Big Pharma and Covid has no immediate relevance to homeopathy, but as August is a holiday month, I thought I would share some interesting material elsewhere from the world of medicine.
Dr Aseem Malhotra is a consultant cariologist working in London. He has spoken out about the lack of transparency regarding the safety of the mRNA vaccines. Though a ‘believer’ during the early days of the pandemic, he now concludes that commercial and not health interests were dominant.
Through his cardiology networks he is now all too aware of the increase in heart disease since the wide spread introduction of novel mRNA techology. He is certainly not alone and a year ago posted a blog about a group of physicians making representations to the ongoing enquiry into the pandemic.
Needless to say some bricks come his way, as a quick Google search shows. But he has not been cowed and the broadsheets are now taking note
He has recently received a Global Health Award at an event hosted by the House of Commons. His speech to 100 healthcare leaders, politicians and clinician attending the event is on his website and linked here.
Following his award, Malhorta gave an interview on YouTube which is worth a watch.
He observes how fear is an impediment to critical thinking. And how governments globally played the psychological card.
If you have not read investigtive journalist Laura Dodsworth’s book A State of Fear, I recommend that you do. I found it shocking how the UK government used a team of behavioural scientists to influence public behavior.
The pharmaceutical industry saw an opportunity, and had the wherewithall to influence governments globally. Emergency legislation permitted early introduction of the vaccines, shortcutting the usual testing programmes.
Malhotra refers to a 2022 reappraisal of the safety data in a paper from a team led by Dr Joseph Fraiman in the USA which indicated serious adverse effects from mRNA vaccines.
But speaking truth to power is no easy matter. Very little has changed. Mainstream media continues to report that the vaccines saved thousands of lives. But with questionable evidence, Malhotra notes.
Your local pharmacy will happily give you another booster jab today. Incidentally, I was surprised to see a booster roll-out in May at a local care home. Given the seasonality of Covid, surely the time for any booster jab is in the autumn?
I agree with Malhotra’s view on evidence. During the pandemic, I pulled information from Our World in Data to create the chart below.
The initial significant wave (early 2020 – left hand side) is not clearly shown as there was limited data collection. The 2020/21 wave is clear. Then, on the right (end of 2021) is the Omicron wave, which substantially marked the end of the pandemic. By this time the virus had attenuated (reducing serious illness and death).
The vertical lines are shown to pose two questions:
You may recall that unvaccinated tennis star Djokovic, was barred entry from Australia at the end of 2021. Meanwhild the Omicron wave breached the ‘cordon sanitaire’ of the vaccine mandated population regardless!
Towards the end of the interview Malhotra expresses concern at the latest health initiative from big pharma, namely weight reduction using the new GLP-1 class of drugs. Coincidentally, I penned a blog on this subject back in June. Clearly, I do not have the privileged view of Dr Malhotra, but I suspect he is fully justified in his concerns.
Dr Malhotra says there is a huge crisis of trust in the medical profession. In his speech he states, “Trust cannot and will not be restored until there is an honest discussion on how the pandemic could have been handled better, almost certainly through a focused protection policy for high risk and elderly, not by destroying livelihoods and shutting down the economy and stifling children’s education; a legacy effect that will be felt for decades.
But even more immediate and pressing is for the medical establishment to admit they made a terrible mistake with the roll out and mass coercion of the covid vaccine especially for those at low risk, acknowledging a pandemic of the vaccine injured, many of them, perhaps some In this room unaware they are a ticking bomb of premature death from heart disease and cancer”
For all its successes the pharmacological approach to health now completely dominates government policy, medical training and delivery of services. It is a sort of cartel, yet health remains elusive.
The resolution is complex. Big pharma may be one factor, but so is ‘big food’ and wider complex social issues such as poverty, education etc.
The NHS Prevention Programme is the current initiative. Of course digitisation and AI will doubtless mark the new dawn, but whether high tech is slave or master remains to be seen.
On which note, I will end with some light relief in the form of a very funny sketch from Bremner, Bird and Fortune from 2004. Plus ça change, plus le meme chose?!
Do enjoy the last weeks of summer.
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Dibden Purlieu, Southampton