors, and that pediatricians will push it upon the children. Also, it is predicting massive revenue from its COVID/flu combo shots beginning in two years.
Recently, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla stated, “We are aligned very much with China 2030 Agenda and we are trying to contribute as much as we can.” The Biden administration is continuing to give the company the money, resources, and authorities to do just that.”
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-beware-the-fda-is-not-retreating-on-the-covid-jabs-it-is-reloading-2659892827.html
Well, the pharma trade is betting on it. Early today, there was a brief story on the BBC “world service” channel along the lines of it grumbling about the fall in demand for conventional vaccines against things like Tetanus/Diphtheria/Polio and their forecast about the increase of such infections. Maybe they have shot themselves in the foot, if sane people are generally acquiring a more critical attitude to the whole lot.
A wise approach to the development of any novel produce would have been better for all of us, rather than grabbing hold of the pandemic horse.
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Never mind Germany, what about the Times muppets?
The Times, an editor of whom labelled btl commenters on this site as “anti-‘vaxxers’ ” for daring to raise legitimate questions about the dangerous experimental mRNA medication running a story like this appears to represent a change of direction after steadfastly refusing to question this medication for a long time, despite having a journalist (or policy editor) in Oliver Wright who had previously covered abuses by the pharmaceutical industry (including Pfizer) whilst working for the Independent, Why now, I wonder? And is this a genuine change of direction by these muppets? I hope so!
When they report a Pfizer or Moderna injury, that will be a change in direction. AstraZeneca has it seems been fair game for a while.
I have zero sympathy for the vaccine injured. Sorry, just don’t. If.I was able to put up with the hectoring, so could they.
And as far as these news people who actively promoted the jabs and are.jow surprised by the injuries goes, I would take them all out to public square.and guillotine them. And even that might be too good for them.
But that’s just me.
Not just you, me and a few others I suspect
I certainly understand where your coming from but if we take that attitude it makes us no better than the vaccine zealots at the time! They are as much victims, victims of big pharm and government totalitarianism, it just shows them up for their weakness of spirit, we were the critical thinkers and we stood strong against all their vitriolic abuse!
That’s my payback!
I think that’s a bit harsh, Stewart. Some undoubtedly did succumb to the injections to avoid being labelled as “anti-vax” or “selfish” or “granny-killers”, and I have little sympathy for them. But most surely were simply persuaded by the propaganda that the injections were indeed “safe and effective”. While we may criticise their lack of critical thinking, that cannot be a reason not to sympathise with them for being fooled. I mean, why wouldn’t you trust your GP or the MSM? We know why, but it’s still a pretty big leap for anyone to take.
Yes, a lot of people, even highly intelligent people, just outsource their medical thinking to their GP, they don’t realise how much woo there is in the medical system or how much they can do for their own health. And they don’t realise just how much the collapse in MSM advertising revenues has left them at the mercy of special interests.
A couple of decades ago I might have been one of those people myself. For a while I had a flu shot every year. One year, the GP surgery staff even tried to dissuade me, they told me none of them would take it themselves.
So, the only question is how soon will it be before the British MSM run similar stories….
Soon all “vaccines” will be mRNA ie gene therapy based as Mogwai states in these comments.
The more immediate risks are of a CV nature, but as regards the longer term risks :-
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/how-covid-vaccines-cause-cancer_4952911.html
Reminds me of how it was several decades ago when asbestos cladding was the bee’s knees for insulation, fire protection etc. As most now know, it took a long time to work it out.
Well, asbestos, let’s talk about that.
In situ and left alone it’s absolutely fine and no threat to anyone.
A few kids who played in piles of asbestos as if it was snow developed some problems, sure.
Another wholely unjustified massive panic…
The headline and Berenson’s take and interpretation of this piece are totally out of whack.
Yes, there are some more anecdotes in the MSM.
The side-effects have become impossible.to hide. Even my vaxx and vaxx mandate loving father has noted and admitted that his severe digestive problems have started after his latest booster- Karma.
Yes, the ‘the vaccine is great, PV is LC and LC is bad’ shill Prof. Schieffer is talking a bit more about PV than of his favourite pet LC.
Yes, Lauterbach went astray on TV once- only to delete his funding commitment for PV a day later.
But, in contrast to the UK, a parliamentary enquiry request was also smashed after just a 30 minute debate, and everyone in charge and most people still seriously think that Germany did great, that the vaccines were life savers and that the Querdenkers are Nazis.
True, bar the true addicts, people are now foregoing the ‘Mäuseimpfung’/mouse booster, but they will all line up for them again once a new variant and a real update of the goo is available.