Corona, False Alarm?

Readers of this journal are likely to have formed their own strong views on Covid-19 – as the title suggests, this book by a cell biologist at the University of Kiel and a medical microbiologist from the University of Mainz takes a critical view of the official narrative based on the situation in Germany. Readers who have followed these developments will be familiar with the many arguments around the misclassification of deaths, the flaws of the PCR test, the collateral damage of lockdowns, the suppression of clinical treatments and practitioners, the controversy over Sweden and questions surrounding immune status in relation to vaccination. In addition to all this, there is the role of the mainstream media such as the BBC, which has uncritically rolled out the official line, despite questioning from thousands of health professionals, whose differing views have been suppressed and censored as envisaged in the scenario planning Event 201 held in October 2019.

For me, the situation forms part of a broader paradigm war in health and medicine that has been going on for more than 100 years where the pharmaceutical industry is dominant in every sector, including regulatory agencies, international bodies like the WHO, learned societies, politics and lobbying, advertising, medical journals, medical education and medical research. Governments have given no recommendations on maintaining immune status, but have resolutely driven the vaccine agenda while at the same time claiming that no other effective treatments exist despite evidence to the contrary, especially at early stages in the process – tens of thousands of lives have arguably been lost as a result and as a society we have been locked down in fear. The authors show how graphs and statistics have been manipulated to maintain fear levels – for instance the increase in the number of cases is related to increasing tests instead of using a per capita baseline. It is too early to judge the ultimate fallout of the whole situation, but there is a grave danger that restrictions on fundamental rights and freedom of expression, enforced conformity of the media, and defamation of dissidents will continue, undermining our democratic enlightenment legacy and ushering in the kind of technocratic dystopia chillingly envisaged by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.