While COVID-19 vaccine critics are busy celebrating the fall of Pfizer’s share price and its legal troubles in the USA, the German company BioNTech, the actual legal manufacturer of the so-called ‘Pfizer vaccine’ and the main financial beneficiary of its sales, is continuing its expansion with the full and open support of Germany and the EU. On Monday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and BioNTech co-founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci gathered in the Rwandan capital of Kigali to celebrate the inauguration of BioNTech’s new African mRNA vaccine manufacturing site.
The gala event is documented in the Reuters stream here or, in full, in the local RwandaTV stream below.
According to Germany’s dpa wire service, citing official sources, the German Government has contributed €550 million (£479m, $605m) to the project, €500 million coming from the development aid budget. It is not clear how much of this money is going to BioNTech and how much to related local beneficiaries. In any case, after having cleared over €30 billion in profits on sales of its COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 and 2022, BioNTech will surely not need much help.
It should be noted that the German Government already subsidised the expansion of BioNTech’s manufacturing capacity in Europe by way of the €375 million grant it provided to the company in September 2020, before BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate – its only product to date – had even won regulatory approval. Two days later, BioNTech announced that it was purchasing what would become its main European production facility: the Behringwerke in Marburg.
In addition to the €550 million from the German Government, the European Commission has announced that the EU is contributing another €40 million to the project as a “Global Gateway investment”. “Local manufacturing of vaccines with mRNA technology, in Africa, for the African people, will be a game changer in the fight against diseases and pandemics,” Commission President von der Leyen is quoted as saying in the announcement. “The EU is proud to work with Rwanda and BioNTech to develop a vibrant biopharmaceutical industry on the continent.”
In his speech at the Kigali event, Rwandan President Kagame thanked von der Leyen for her “instrumental” role “in initiating the collaboration with BioNTech”.
Referring to BioNTech’s ‘BioNTainer’ production units in her own speech, President von der Leyen remarked: “It is amazing to think that in just two years, these BioNTainers will be producing up to 50 million of [sic.] doses of vaccines per year.”
But there is the rub. Fifty million doses of what vaccines? As just noted, the COVID-19 vaccine is BioNTech’s only product, and the COVID-19 pandemic is officially over. Alluding to the prior speech by BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, von der Leyen continued:
And we are not only speaking about battling the coronavirus. But it is about breaking new ground in the fight against, as you have said, Uğur, tuberculosis, malaria and potentially even cancer.
But there are not any authorised mRNA vaccines or drugs for the latter diseases, and millions of doses are not needed for clinical trials. How, then, will these production units be producing 50 million vaccine doses within two years?
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Note that there’s also a delay between becoming infected, testing positive and becoming infectious.
97% of the Drosten- Chinese PCR tests are fraudulent and no test can identify any kind of live infection – …how many more times does it have to be said?
It is certainly true that they can’t differentiate between an infectious state and one where there’s only RNA fragments some time after infection.
I’m also a bit sceptical of the claimed false positive/negative rates of the tests.
Regardless, the concept of mass testing is backwards — it should be used to confirm a diagnosis based on ‘other things’ (primarily symptoms) rather than being the definitive measure of ‘infection’.
I doubt testing is offering us much at the moment — except — it is the only way that we can see the increased risk of infection (and onwards transmission) in the vaccinated — thus it remains a somewhat useful tool.
“I doubt testing is offering us much at the moment — except — it is the only way that we can see the increased risk of infection (and onwards transmission) in the vaccinated — thus it remains a somewhat useful tool.”
It’s offering certain firms a very nice earner.
And it has been the primary way the fake pandemic was spun out for so long.
As for showing “infections” in the vaccinated, if we didn’t have stupidly high numbers of triple “vaccinated” people, which we pretty obviously should not have, then we would have no need of this information. The point of the “vaccines” was to stop people getting seriously ill and dying, and you don’t need mass testing to judge whether they do that.
The point of the ‘vaccines’ was to stop disease and spread, that is the propaganda I saw. It us the propaganda that a large majority of others report seeing.
As for the less serious, reduced deaths BS… where’s the evidence?
Pfizer’s trial was in the 18 to 55 age bracket with anyone with existing health conditions excluded. Since that left a trial cohort in whom the virus is typically mild with near zero risk of death, how could any evaluation of degree of severity be made?
The ‘vaccine’ has an Absolute Risk Reduction of infection of 0.84%. Actual risk of infection being 0.88%. Infection Mortality is 0.15% so risk of death across the population is, 0.00132%. For which our lives were shut down.
To date there have been no objective, comparative studies, to test the ‘less serious’ (than what?) claim.
It is just a claim which clearly is falsified by the presence of a large number of hospitalised and dead vaccinated people and at a higher rate than non-vaccinated.
Yes agree they were sold as sterilising vaccines. And agree they don’t seem to work too well at anything.
They improved the health of the Pfizer share price to an impressive degree.
The sterilising v@xx is leaky
Except making money for the unprincipled few.
That the jabs would stop disease and spread is not only propaganda it’s also misinformation as the leaflet i got from the NHS said they wouldn’t. Listening to a man yesterday who is an fund manager for a large well-known company, he has covid and couldn’t understand why having had the jabs it hadn’t stopped him getting it. It amused me that as a fund manager, he no doubt does a huge amount of due diligence on companies before investing his clients’ funds in them yet did absolutely none on having the jab. Informed consent – i don’t think so. People just ‘trust’ the medics, more fool them I’m afraid.
I fancy quite a few won’t trust them again in a hurry.
And a FoI request response from HMG/ONS/PHE as it was then confirmed the self same ” doesn’t prevent infection, does not give immunity and does not stop transmission” reply…
And still “tptb” ticks insisted on no benefit vaccines/rt-PCR testing scam ( Whisper – even Drosten admitted, in effect, the test does not “work”)
yes, the vaccines were supposed to stop covid spread. yes, the “experts” told us so.
Quoting back their own words to these liars and genocidal maniacs always works for me – but I reckon “they ” will never “see” it which is why “extreme prejudice” may be the only way to get these criminals to change their behaviour – for good, literally and figuratively.
It should be used for that, yes. But then it wouldn’t be nearly as useful, would it, for ramping up the fear in the Terminally Terrified?
Can you imagine that if the Plandemic had not happened and that you booked an appointment with a GP for a consultation complaining of:-
· a high temperature
· a new, continuous cough
· a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste
They would have told you to take a running jump, gobble a couple of paracetamol and take the day off and stop wasting their time.
End of.
Hmm, interesting chap. Like Fauci and Pantsdown, it seems that there’s never been a headline-hitting novel “disease” during his career that he hasn’t “raced” to find a “test” for.
A true hero, selflessly declaring victory each and every time, collecting gongs and awards while bigging up the threat.
More cynical types might wonder if being first past the post every time might indicate that he’s starting the race from a slightly advantageous position.
David,
I suppose until the cows get milked, or the Sheeple are all shorn
97% of the Drosten- Chinese PCR tests are fraudulent and no test can identify any kind of live infection – …how many more times does it have to be said?
The delay between infection and infectiousness is about 24 hours after which symptoms appear, and lasts about 3 to 4 days post infection. It’s the same for all respiratory viruses.
PCR Test cannot detect disease, so viral fragments detected could be from recent infection without disease, remnants after recovery from disease, or inhaled non-active viral fragments in the nasopharynx.
That just creates a loophole to sink more non-logic into, like explaining how people within the same household get the same symptoms at the same time, but only one will ‘test positive’ with a test allegedly sensitive enough to detect ‘asymptomatic’ cases but misses on full blown symptoms. Give me strength.
The logical explanation is that sars-cov-2 cannot be responsible, at least not in all cases and you have to admit that, even if you won’t dismiss the virus as an outright fraud like I do.
So what’s the transmission mechanism that nobody seems to have put their finger on yet?
Same thing happening in France, apparently.
But ‘colds’ are more prevalent in the shoulder periods of the year, the change of seasons. So if no-one was testing for a ‘cold’ no-one would be any the wiser. As the hospital data implies, they are only picking up infections because the poor sod is a guinea pig waiting for its daily kebab stick up the nose, whilst waiting for whatever it is they are really there for.
Just stop this mindless testing!
Stop the fraudulent ‘tests’ and the virus and “scamdemic” disappear – they don’t want that now do they?
We have known this for over a year.
How can you carry on coercing people to take the jabs with no virus?
I also note that there’s now plenty of evidence that covid came to the UK in autumn 2019 (possibly summer) — and no-one noticed.
My partner almost certainly had Covid in November 2019 – worst flu she’d ever had and two people she worked with had the same at the same time, one of them having a minor stroke as a result.
And this is how the ‘Covid’ story continues. How do you know it was ‘Covid’ when, allegedly, none of the tests are fit for purpose?
So long as people keep claiming they “almost certainly” had Covid, then this will run and run and run forever.
Is this the Covid-doesn’t-exist game? There must be better and more fruitful games available.
I think denying there was an unpleasant respiratory illness around in late 2019-early 2020 is wishful thinking at best, dangerous naivety at worst.
There was an illness, people gave it the name Covid. That’s pretty much indisputable- and about the only that is. There was a massive and deliberate over-reaction to what was never more than a nasty bug, but I’m sorry I’m not buying into the “Covid never ever existed” fallacy because it entirely misses the point. The point is that we shouldn’t over react to nasty bugs. If you say there wasn’t a nasty bug then that does nothing to argue against that.
Logically, it there was no Covid there was no over-reaction, there was a lie about something that, had it been true, would presumably have been ok. Are you happy with that? There’s no Covid but if an actual bug came along then lockdowns would be right? That’s the takeaway most would get from that.
Completely and utterly missing the whole point of what happened over the last two years. We live with bad flu, we don’t pretend it doesn’t happen.
I had something I’ve never experienced before whilst visiting Houston in Sept. 2019. Worst short-term “flu” I’ve ever had.
“Almost certainly Covid”.
France conducted autopsies and tested tissue samples where available on folk who had died of pneumonia in the period before Covid was a ‘thing’. The earliest they found SARS-Cov-2 viral fragments was in someone who died on 4 Dec 2019.
Without a doubt I had what could be described as “Original Covid” in November 2019, although I just addressed it as flu, which was all it was at the time! My mum also had it a couple of weeks before me. Both of us mainly had a deep-seated cough, loss of taste and smell for some considerable time, and absolute fatigue a number of weeks. But there was no testing then, thankfully, and no hysteria, I just stayed at home like a civilised human being, and got over it. Just a side note: was it a coincidence that my cough mixture of choice was called “Covonia”?
In the before times, when we weren’t encouraged to be raving hypochondriacs, temporary loss of taste and smell frequently accompanied a cold.
It was the downside of having a day off – you could sit at home and eat what you liked, but it had no taste. I don’t know of anybody who bothered to consult a doctor about it.
In the 1990s I had a really bad cold and lost my sense of smell for about a year. I blamed the loss on the Olbas Oil I was inhaling, but perhaps I was wrong.
Was it fun at the time?
Err…no, it wasn’t, but thanks for asking.
Sorry – I was being flippant about the Olbas Oil, which was meant to be at least moderately pleasurable, not the loss of smell, which would be terrible for that length of time: no joke at all.
I certainly noticed that. I had a prolonged case of vertigo during all of September 2019 (I didn’t know the term at that time), something I never experienced before, followed by the flu-from-hell in November[*]. It didn’t leave me with the impression that it had the potential to become a public health catastrophe, though, and future occurence (roughly in line with popular variants) became progressively milder until Omicron, from which I again got something like a more unpleasant cold.
[*] I’m a single-person-household, hence, I usually just keep going if I can as there’s nobody else here doing anything. In this case, for the first time in my life, I actually couldn’t (for a single day, the ones before and after were bad but manageably so).
Yup, had “odd” cold type episode in December 2019, not like usual Winter snuffles for sure, 3 days and felt OK.
The only way to stop the scam is by dealing with the people running the scam.
Member of Johnson Cabinet opens mouth and lies come out….what’s new?
The order ( ‘do as I do!’) comes from the top!
Somewhat off-topic, but worth a mention is that after the ‘article’ (IMHO hit piece) by Dr Roger Watson about NZ Dr Sam Bailey last week, Toby and the team at the DS have apparently refused her the right of reply by posting her own article response (her husband Mark did post a short initial response in the BTL comments area).
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/03/11/the-real-truth-about-viruses/
Not exactly a ‘free speech’ response there, eh Toby? To say I was disappointed is an understatment. Does he fear being ‘cancelled’, including funding (and banking facilities) generally for being true to what he says he believes, i.e. in free speech and no censorship?
I think readers (and Dr Bailey) deserve an official response at the very least, so we can all make up our own minds. Him allowing her to write an article doesn’t mean he (and this website) ascribes to her views – they can state that, but the whole point of open, honest free speech and debate means both sides get a chance to say their piece and to respond to the other, especially when accusations are made.
Yes a vacuous and blatant hit piece.
I couldn’t agree more, Mr. Smeg.
Would that be the same Toby Young who runs something called the Free Speech Union. Surely not?
I am led to believe that it is the case.
Are the DS editors not allowing Dr Bailey to respond because giving her a platform might get the DS on some sort of naughty list?
That’s my thinking – especially as some people and organisations (including the Reform Party, who are hardly extremists) here in the UK have had their banking facilities withdrawn with little or vague explanations and then blacklisted.
Either that or they perhaps (IMHO) aren’t as ‘free speech’ advocates as they purport to be and are more ‘mainstream media’ than they let on.
Being a REAL outsider (especially sticking to your proverbial guns no matter what because you firmly believe in something) doesn’t make you wealthy. It doesn, however, take a lot of courage.
I don’t see much reason to doubt TY’s sincerity and he’s surely not daft enough to have chosen this as a route to getting rich. I expect it’s the desire to remain vaguely “reputable”.
Which means its more about (IMHO) a lack of courage than anything else. Dr Sam Bailey and her (also Doctor) husband have both put their careers on the line – at the very least Sam changed her views on the subject of viruses (she was ‘red pilled’ back in 2020).
As a result of publicly saying she (and her family) were not going to take the COVID jab, she lost her secondary job as a TV presenter (doing a job similar to Dr Hillary Jones) and now may not be able to practice as a doctor at all despite the NZ Medical Council not proving any of the allegations (IMHO lies) against her.
“Either that or they perhaps (IMHO) aren’t as ‘free speech’ advocates as they purport to be and are more ‘mainstream media’ than they let on.”
Mainstream establishment, in my book.
Doublethink and newspeak spring to mind.
It would be very advantageous for the powers that be to have a list of dissenting voices, even it is just an email address.
May be I’m just an old, angry cynic.
Nah, you’ve just got a highly-tuned BS-meter, and you can spot it a mile (not a km) away.
I’m a member of Toby’s Free Speech Union so it seems a bit off if what you say is true. The article by Roger Watson was nothing but a worthless hit piece and I’m at a loss why it was published in the first place, but it was published and Dr. Sam Bailey ought to have a right of reply.
Correct – ad hominem in action
It is still the cold/flu season. People always feel more peaky in Jan/Feb/Mar than Oct/Nov/Dec. ‘Covid’ will retreat again in April.
I imagine March marks the low point in Vitamin D levels in the Northern Hemisphere.
Yes, that as well.
Rise in Tide Was Expected After I Sat on the Beach Commanding it so, King Canute says – Yet Tide Was Rising Already, and Also Surged in Scotland
Don’t forget the tide did after a while turn thereby proving Canute’s powers over Nature, just as CoVid declined as Spring approached in 2021 thereby proving vaccines worked, and that lockdowns and masks had worked just before Summer 2020.
Zoe is increasingly rapidly – probably in proportion to how much Tim Spector wants an extension to his funding
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data
Unreasonable calumny given the Zoe numbers have closely tracked other measures throughout.
not any more
https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1502178655308374020
I have an overwhelming desire to ‘Tango’ Sadgit Jabit with a pair of kippers.
https://youtu.be/YV8zGNe7Ebg
Perhaps he is being ‘done up like a kipper’?
I have noticed the infection rate increasing on the Spectator data tracker. I wondered if there might be a link with the fall in efficacy of the vaccine, particularly the booster. Earlier DS articles indicated a correlation between the number of shots and succeptibility to infection.
When will this obsession with CoVid end? Imagine if they did the same tracking for the Common Cold.
But here’s a question: why, after two years if this ‘fast spreading’ virus, with well over 90% of people by now immunised either by pseudo-vaccination (80% plus) or natural acquired immunity, how is it there are so many people left to get ‘infected’?
From whom are they catching it and how is it spreading?
Indeed. I did see a figure of 100-200k deaths if they did the 28 days within a positive test for the commom cold trick. Not sure where it came from but it wouldnt surprise me.
You can test +ve with pcr for up to about 90 days after infection i believe. People have probably caught something else and are testing positve still. Its a scam. We are still in an ’emergency’ situation apparently to keep the jabs authorised, so they are desperate to keep it going.
I keep asking a question to which i can’t get a proper answer, even from doctors.
Do viruses like the coronavirus remain in our body in some sort of homeostatic equilibrium, kept in check, in very small amounts by our immune system and start multiplying and causing illness in us when our defences are low?
Or does the body eliminate these kind of viruses completely and they remain in some external reservoirs, like animals, that infect us again, perhaps also when are defences are low?
In other words, do flus and colds make us ill by reinfecting us from the outside or do they ebb and flow from within?
From my understanding the answer to do respiratory viruses linger dormant in our bodies is no, unlike for example Herpes. All they want to do is reproduce as fast as possible and that requires an active infection reproducing copies in the nasopharynx and a mobile host to spread them via aerosols.
But your second proposition is correct, there is a reservoir for such viruses outside Humans to provide re-introduction so we can never be rid of them – vaccines or not – unlike Small Pox for which there was no non-Human reservoir.
Which is why those talking about vaccine eradicated SARS CoV 2 using Small Pox as an example, tells us a great deal about the state of The Science ™️ and those peddling it.
Oh, you can catch ‘Covid’ many times. We will never really be safe from it. Imagine that people will still be wearing face masks in 20 years’ time … do you think that could happen?
Why would Pfizer (and the other ‘vaccine’ manufacturers) ever stop now that they have a captive audience, begging for their ‘vaccines’ in case they get Covid and it could “be worse”?
Does anyone think the huge PCR testing lab in Leamington Spa is just going to close? It’s new. It was built to have this scam and control over the population continue for many years to come.
Anyone here know anyone who works in that lab?
Pfizer is interested only in money and killing off the population with its ‘vaccine’ will negatively affect sales so I suspect the cartel will look to produce a less lethal product.
The real test of whether this covid nightmare is over was never going to be during a lull period but rather when infections rise and hospitals fill up.
Let’s see. If we can’t get past some minor surge like this one without some coercive measures coming back, there’s really no hope.
But the real test will be next winter.
won’t it just when all those triple jabbed [maybe quadruple by that point – who knows?] start to get unwell.
Is there anyone left who thinks anything uttered by our Health Secretary is worth a listen? Other, of course, than his mum.
Be fair: it would be a breach of precedent if the Health Secretary did not talk tripe about Covid.
OT Can anyone tell me what the purpose is of the reCAPTCHA obstacle we have to negotiate each time we log on? I had to click on three separate panels today. I have a username and a password so what’s the ‘reCAPTCHA’ nonsense for? I don’t believe it’s for security.
It’s because a lot of people on here said they have been thinking of moving to Florida. Toby has obliged by providing them with a virtual Florida of yellow school buses and palm trees.
They have saved on the air fares so can afford some more petrol for the next month.
I’ve fact-checked your comment and it is mostly false.
How about a guess…. whoever wrote the software for the login process shoved it in because it looks good and makes a nice little earner for them from Google via the thousands of websites that use the code.
Nor do I. Lots of websites manage without anything so ridiculous as to ask you to identify three squares with traffic lights, then if you fail that three more with palm trees, etc, etc.
Moreover, these absurd questions are in US English. I thought this was the UK?!
As I understand things, it is supposed to prevent, or at least limit, infestation by the kind of auto spamming bot farms that result in every other post being from some dodgy bird with a lipstick kiss in their ‘handle’?
couldn’t agree with you more.
I use other sites which also use the reCAPTCHA thingy – but all you have to do is tick one box to confirm you are not a robot.
You don’t have to destroy your eyesight trying to squint at little boxes wondering if they do or do not “contain a chimney” somewhere in the distance!!
And as usual, if you look at testing in the UK, the curve in the first picture (I won’t say graph) mirrors the tests for those days. Note the localised peak around February 21-23rd.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing
This is just so dull and predictable now. We’re never shown any context that makes the coofs look less significant, just cherry picked BOMBSHELLS that big it up.
Off topic, but I’ve just heard that a relative has just died of pneumonia, along with several other conditions. It’s been 2 years since pneumonia has been attributed to a cause of death, is this Covid pandemic turning a corner?
When a PCR test comes back positive in hospital no further testing is done for 90 days. There’s no confirmation and no consideration of previous infection within the 90 days prior to admission. There is also no notice taken of recent developments showing the PCR doesn’t differentiate between flu, colds or other coronaviruses.
I no longer believe anything the governing administration say – no matter which ‘party’ they belong to. All that is said is whatever the Civil Servants and the various ‘advisers’ want to have said.
However, Covid seems to be going the rounds. Two of my sons got it this week, and they live 200 miles apart…
Indeed, the fact that infections surged in Scotland and Wales, even so more than England, puts the lie to the claim that Boris or Freedom Day had anything at all to do with the increase. They are also rising in several other European countries, though interestingly NOT Sweden or Denmark. Seasonality versus herd immunity versus variant effects versus jab efficacy or lack thereof, basically.
Potential side effects of jabs include chronic inflammation, because the vaccine continuously stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies. Other concerns include the possible integration of plasmid DNA into the body’s host genome, resulting in mutations, problems with DNA replication, triggering of autoimmune responses, and activation of cancer-causing genes. Alternative COVID cures EXIST. Ivermectin is one of them. While Ivermectin is very effective curing COVID symptoms, it has also been shown to eliminate certain cancers. Do not get the poison jab. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
Same old lies, damned lies and statistics from “our” government. Time we were rid and had a truly patriotic government rather than one under globalists’ control.
If they stopped testing for covid and began testing for the common cold we would have a great surge in cold cases. When are these people going to catch on???
Isn’t it a shame we have to take our medical advice from a politician. Everyone around the world now knows, the more you vaxx the more covid cases you get
. We now know early treatments work, but sadly have been banned by your government. Oops. Crimes against…..well you know.
Sajid Javid often talks rubbish, but claiming the latest uptick of infections has anything to do with the provenly ineffectual restrictions takes the biscuit. He is an idiot with no business being in government if he believes this, and a knave if he is lying to the public.
”…he urged adults eligible for a booster vaccine to come forward and get the jab….”
We can’t expect the scientifically illiterate ‘health’ secretatary to be aware of the Pfizer revelations, and no doubt his minions (or handlers) aren’t too bothered about informing him (as if he’d care). Why keep a dog and bark yourself, after all?
From all we know now – surely there can’t be THAT many clueless idiots who want yet more poison injected into their bodies…. But yes, we can certainly count on some, and there’ll be many panting for the fourth jab soon to stop them catching a mild seasonal cold (or helping them to contract it – ‘‘I’d have been SO much worse if I hadn’t had the jab…..”)
sigh
Are you back to the C19 propaganda, pretending to be against it?
What the new ‘variant’ name? “Deltacron”?
Ridiculous!!1