In March 2010, the Council of Europe met to discuss the handling of the 2009-10 influenza H1N1 ‘pandemic’ by member states. The handling had been criticised in an initial motion at the end of 2009 by Dr. Wolfang Wodarg, an epidemiologist and then outgoing MEP. The Council appointed the late Paul Flynn, then a Labour MP as rapporteur.
One of the first criticisms focused on the apparently shifting definition of the influenza pandemic, which WHO appeared to change and tone down in May 2009 in connection with the far-from-devastating impact of the influenza outbreak.
In the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, Peter Doshi summed up the initial controversy as follows:
Since 2003, the top of the WHO Pandemic Preparedness homepage has contained the following statement: “An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in several simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” However, on May 4th 2009, scarcely one month before the H1N1 pandemic was declared, the web page was altered in response to a query from a CNN reporter. The phrase “enormous numbers of deaths and illness” had been removed and the revised web page simply read as follows: “An influenza pandemic may occur when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity.”
The Council of Europe was highly suspicious of the changes, especially as more evidence began to emerge that there was a pandemic industry ready in waiting for the button to be pressed.
Also, the BMJ and Channel 4 investigations led to questions of how far the public and perhaps governments had been misled on the effects of antivirals. The Council wondered whether the definition changes of pandemic influenza may have enabled WHO to declare a pandemic without having to demonstrate the intensity or severity of the disease caused by the H1N1 virus.
Several key players in the saga gave evidence or prepared statements for the Council. The provisional report was published in June 2010 and the final version in 2011; it still makes for sober reading.
Perhaps the fiercest criticism was reserved for the WHO, whose Director-General took advice from an anonymous committee of experts. Their identities were not public at the time, and their disclosures were never made public.
Ironically, one state, which did not follow the general stockpiling and deployment process at the time – Poland – and adopted a low-key approach to the pandemic response fared just as well as one of the most heavily proactive states – France.
The Polish Health Minister, Dr. Ewa Kopacz, told the Council that the conditions imposed by pandemic influenza vaccine producers were unacceptable to her Government. They went something like this: if we deliver late, you pay; if they do not work, you pay; if they induce grave harm, you pay; oh, and the cost will be two to three times that of seasonal influenza vaccines.
All other European states, to our knowledge, had signed secret pre-supply agreements, but some of them slowed the rollout from September 2010 due to concerns about potential harms and the mild nature of the outbreak.
In the end, Doshi concluded that definitions had not changed, as despite a decade of ‘pandemic preparedness’, there was no universally recognised definition.
Readers are encouraged to read the Council of Europe report, where you will find some strangely familiar recurring themes. However, one of Mr. Flynn’s closing recommendations appears particularly apposite today:
For the rapporteur, the main concerns regarding the current H1N1 influenza include the proportionality of the response given to the public health threat of H1N1, the transparency of relevant decision-making processes, including the possibility of undue influence by the pharmaceutical industry and the way in which the pandemic, and the use of the precautionary principle, were communicated to member states’ governments and to the European public at large, also by the media.
John Snow said on Channel 4 News in relation to the scale of the concerns:
It is one of the greatest medical scandals of the century according to a leading health expert in Brussels. The Council of Europe Health Chief has accused major pharmaceutical firms of organising a campaign of panic and unduly influencing World Health Organisation decisions.
Dr. 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 blog, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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A good finishing off clip, given that Snow supported the offence himself, a few years ago, under the recent panic!
And what’s happened to Dr Wolfgang Wodarg? He’s another one that’s dropped off the radar for quite some time now. Especially considering how vocal he was in opposing the scam in 2009, what’s been happening in Germany with excess deaths, restrictions and the court case of Dr Bhakdi, the death of Dr Arne Burkhardt, for example. It’s like he’s disappeared off the face of the earth but he was a strong ally at the beginning due to his knowledge and expertise.
I can update you on Dr Burkhardt. His colleague the lawyer Elmar Becker spoke to our meeting on Tuesday, until the results of the post mortem are published there is only speculation about Dr Burkhardt’s death. His son is unable to say what happened & there was no other witnesses.
Re Wolfgang Wodarg, I have no news.
Yes I was reading some rumours around his death possibly being suspicious on Telegram but there was nothing really factual, just vague with no details, so I didn’t pursue it. I just figured that he was 79yrs so we can expect people to die at that age, but one thing I read said something about him drowning, but really don’t know about the circumstances. As for W.W, last time I saw him was yonks ago on the Reiner Fuellmich videos, but nothing for best part of 2 years now. Lots been happening in Germany to speculate on too so bit surprised we’ve not heard any sort of comment from him on anything.
The last I heard from Dr Wodarg was in December last year. Link to meeting he spoke at if you’re interested in what he was up to then. I can’t remember what he was doing but he is working away below the radar – safest place to be if you’re doing important work & wish to complete it before going public.
https://rumble.com/v22vcbe-december-28-2022.html
Whatever happened to Reiner Fuellmich and the case he was putting together?
One also shouldn’t forget the so-called bird flu of 2004. That was the time when influenza vaccines started to be marketed aggressively. Until then, I wasn’t even aware that vaccinating against something as benign as the flu was even being considered.
And then, all our pandemicists save some unsavoury but relatively unimportant figureheads are still hiding in plain sight, polishing their honours while enjoying their sinecures, smiling warmly when thinking of silvery rainfall into their well-filled coffers and refining their plans for the next rerun of The Great Pandemic[tm] which will then – lessons duly learnt – hopefully last forever or at least, for a much longer time.
The current plan as far as The Liar Institute for Global Change goes is to have an “always on” approach to “vaccines and other injectables”. They intend to have a constant pipeline of adult vaccinations to keep the motors running and the $$ running so that you don’t have to scale up in a pandemic, the factories are already there churning out injections every day for the masses anyway. They advocate pushing an adult vaccination schedule for every country as standard as well as “long lasting injectables” for high cholesterol and heart disease. They see “demand creation” as key, (through persuading governments) otherwise without demand they can’t supply all those completely essential jabs.
Wodarg was one of the sane voices from the outset of the pandemic. I remember in March 2020 listening to a 10-minute video in which he explained what the coronavirus was. On 23 March I naively tried to write to as many MPs as I could asking them to listen to the video and vote against lockdown. I gave them a synopsis:
“There are about 100 flu viruses. Virologists used not to be interested in having tests for them, because there were so many and they keep on evolving. Recently we have developed tests for 8-10 of them.
“Why did the virus break out in Wuhan? Because Wuhan has the biggest safety laboratory for viruses in the whole of China. They found a new type and announced it to the world. In Berlin, which keeps a global database, virologists devised a test for the new variant. A protocol for the test was submitted to the WHO, and because of the panic in China it was accepted without the usual validation procedures. The test (such as it is) does not tell you how dangerous the virus is. For that, you need to survey an entire population and determine ‘excess mortality’.
“In Germany 20,000-30,000 deaths are attributable to flu. Around 10% (7%-15%) of flu viruses are coronavirus. Had tests been done specifically for that virus in previous years, therefore 2000-3000 per year would probably have been attributable to coronavirus. (1) We are nowhere near those numbers at the moment. (2) The numbers being reported do not establish that death was from this specific virus rather than from the other c. 90% that cause respiratory illness.
“Medical researchers have a vested interest in talking such things up. They want to feel important and have political influence; they need funds for their projects. In my opinion, the idea that we are dealing with a virus that, without draconian action, will kill tens of milllions is unsubstantiated.”
Factcheckers stamped on his message only a month later and subsequently YouTube pulled the video.
These people should really be called Factf***ers (or maybe F***checkers).
Like we saw around Climategate (2008) one battlefield of information is Wikipedia, in which an army of editors ensure that the Wikipedia entry for any individual who dissents from the Official Narrative is suitably “corrected”, often with new smears and spin. Dr Wodarg’s entry is no exception. Just as a superficial scan of the edits to Dr Wordarg’s Wikipedia entry illustrates the point. Prior to March 2020, the entry was fairly quiet in terms of number of edits per month, and were largely technical or stylistic changes or reasonable updates. Then the attack begins. You can roughly gauge the nature of the “corrections” and the intentions of the editors simply by looking for words like “notoriety”, “far-right” and “misinformation” added after 2020.
For example (taken from Wikipedia edits, my annotation in italics),
See also “Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia” for the trial run of the army of self-appointed “fact-checkers”, before the term was invented but after schoolchildren took to using Wikipedia as the primary source for assignments!
The evidence is now there that they do seriously reduce fertility in males, with large amounts of spike protein being produced in the testes. Never believe a word of Wilipaedia, nearly all of the content is wrong in many ways.
The hysterical reporting at the time convinced my mum that our family were in grave danger at the time due to a planned trip to visit relatives in Australia, so we all got the swine flu shot. Thankfully the 2009 shot seemed to be mostly harmless along with useless, but that was my last encounter with a vaccinator. Funnily enough, when we got to Australia people were barely even aware of this “pandemic” that was meant to be ravaging the country. Coincidentally (or not), Daniel Andrews was health minister at the time and the state of Victoria rolled out the harshest restrictions and also performed the worst out of all Australian states. Just a practice run for the Dear Leader.
Just waiting for the WHO to declare the HSV-1 pandemic.
What a shame they didn’t have a Public Inquiry after the Swine Flu debacle. The Establishment/Government might have got some lessons that they could have learned.
Or perhaps they did hold a quiet inquiry, and learned the wrong lessons.
The swine flu ‘pandemic’ was definitely an attempt to bring in all the things they did for the Covid scamdemic….I think just not enough people died for them to keep it going!?
They obviously learned a lot of lessons…!?
I have posted this before but my friend, a nurse at the local surgery, told me that after the swine flu vax was known to cause narcolepsy..her surgery used it as that years winter flu jab, to get rid of the surplus..she told all her patients, even though she’d been advised not to…as it happens no one cared…the sheep just took it anyway…
…this article in Der Spiegel has been much quoted..and shows they did really try to get it going……
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reconstruction-of-a-mass-hysteria-the-swine-flu-panic-of-2009-a-682613.html