Orthodox Reflections

Just like the “War on Terror” and the “War on Drugs,” the new “War on COVID” is intended to be a perpetual source of corporate profit and ever-expanding government power. We have the “vaccines” now, but they work so well you need a booster shot every year. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said, “I think the most likely scenario is annual vaccinations. But we don’t know, really. We need to wait.” Pfizer already asked for emergency use authorization for boosters. Moderna and J&J are following suit.

It makes you wonder if such waning efficacy is a feature or a bug? Huge money is at stake on the boosters. Enough to make you wonder if this wasn’t the plan all along. This is from the Chicago Tribune:

Morningstar analyst Karen Andersen expects boosters alone to bring in about $26 billion in global sales next year for Pfizer and BioNTech and around $14 billion for Moderna if they are endorsed for nearly all Americans. (Editorial Note – That is in addition to the $33.5 billion estimated to be earned this year by Pfizer.)

 

For Pfizer and Moderna, the boosters could be more profitable than the original doses because they won’t come with the research and development costs the companies incurred to get the vaccines on the market in the first place.

 

WBB Securities CEO Steve Brozak said the booster shots will represent “almost pure profit” compared with the initial doses.

But Pfizer is not just relying on boosters, the company is also expanding its market by asking for emergency authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine for children 5-11. This would expand Pfizer’s potential market for its vaccine by another 28 million. Everyone actually knows that children are not at risk for COVID. The Pfizer CEO even admitted that on Twitter. Covid’s risk to healthy children is so low as to be difficult to quantify. If you can’t quantify the risk from the disease, how could you ever quantify the “benefit” from a vaccine? But to “stop transmission” and “protect” grandmas or teachers or whatever, it is necessary to subject innocent children to experimental injections of mRNA that they absolutely are at risk from and do not need.

Once FDA approval is granted, Governor Newsome in California has already indicated that the vaccine will be required from Kindergarten up. More Blue States and Blue Areas will follow rapidly. The Federal Government will amp the pressure on the Red State holdouts.

Pfizer stakeholders and shareholders must be ecstatic.

Even better for them, Big Pharma is no longer just about the jabs. After months of attacking treatments for COVID while pushing its vaccine, it turns out that Pfizer has been working on a pill treatment.

Another piece US anti-Ivermectin puzzle may have emerged. On Monday, Pfizer announced that it’s launching an accelerated Phase 2/3 trial for a COVID prophylactic pill designed to ward off COVID in those may have come in contact with the disease.

 

Coincidentally (or not), Pfizer’s drug shares at least one mechanism of action as Ivermectin – an anti-parasitic used in humans for decades, which functions as a protease inhibitor against Covid-19, which researchers speculate “could be the biophysical basis behind its antiviral efficiency.”

 

Lo and behold, Pfizer’s new drug – which some have jokingly dubbed “Pfizermectin,” is described by the pharmaceutical giant as a “potent protease inhibitor.”

Pharmaceutical giant Merck also announced promising results from a study of a new antiviral drug. Molnupiravir is touted to have reduced COVID hospitalizations and death by 50% in a trial involving 775 volunteers. So looks like COVID is treatable after all. Many vulnerable people (perhaps made more vulnerable by the “vaccines”) will get very sick. So Pfizer (and Merck) will make even more money with COVID pills that largely replicate the effects of the much reviled Ivermectin. Merck is charging the U.S. government $712 a pill for its treatment. Anyone think Pfizer will be much cheaper? Ivermectin costs about $10 for a complete course of treatment. No wonder it was necessary to destroy the reputation of that drug and anyone who tried to save lives by prescribing it.

As we said in an article outlining the various parties that benefit from the “New Normal”, for all the people that matter, COVID is a very profitable project meant to go on forever:

Not only the companies are making money, but also investors and employees are getting rich(er) by the day. Mega asset management firms Vanguard and BlackRock are the largest stockholders in Pfizer. COVID has been a bonanza for investors. Not only have their pharma investments increased, but COVID interventions also caused record low interest rates and a massive tsunami of money printing. The mega money firms who co-own the world economy never had it so good.

 

COVID is a gravy train on biscuit wheels. No one onboard wants it to stop rolling. They have money. They have power. They have unlimited greed.

But hold on a minute – sure investors and Big Pharma sociopaths might want to exploit COVID for fun and profit, but isn’t the Food and Drug Administration supposed to be looking out for the American people?

Unfortunately, the FDA is on the take, and so are its employees.

Revolving Door and Delayed Bribes at the FDA

The FDA is deeply corrupt and ineffective at guarding public health. A Science investigation exposed the conflicts of interest on drug panels meant to serve as gatekeepers for drug approvals. The panels vote on both new drug approvals and the expansion of indications for existing drugs. And they are full of corruption.

• Of 107 physician advisers who voted on the committees Science examined, 40 over a nearly 4-year period received more than $10,000 in post hoc earnings or research support from the makers of drugs that the panels voted to approve, or from competing firms; 26 of those gained more than $100,000; and six more than $1 million.
• Of the more than $24 million in personal payments or research support from industry to the 16 top-earning advisers—who received more than $300,000 each—93% came from the makers of drugs those advisers previously reviewed or from competitors.
• Most of those top earners—and many others—received other funds from those same companies, concurrent with or in the year before their advisory service. Those payments were disclosed in scholarly journals but not by FDA.

A 2016 study found that 15 of the 26 employees who left the agency later worked or consulted for the biopharmaceutical industry. Of the more than $24 million in personal payments or research support from industry to the 16 top-earning advisers, 93% came from the makers of drugs those advisers previously reviewed.”

 

Yet benefits that come later, even years after a drug approval vote—jobs, money, professional prestige, and influence—are also fraught, ethicists say. They are a way of “postponing your reward,” says Carl Elliott, a medical ethicist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis who has persistently criticized the financial inducements pharma gives to researchers. “You do something positive for a company that you feel confident is going to pay you back for it later on. And they do.”

The science of corruption. Don’t bribe the guy in office, wait till he leaves office and then pay him for his services. Just one example is Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He was head of the FDA who then resigned and joined the board of Pfizer. A culture of after-the-fact bribery dominates the FDA.

It isn’t just individual scientists that are on-the-take. The entire agency is as well. The FDA is funded in large part by the very industry it is supposed to regulate.

Almost half the budget of the FDA comes from user fees paid by companies. That financing arrangement has made a huge difference in how the FDA operates. The following is from C. Michael White, a pharmacist and medication and dietary supplement safety researcher at UConn School of Pharmacy:

The Food and Drug Administration has moved from an entirely taxpayer-funded entity to one increasingly funded by user fees paid by manufacturers that are being regulated. Today, close to 45% of its budget comes from these user fees that companies pay when they apply for approval of a medical device or drug…Of the FDA’s total US$5.9 billion budget, 45% comes from user fees, but 65% of the funding for human drug regulatory activities are derived from user fees. These user fee programs must be reauthorized every five years by Congress, and the current agreement remains in effect through September 2022.

The data show the FDA has gone from a drug approval rate of 38% in 2005 to 61% in 2018. In situations where a drug is aimed at a disease where few medication options already exist, 89% of new drug applications are approved on the first try. 21% of FDA approved medications ultimately had to be removed from the market or be given a black box warning. Essentially, if you’re taking a newly approved drug, the chances that this drug will be found to be extremely dangerous is 1 in 5. Only one in ten new drugs provide substantial benefit compared to existing, established drugs. The malfeasance of the FDA has been so bad that prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death. American patients also suffer from about 80 million mild side effects a year, such as aches and pains, digestive discomforts, sleepiness or mild dizziness.

The conflicts of interest at the personal and agency levels account for the seemingly bizarre behavior of the FDA. Well, ‘bizarre’ if you think the mandate is protecting the American people.

Let’s look at what happened with booster shot approvals. The FDA didn’t even convene its own Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) during the Pfizer vaccine approval process. It did choose to call a VRBAC meeting to discuss approving boosters. By the end of the meeting, 16 of the 18 VRBPAC members voted “no” on approving a Comirnaty booster dose for people over the age of 16. That should have been the end of the meeting, but it wasn’t. After members indicated they’d be comfortable recommending a booster for seniors and “people at high risk of severe COVID-19,” a second vote was hastily thrown together to approve that option. Politics and corruption were then fully on display. President Biden had promised boosters, so almost immediately the FDA pivoted from “individuals at high risk of severe COVID-19” infection, to having booster approval apply to “health care workers or others at high risk of occupational exposure.” This change greatly expands the market for boosters, makes Biden’s promise closer to a reality, and helps ensure a steady stream of profits for Pfizer, in anticipation of the really big payday when boosters will be available and required for everyone. 

The corruption at the FDA probably makes the future vote on vaccination for children a foregone conclusion. The regulatory power of the federal government is not going to save your children from the jabs. That is on you, parents.

Corrupt FDA Hides the Ugly Truth

FDA corruption is why the ineffectiveness of the vaccines is still hidden from the public.

The COVID vaccines don’t work. The need for annual (or semi-annual) boosters should make that clear enough. If not, then the experience on the ground with highly vaccinated populations should be all the proof anyone needs. Alex Berenson wrote the following about transmission in Israel:

A reader tipped me to this fascinating paper in a peer-reviewed journal about a Covid outbreak in Israel that began in mid-July, just as vaccine failure was accelerating there.

 

The paper, published in Eurosurveillance, a journal published by the European Centers for Disease Control, explains that the outbreak rapidly spread among both patients and staff of the hospital’s dialysis unit, the Covid-19 ward, and other wards. At the time, 238 out of 248 of exposed patients and staff had been fully vaccinated with Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine.

 

Ultimately, 39 out of the 238 exposed vaccinated people (16 percent) were infected, along with 3 out of 10 unvaccinated people – a difference that doesn’t reach statistical significance because the unvaccinated group is too small.

 

Of the infected, 23 were patients and 19 staff. The staff all recovered quickly. But five patients died and another nine had severe or critical cases. All were vaccinated. The two unvaccinated infected patients both had mild cases.

 

As the authors explained:

 

“This communication… challenges the assumption that high universal vaccination rates will lead to herd immunity and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks… In the outbreak described here, 96.2% of the exposed population was vaccinated. Infection advanced rapidly (many cases became symptomatic within 2 days of exposure), and viral load was high.”

This situation is proving out the same everywhere. Vaccines do not reduce transmission and simply don’t help much, while carrying high rates of adverse affects.

All this effort, risk, and expense to control a disease which has a better than 99% survival rate for almost every age bracket. The situation is almost surreal. But even as the official COVID “narrative” breaks down, the vaccine mandates continue to expand and COVID mitigation measures (which have failed already in the past) continue to proliferate – all pushed by the FDA and the CDC. The mitigation measures, such as masking children in school, don’t actually help anyone’s health, but they do keep everyone aware that a “pandemic” is happening, thus preserving the “state of emergency” beneficial to so many powerful interests.

Besides pushing useless vaccines and whipping up as much hysteria as possible, the FDA is also busy hiding / down-playing the massive side effects of the COVID “vaccines.” The FDA claims the Pfizer shot is safe and effective enough to warrant a third booster for certain groups. According to a retrospective study by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 1 in 1,000 mRNA injections (Pfizer and Moderna) have resulted in myopericarditis, i.e., inflammation of the heart or heart sack, within one month of the shot, although symptom onset typically occurred within days.

The study was posted on the preprint server medRxiv September 16, 2021, the day before the FDA voted “yes” on boosters for the elderly and certain high-risk groups. As explained by the authors:

Results: 32 patients were identified over the period of interest. Eighteen patients were diagnosed with myocarditis; 12 with myopericarditis; and 2 with pericarditis alone. The median age was 33 years (18-65 years). The sex ratio was 2 females to 29 males. In 5 cases, symptoms developed after only a single dose of mRNA vaccine. In 27 patients, symptoms developed after their second dose of. Median time between vaccine dose and symptoms was 1.5 days …

 

Incidence of myopericarditis overall was approximately 10 cases for every 10,000 inoculations. This is the largest series in the literature to clearly relate the temporal relationship between mRNA COVID vaccination, symptoms and CMR findings.”

What else is the government / Pharma / media complex hiding in plain site? Plenty. In a September 18, 2021, interview with The Covexit podcast, Jessica Rose, Ph.D., who holds degrees in applied mathematics, immunology, computational biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, discussed what the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) data tell us about the safety of the COVID shots. Here are some of the most important points from her presentation:

• Between 2011 and 2020, the number of VAERS reports ranged between 25,408 and 49,412 for all vaccines. In 2021, with the rollout of the COVID shots, the number of VAERS reports have shot up to 521,667, as of September 3, 2021, for the COVID shots alone.
• Between 2011 and 2020, the total number of deaths reported to VAERS ranged between 120 and 183. In 2021, as of September 3, the reported death toll had shot up to 7,662.
• Cardiovascular, neurological and immunological adverse events are all being reported at rates never before seen.
• The estimated under-reporting factor (URF) is 31. Using this URF, the death toll from COVID shots is calculated to be 205,809 as of August 27, 2021; Bell’s palsy 81,747; herpes zoster infection 149,017; paresthesia 305,660; breakthrough COVID 365,955; myalgia 528,457; life threatening events 230,113; permanent disabilities 212,691; birth defects 7,998.
• If there’s no causal relationship between the shots and adverse events, we would expect side effects to occur at any given point between the vaccination date and symptom onset. This is not what we’re seeing. Death, for example, dramatically spikes within the first few days post-injection, and rapidly falls off after day 10.
• The Bradford Hill Criteria for causation are all satisfied. This includes but is not limited to strength of effect size, reproducibility, specificity, temporality, dose-response relationship, plausibility, coherence and reversibility.

Why aren’t they concerned about safety when more than half a million side effect reports have been filed? How can nearly 15,000 reported deaths not set off emergency alarms and cause in-depth investigations? As noted by Rose in her video, 50 deaths have historically been the cutoff point at which a vaccine is pulled. How did we get here, so far beyond any reasonable threshold?

At what point will we admit that the foxes have gained control of the henhouse?

If nothing else, the statistics on vaccine-refusal among health care workers should give thinking people pause. An estimated 25% to 30% of health care workers and medical doctors are refusing the COVID shots. These are the people who have been caring for patients with COVID for the past 19 months. They are also, significantly, the people caring the vaccine injured. And they are more and more speaking out about what they have seen. See examples of nurses discussing hiding of vaccine injuries and lack of efficacy here, here, here, and here.

While the current opposition of Southwest pilots to vaccine mandates is heartening and necessary, they cannot be allowed to fight alone. The citizens of the United States are being abused by a public / private partnership which in any other country would be labeled what it is – fascism. The uprising has started among pilots, we must keep expanding it! As founder Benjamin Franklin once remarked on the American Revolution, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Irene, member of the Greek Archdiocese and health care professional with over 20 years experience in practice and clinical education.

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