Chapter 210: Shadow Government
Compared with the 5.74 million vaccine use, the 94 million vaccine purchase volume is very abrupt and out of line, if this is a decision that infiltrates interests, then just look at who benefits the most in the end, you can know who is controlling and influencing all this. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Edith begins her investigation with Bashelo, who discovers that she has no interest in the matter, and on the contrary, the poor Minister of Health is also a victim and a tool of the controller.
Bashelo left politics shortly after the end of the flu, and the key problem was her serious misdecision-making during the prevention of the disease, during which the Ministry of Health spent a total of 1.5 billion euros to prevent the disease.
Of the 94 million vaccines, 44 million were finally delivered, and another 50 million were cancelled, but the Ministry of Health had to pay a huge amount of liquidated damages.
Of the 44 million vaccines received, the French themselves used 6 million, gave 16 million to the World Health Organization, sold 300,000 to Qatar, sent 2 million to French embassies in various countries to inject French expatriates living abroad, and the remaining 19 million had to be destroyed because they gradually passed the use period.
Influenza A is portrayed as a terrible plague, so how many people have died because of influenza A in the more than a year that influenza A has been prevalent?
Only 300 people!
At the same time, the number of deaths in France every year from the common cold and flu is 6,000!
Looking back now, Bashelow became an outright scapegoat, not only making the wrong decision, but also having to bear the consequences of the matter, and she did not receive any benefit from it.
Bashelo herself is a doctor of medicine, but unfortunately she knows nothing about influenza A, and she has to rely on professionals in her field of expertise.
Edith sorted out who was involved in Bashelo's decision-making process, and the focus quickly turned to the 17 expert consultants hired by the Ministry of Health.
Of the 17 experts who helped provide the Ministry of Health's decisive opinion, only two had no ties to Big Pharma, and the others had financial ties to one or more Big Pharma.
One of the experts, Sylvie von Dale Welf, director of the Liu Xuebing Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur, officially stated in major media that "everyone should be vaccinated to prevent influenza A". While advising the Ministry of Health on the prevention and treatment of influenza A, she was developing a vaccine for GSK Pharmaceuticals!
She is one of the developers of the vaccine herself!
And it just so happened that the Ministry of Health ordered 32 million vaccines from GSK!
There are also two consultants who happen to be working in Rosh, which produces the drug 'Tamiflu' for the treatment of influenza A......
Almost all of the advisors who provide professional advice to the Ministry of Health have similar problems, and they are actively advising the Ministry of Health to influence Bashelo and help her make decisions that are in line with the experts' views......
When Edith figured out the entire relationship of interests, she was surprised to find that this outbreak of the first stream was turned into a feast of wealth by the major consortia, a disaster for ordinary people, and a field for these consortia to harvest huge profits.
From the initial media briefings and exaggerations to the appearance of experts, on all occasions, the threat of influenza A has been hyped up through television, newspapers, and the Internet, and at the same time providing expert advice to the public and providing solutions to prevent and control influenza A. In the end, influencing and helping the government to make decisions, this whole chain is connected.
The major consortia joined forces, mobilized the huge social resources they could mobilize, and won a "battle" of absorbing profits in an organized manner!
After Bashero left the political arena, she also thought about this matter seriously, after all, she was severely pitted, helping people to count money and helping people carry the black pot, if she didn't want to be clear about this matter, she was afraid that she would not be able to sleep well for the rest of her life.
"It took me a few months to realize who really holds the power, whether it's the advisers behind the scenes, they're the key people, and you can be in the power machine for years without knowing who really has the decision-making power......
In the course of his investigation, Edith uncovered more hidden chains of interest: experts on sanitary and epidemiological issues in the French government were inextricably linked to the major pharmaceutical companies. There are many indications that the pharmaceutical companies, which have formed industrial monopolies in the pharmaceutical field through industry federations, like oil and military companies, have formed powerful control groups in French society, and by paying high salaries to experts, they have penetrated deep into the regime and influenced the direction of a government's policy.
For example, France has a special committee that examines medicines that are legally marketed in France. Edith found that almost all of the experts working on the committee had been senior staff members of major pharmaceutical companies. They also receive high allowances and subsidies from pharmaceutical companies in a variety of guises.
It was under their influence that the weight loss drug Mediator hastily passed various reviews and was successfully launched, and it was this drug that caused 3,500 hospitalizations and 500-2,000 deaths. The numerous deaths did not even result in any punishment for the production company Servier, and the matter seemed to be over.
By buying off French experts in the field of medicine, pharmaceutical companies have in fact hollowed out the actual administrative power of the French government's Ministry of Health.
As the investigation deepened, Edith discovered more terrible facts, and she found that the phenomenon was not confined to the Ministry of Health. The same phenomenon exists in almost every other major economic sector, especially in key areas such as the military industry, energy, and mass media, which have a decisive impact on the state and society.
In almost all areas corresponding to the French government, there is a symmetrical consortium of monopolies. In other words, under the superficial governance of the government, in fact, in each corresponding field of the government, there are monopolies that actually dominate the industry, and in fact, they control the entire process from policy formulation and implementation to social effects and feedback.
These monopolies, in the form of conglomerates, are no longer a restriction on nationality, they are often global enterprises that span multiple economies, and they represent their own interests, but they are definitely not the interests of a single government.
Through the means of money and interests, they control the entire industry of experts, so as to set up the corresponding government departments, influence the relevant decisions of the government, and actually act on behalf of the government's power and functions, forming a shadow government that is not known to the public! (To be continued.) )