Dr. Fauci had reason to know that this weary bogeyman was a canard. In 2008, he coauthored a study for the Journal of Infectious Disease confessing that virtually all of the “influenza” casualties in 1918 did not actually die from flu but from bacterial pneumonia and bronchial meningitis, which are, today, easily treated with antibiotics unavailable in 1918.52 The Spanish flu that government virologists have invoked to terrorize generations of Americans with vaccine compliance is, after all, a paper tiger.
Bush told the US Congress the country needed $1.2 billion for sufficient avian virus vaccine to inoculate 20 million Americans. Additionally, he added $3 billion for Dr. Fauci’s new seasonal flu vaccines, and $1 billion for the storage of antiviral medications.53 Bush also demanded that Congress pass the “Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005” granting liability relief to vaccine manufacturers. The pharmaceutical firms told the White House that they would refuse to manufacture vaccines without an impervious shield from tort liability.54 The act banned lawsuits against even the most negligent, reckless, and reprehensible behavior by vaccine makers, even for vaccinations administered by force. The immunity provision was a blank check to Big Pharma’s greed and criminal profiteering. The National Vaccine Information Center called the scheme “a drug company stockholder’s dream and a consumer’s worst nightmare.”55 Dr. Fauci arranged for rich vaccine contracts to Sanofi and Chiron to shore up the fragile “vaccine enterprise.”56
Once again, Dr. Fauci’s pandemic was a no-show. By the time it was all over, the WHO estimated that by May 16, 2006, Dr. Fauci’s bird flu had killed only 100 people worldwide.57 As the investigative journalist and attorney Michael Fumento observed in his postmortem on Dr. Fauci’s bird flu hoax: “Dr. Fauci’s recurring disease ‘nightmares’ often don’t materialize.”58 Fumento recounted in Forbes magazine, “Around the world nations heeded the warnings and spent vast sums developing vaccines and making other preparations.”59
2009 Hong Kong Swine Flu
In 2009, Dr. Fauci once again hyped a fraudulent epidemic. This time it was the Hong Kong swine flu. That year, in a classic “bait and switch,” which Dr. Fauci and the Wellcome Trust helped to mastermind, the WHO—by then under control of pharma and its emergent funder, Bill Gates—declared a swine flu pandemic. Three years earlier, Gates had appointed GlaxoSmithKline’s director, Tachi Yamada, to run his foundation’s Global Health Program. Yamada also sat on the board of Neil Ferguson’s outfit, the Imperial College London, which ran the fraudulent modeling that grievously inflated projected death counts from the 2009 swine flu outbreak60 (and more recently for COVID-19).61 Gates is one of the largest funders for the Imperial College London’s modeling center.62 Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist who produced the fraudulent projections, also sat on the Wellcome Trust staff with Jeremy Farrar. There was no sign of a pandemic. In May of that year, WHO had detected some excess cases of seasonal flu, but the symptoms were mild and death rates were very low—fewer than 145 people worldwide over eleven weeks since its first appearance.63 Nevertheless, the agency decided, in secret meetings, to declare a global pandemic.
WHO’s declaration activated $18 billion worth of sleeper contracts64 that WHO—and Gates’s other organizations—had pressured various African and European countries to sign with GlaxoSmithKline and other pharmaceutical companies.65 These secretive agreements obliged signatory nations including Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and France to purchase 18 billion dollars of various experimental, untested fast-tracked zero-liability H1N1 flu vaccines, most notably Glaxo’s product, Pandemrix, in the event that the WHO declared a Class 6 pandemic. Then, just in time to trigger the sleeper contracts, WHO––in a sleazy switcheroo––changed the definition of Class 6 “pandemic” deleting the words and the requirement for “mass deaths around the globe.” “You could now have a pandemic with zero deaths,”66 explained Michael Fumento in Forbes magazine.
Under hot pressure from apoplectic critics of the boondoggle, WHO denied and then sheepishly admitted that it had downgraded its definition in consultation with government and industry scientists. The names of these individuals, WHO explained, needed to remain top secret for reasons that WHO didn’t explain. To date, WHO has refused to disclose the identities of its trusted confidants. There was widespread suspicion that most of those officials were PIs on the payroll of Glaxo and other vaccine makers. According to the British Medical Journal, the World Health Organization’s handling of the swine flu pandemic was “deeply marred by secrecy and conflict of interest with drug companies.”67 The BMJ found that the experts who wrote WHO’s guidelines on the use of antiviral drugs had received consulting fees from the top two manufacturers of these drugs, Roche and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Among the driving forces behind the pandemic declaration was Sir Roy Anderson,68 a board member of GlaxoSmithKline and the rector of Imperial College London, which would play such a prominent role in concocting both the 2009 swine flu and the 2020 COVID-19 crises. WHO’s pandemic declaration forced five European69 and several African countries70 to purchase millions of doses of Glaxo’s dangerous pandemic vaccine, earning Glaxo a cool and fast $13 billion. Sanofi reported €1.95 billion profit on its swine flu vaccine revenue. According to a report on the episode by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the WHO violated its own rules by not publicly disclosing the conflicts among its key advisers when it drew up the guidelines.71, 72
Contemporary news accounts identify Dr. Fauci as the chief proponent of the multibillion-dollar fast-track H1N1 flu vaccine given that year to millions of Americans. Dr. Fauci is “more responsible than any other single person for the fast-track development of this new flu vaccine,” according to a contemporary report by National Public Radio’s Richard Knox.73, 74
As usual, the fawning US media obediently spread fear and lies to promote Dr. Fauci’s H1N1 jabs. NBC grimly forecasted that “Swine flu could strike up to 40 percent of Americans over the next two years and as many as several hundred thousand could die if a vaccine campaign and other measures aren’t successful.”75
Historian Dr. Russell Blaylock writes, “The Ministry of Fear (the CDC) was working overtime peddling doom and gloom, knowing that frightened people do not make rational decisions—nothing sells vaccines like panic.”76