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The pandemic revealed the most cowardly society of all time

By Filipe Rafaeli - posted Thursday, 11 December 2025


Besides asking the manufacturer directly, another MEP put a direct question to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which authorized the vaccines for the entire European Union. Emer Cooke, the agency's executive director, replied by admitting: "You are indeed correct to point out that Covid-19 vaccines have not been authorised for preventing transmission from one person to another. The indications are for protecting the vaccinated individuals only."

"EMA's assessment reports on the authorisation of the vaccines note the lack of data on transmissibility." Cooke added in the document.

In other words, the highly effective message that the Covid vaccines were a social pact was misleading propaganda on a global scale. But for those who pay closer attention to the industry's track record, this comes as no surprise. According to a 2020 survey published in the journal JAMA, the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States alone paid $33 billion in criminal and civil fines between 2003 and 2016 for illegal activities-including fraud, bribery, and false advertising.

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That's not pocket change. But the math works out: "Big pharma: penalties $2 billion/yr, revenue $600 billion/yr. Organised crime increases because crime pays," said Peter Gøtzsche, Danish physician, professor emeritus, and co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration-from which he was expelled for his denunciations against the pharmaceutical industry.

"Patients pay with their lives, as drugs are the leading cause of death. Why are the worst crimes on earth not stopped?" he asks.

They fooled everyone, as usual. And, as expected for something with such a massive scope of economic domination, there were no screaming headlines around the world.

Those who tried to denounce it were censored

To fill the gap left by the major newspapers not exposing the misleading advertising, independent journalists began investigating - like Alex Berenson, former New York Times science reporter.

"It's not time to admit that the vaccines don't stop Covid transmission? The data is clear," Berenson posted on his Twitter in August 2021. His statement was simply true. He cited early observational studies that showed some reduction in transmission, but not elimination - especially with the Delta variant.

The next day, Twitter permanently banned him. The reason given: violation of rules for spreading "false information about Covid-19." Soon afterward, it was proven that the White House had pressured social media platforms to censor numerous journalists, scientists, and whistleblowers who pointed out that the vaccine propaganda was misleading.

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Let me put this in the proper perspective here. In the United States, freedom of speech is so deeply rooted in society that, in the name of that principle, they tolerate people marching down the street carrying Nazi flags. In other words, in the US you can walk around with one of those flags in public, but you cannot point out that there is misleading advertising about a pharmaceutical product. That crosses the line. That's unacceptable, you know?

Possible meager reduction in the short term

By mid-2022, the Lancet was already publishing that the efficacy of the pediatric Covid vaccine against symptomatic infection dropped to a pathetic 21% after little more than a month from administration. And even then, it was without proving that the reduction in symptomatic infection actually translated into reduced disease transmission.

At the very end of 2022, Vinay Prasad, a renowned professor at the University of California, published an important study in the BMJ - one of the world's most prestigious medical journals. The study addressed the ethics of coercing low-risk young people (in terms of Covid-19 mortality) to take the Covid-19 vaccines through vaccine passports in schools and universities. His conclusion was alarming: the risk of a young person being hospitalized due to vaccine side effects was higher than the risk of being hospitalized from a possible Covid-19 infection.

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This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It was first published by Brownstone Institute.

 



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Filipe Rafaeli is a filmmaker, a four-time Brazilian aerobatics champion, and a human rights activist. He writes about the pandemic on his Substack and has articles published in France Soir, from France, and Trial Site News, from USA.

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