China Smothers Coronavirus as West Continues Hyperbole for Big
Pharma Gain
March 19th, 2020 Jesus Christ ✝
There are firm indications that
China has won its battle in suppressing the coronavirus, with daily cases in
the country reduced to low double digit numbers. On 8 March 2020, a mere 40 new
reports of coronavirus were recorded in China during that day, while on 16
March just 21 fresh cases were detected.
A month before, about two thousand people in China had reportedly contracted the
illness each day for a week (1). The dramatic drop in coronavirus cases must
surely rank as a remarkable achievement on Beijing’s part, in a country with
1.4 billion people. In all, just over 80,000 Chinese citizens have been
infected with the illness, with 3,200 dying. That a highly infectious and
dangerous malady is being contained in the world’s most populace country,
should provide a reality check to those recklessly hyping up this disease in
the West.
One
would be hoping for too much it seems. If anything, the Western coronavirus
frenzy has actually increased in intensity with a “global recession” imminently
forecast, in which the public will again bear the brunt of costs.
German
leader Angela
Merkel last week relayed the outlandish claim that “60% to
70% of the population” in Germany could become infected with the coronavirus in
the time ahead (2). This equates to between 49 million to 58 million Germans.
Yet in China, where over 800 million people reside in urban areas, a minuscule
fraction of 1% of that country’s entire population have contracted the ailment.
The
coronavirus has now spread to more than 160 nations, and counting, on six
different continents (3). These apparently stark figures do not reveal anything
like the complete picture, however. If by analysing China through their
containment of the illness after just over two months, so the affluent
countries such as in Europe should suppress it too in the weeks ahead.
There
are at present around 200,000 coronavirus infections reported worldwide, with
8,000 deaths occurring as a consequence of the illness. A week ago (11 March),
there were 126,000 coronavirus cases globally with just under 5,000 deceased
(4). Now China no longer holds the majority of all infections.
Outside
of China, current figures show that easily the worst affected countries are
Italy (32,000 cases, 2,500 deaths), Iran (16,500 cases, 1,000 deaths) and Spain
(12,000 cases, 550 deaths).
Globally
it cannot be called an explosion in cases. With a human population of almost
eight billion, this represents a gradual rise rather than an exponential one,
regardless of the hyperbole. Numbers of coronavirus “active cases”, that is
those currently infected, is around 110,000 as things stand – with over 80,000
people having recovered from the disease, most of them Chinese residents.
One
great danger could be that if the coronavirus takes hold in an impoverished
continent like Africa, where millions endure underlying illnesses like
HIV/AIDS, it may well in that instance inflict a heavy death toll. The
population of Africa is 1.3 billion and, as of yet, about a dozen African
nations have recorded low infections of the coronavirus. These are mostly
occurring in the continent’s richer far north, such as in Algeria and Egypt.
Altogether
the number of coronavirus cases remains very low, once more constituting a
small percentage of 1% of all humans. The coronavirus does not come close to
what can be classed as a “pandemic”, even based on the most up-to-date
statistics. A pandemic is a disease “affecting an exceptionally high proportion
of the population” worldwide, confirmed by any good dictionary.
To
provide some perspective to the coronavirus, there were approximately 10
million tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2018, with 1.5 million TB deaths
noted that year.
The
coronavirus has not spread to a large proportion of the population in a single
country on earth, let alone in high percentages around the world. This reality
seems to have eluded the World Health Organisation (WHO), media conglomerates
and politicians.
The
mainstream press have significant vested interests in fanning the flames of
coronavirus frenzy. In the US, almost every major media outlet has had drug
company representatives sitting in their boardrooms. The American writer and
lawyer Mike Papantonio noted that,
“These
gigantic media corporations aren’t going to do anything to threaten their
relationship with big advertisers. Drugs are cash cow advertising bonanza for
corporate media”. (5)
Officially,
around 100 deaths in the US have so far been designated to coronavirus; the
true figure is quite likely higher, as a result of potentially misdiagnosed
cases; combined with the fact that millions of Americans have no health
insurance and avoid seeing doctors, due to high prices.
Elsewhere,
the mass media are warning about the possibility of “tens of thousands” of
deaths from coronavirus in a small western European nation like Ireland, which
has a population of five million (6). Just two fatalities are presently
attributed to the coronavirus in Ireland.
The
WHO has had a pivotal role in overplaying the coronavirus, a similar scenario
to a decade ago with their hyping up of the swine flu outbreak. WHO swine flu
guidelines were drafted by scientists on the payroll of big pharma such as
Roche, a multinational healthcare company headquartered in Switzerland.
In
2005, a landmark change took place with the WHO, when its financial policy was
altered so as to accept private funding, as an in-depth study reveals (7).
Prior to 2005, the WHO was funded solely by member states, but such strategies
have since shifted. By 2015, more than half of the WHO’s annual budget
consisted of money provided through private sources, including funds from
extremely influential corporate bosses like Bill Gates, one of the world’s
richest people. Indeed, Gates has dispensed with over a billion dollars to the
WHO.
Over
these past 15 years, the WHO has sunk deeper into the pockets of big pharma.
During the recent opioid epidemic in America, it was reported that the WHO
recommended addictive prescription opioids endorsed by big US pharmaceutical
companies, like Purdue Pharma. The WHO’s “guidelines on treating pain were
directly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, including a set of
directions for prescribing powerful painkillers that appear to have been taken
from the opioid giant, Purdue Pharma”. (8)
Regarding
the coronavirus, the WHO’s suspect and erroneous declaration of a pandemic is
manna from heaven to big pharma. The experienced investigative journalist,
Gerald Posner, remarked that
“Pharmaceutical
companies view Covid-19 [coronavirus] as a once-in-a-lifetime business
opportunity”.
The
WHO was aware prior to its exaggeration of the 2009-2010 swine flu, that this
ailment was of an overall mild nature, and represented no threat to humanity.
It was discovered that five researchers involved in advising the WHO were paid
€7 million from the vaccine industry (9). Many governments bought drugs and
vaccines from big pharma on a huge scale, providing billions of dollars in
profits for them.
The
WHO is a highly influential world body. More than half of our globe’s populace
is influenced by advice put forth by it. About 350 million patients have been
receiving medical treatment with drugs at least partly based on WHO
recommendations. Many of the drugs listed in the WHO directories “are
dangerous, often harmful, and without significant beneficial effects for the
patient”. (10)
The
tentacles of big pharma stretches far and wide. Large sums of corporate money
are dangled in front of scientists, professors and academics, with those who
accept such offers providing apparent authenticity to policies favoured by
pharmaceuticals.
Corporations
are institutionalised to create as much wealth as possible, and as quickly as
possible. This is incompatible with the production of cheap and effective drugs
to patients who need them, so the latter people inevitably suffer, particularly
in third world and developing countries.
On
closer inspection, it may not be surprising that establishment centres are
overestimating the threat of coronavirus. The pharmaceutical industry is
comprised of some of the world’s biggest corporations, such as Johnson & Johnson,
Pfizer, Merck & Co and Bayer.
The
former three companies are headquartered in America, and the fourth one
mentioned, Bayer, is a big pharma operation based in Leverkusen, Germany.
Chancellor Merkel has warmly praised Bayer in the past; and she was present as
a “guest of honour” at the 150th anniversary of Bayer’s founding in 2013 where,
in the presence of senior executives, she said that, “The name Bayer has a
permanent place in the history of German industry”.
In
March 2018 Merkel appointed a former pharmaceutical lobbyist, Jens Spahn, to
the position of German health minister. Like virtually all governments in the
first world, Merkel’s administration is heavily influenced by the demands of big
business, and she has refused to challenge lobbying in Germany. (11)
Merkel’s
announcement, that the majority of Germans could become infected with the
coronavirus, was based on zero evidence – but her words will have been music to
the ears of pharmaceutical companies like Bayer.
In
Britain, successive Conservative governments have had a direct part in
supporting big pharma over the basic requirements of patients. With drug prices
at costly levels, London has been at the spearhead of blocking efforts to tackle
the sinister workings of the pharmaceutical industry, enjoying critical help
from Merkel’s cabinet. (12)
Most
big pharma companies are of course centred in the United States. Each year,
American drug companies spend around $6 billion on advertisements, which are
aired through the mass media and television networks. Between 1997 and 2016,
total US spending on prescription drugs climbed from $116 billion to $321
billion, a major boost to pharmaceuticals.
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Shane Quinn obtained an honors journalism
degree. He is interested in writing primarily on foreign affairs, having
been inspired by authors like Noam Chomsky. He is a frequent
contributor to Global Research.
Notes
1 Worldometer,
World/Countries/China, 17 March 2020, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/
2 The Local, “Merkel warns
Germany ‘up to 70 percent of country could become infected’, 11 March
2020, https://www.thelocal.de/20200311/60-to-70-percent-of-germany-could-be-infected-with-coronavirus-says-merkel
3 The Conversation, “Why are
there so few coronavirus cases in Russia and Africa?”, 17 March 2020, https://theconversation.com/why-are-there-so-few-coronavirus-cases-in-russia-and-africa-133591
4 Kate Mayberry , Tamila
Varshalomidze & Usaid Siddiqui, “Italy coronavirus death toll surges past
1,000”, Aljazeera, 12 March 2020, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/declares-coronavirus-global-pandemic-live-updates-200311235023766.html
5 Gary Bentley, “Big Pharma
Owns The Corporate Media, But Americans Are Waking Up And Fighting Back”, Ring
of Fire, 11 April 2017, https://trofire.com/2017/04/11/big-pharma-owns-corporate-media-americans-waking-fighting-back/
6 Pat Leahy, “How Irish
politics and society may be reshaped by Covid-19”, Irish Times, 14 March
2020, https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jhF1QLVTmE8J:
7 Soren Ventegodt, Reviewed &
Approved by Dr. Harold H. Fain, “Why the Corruption of the World Health
Organization (WHO) is the Biggest Threat to the World’s Public Health of Our
Time”, Journal of Integrative Medicine & Therapy, January 2015, https://www.avensonline.org/wp-content/uploads/JIMT-2378-1343-02-0004.pdf
8 Katie Zezima, “Congressional
report: Purdue Pharma influenced World Health Organization’s opioid
guidelines”, 22 May 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/congressional-report-purdue-pharma-influenced-world-health-organizations-opioid-guidelines/2019/05/22/4b37adbe-7c09-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html
9 Ventegodt, Reviewed & Approved
by Dr. Harold H. Fain, January 2015, https://www.avensonline.org/wp-content/uploads/JIMT-2378-1343-02-0004.pdf
10 Ventegodt, Reviewed & Approved
by Dr. Harold H. Fain, January 2015, https://www.avensonline.org/wp-content/uploads/JIMT-2378-1343-02-0004.pdf
11 Ben Knight, “Angela Merkel’s
new coalition ‘won’t address lobbying in Germany’”, Deutsche Welle, 26 February
2018, https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkels-new-coalition-wont-address-lobbying-in-germany/a-42745088
12 Heidi Chow, “The UK
government has blatantly chosen to side with big pharma over patients”, Global
Justice Now, 28 May 2019, https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:q_TqMd6VYQIJ:
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