Thread by @AlisonBlunt

1. Toxicologist Hockertz: Approval of Corona
vaccine is "intentional gross bodily injury” 16.12.2020 snanews.de/20201216/toxik… unofficial translation follows...
'One of the most renowned critics of the rapid Corona vaccine development is toxicologist Prof. Stefan Hockertz.'

2. 'He was director and professor of the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Toxicology at the University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf. In an interview, he calls the rapid vaccine approval "deliberate gross bodily injury.”
- Prof. Hockertz, will you get vaccinated?'

3. 'I will not be vaccinated with this vaccine, which is currently to be approved and which is actually
still in development, because in my opinion this vaccine is not ready. I am not an opponent of vaccination. I have been vaccinated against many infectious diseases that..'..

4. ..'are highly dangerous - typhoid, cholera, rabies, when I was in Central Asia last year on a motorcycle. In other words, I am not an opponent of vaccination, but I do value quality.
- So the development and approval of the Corona vaccines is moving too fast for you?'

5. 'I have evidence that, particularly in the preclinical area, many studies have not been done on the efficacy and safety, and thus the quality, of this vaccine. And I also have evidence from the companies involved that insufficient toxicological data are available.'

6. 'I am a toxicologist by training, so I can evaluate this and I am sure that not enough has been done here to really provide people with a safe product.
- For a long time, there were only press releases about the new vaccines. Now, however, the first suppliers have...' ..

7. ..'published scientific details. Have you been able to get an impression of the data from Biontech, Moderna or AstraZenica?
Of course. We also have to differentiate between the vaccines. Biontech, Moderna or Curevac work with messenger RNA. AstraZeneca works with ..' ..

8. ..'an adenovirus, which I think is even more problematic because that is a DNA virus.
I have, of course, looked at the documentation. I would like to focus on the vaccine from Biontech, because it has also been approved in the UK and will probably be the first to be ..' ..

9. ..'approved in the EU. That is basically already certain.
This vaccine from Biontech is already showing side effects [snanews.de/20201209/tests…] in many test subjects, these are
healthy people, which should not and cannot occur as such. For example, I have a side effect ..' ..

10. ..'report here for a facial paralysis, the so-called Bell's palsy syndrome,and this has already occurred in a total of six people in the vaccinated group. This is a partial facial paralysis that lasts longer & in this case it is not yet known whether it will heal completely.'

11. '- So in this case you would say the side effects are too strong, it's not worth the risk?
The risk of side effects is too strong for me. We are now seeing some side effects and they are already very obvious. We have also seen transverse myelitis with the AstraZeneca..' ..

12. ..'vaccine, which is no longer curable. We had already many years ago with the swine flu, also with an insufficiently developed vaccine, many people who suffered from narcolepsy as a side effect. And I wonder why we have to take that risk again now.'

13. '- Vaccine development with other coronaviruses, with Mers and Sars was stopped after animals died in trials. Why are they more successful with this new type of coronavirus, even though it seems to be more dangerous?
That is not really the case. Already in 2004 - ..' ..

14. ..'that was a publication of a Canadian working group around Weingartl et al., - one warned intensively against such a Sars-Cov vaccine, because it is apparently able not only to protect humans possibly against a serious illness, but can make this illness even more serious.'

15. 'It was already warned at that time against using spike proteins to make such vaccines because of the side effects that can lead to liver damage and also because binding antibodies can be created that tend to make this disease more severe. This shot could backfire.'

16. 'In my opinion, Biontech has not done any clarifying studies on this.
- So would you rather favor inactivated vaccines, live vaccines or vector vaccines over DNA or mRNA vaccines for anti-covid vaccination?'

17. 'Vector vaccines, such as the one AstraZenica is developing against Corona, have been warned against for years because they are actually able to alter our genome through a very simple mechanism.
I would always favour a way that has also been proven in the past.'

18. 'I would prefer a similar approach to the influenza vaccine. We have vaccines for influenza that work reasonably well, with an efficacy of about 40 percent, which is actually quite good. And we have also been able to achieve success with them.'

19. 'I would proceed in the same way as with the influenza vaccine, i.e., grow a coronavirus via the hen's egg, weaken it and inject it into humans. Then we have a known vaccination principle here that I can rely on to a certain extent, we call it reference-based approval.'

20. '- Do you think the novel coronavirus could still mutate to such an extent that the vaccines become ineffective?
We can't rule anything out. But it is known that coronaviruses are more stable than, for example, influenza viruses, which change every year.'

21.Further Qt, '..we don't know how our immune system will react because the infection is being introduced into the wrong cells - the vaccine, after all,is being injected into muscle cells,not respiratory cells.Will that lead to side effects, autoimmune phenomena? We don't know.'

22. Further quote, '..even Biontech admits in their package insert for the vaccine in the UK that they don't know how people who have already had this infection will react to it.'

23. Another quote, 'Even now, young & fit people don't need to be vaccinated because their risk of contracting this disease severely is vanishingly small - even the Robert Koch Institute says so.We should rather give people instructions on how to strengthen your immune system;'..

24. ..'vitamin D, zinc, echinacin and so on. That's an excellent way to cope with this infection.'
Further Qt, '- The EMA, the European Medicines Agency, is now giving in to political pressure after all and wants to approve the Biontech vaccine a week earlier. What ..' ..

25. ..'do you think of this?
I consider that to be willful gross bodily injury because, in my opinion, there is not enough data, neither from the preclinical, nor from the clinical. The clinical trials are scheduled for two years.
And to derive an approval from just a few..' ..

26. ..'interim evaluations against a disease that is only fatal to a small extent is irresponsible in my opinion.'

Another quote, - You have been dealing with vaccines for decades and have contact with colleagues, for example at the Paul Ehrlich Institute.Outwardly, everyone..'

27. ..'there is of one mind and everything is fine.
It is always quite bad when science is determined by politics. I see that now and it hurts my heart. Our most sacred ethical principles, which we have in science to protect human beings, are thrown overboard for politics.'

28. 'Politics governs science - through the Robert Koch Institute, the Paul Ehrlich Institute and the Friedrich Loeffler Institute. Excellent scientists work there, but they are directly subordinate to the federal government. And that's why these colleagues who work there..'

29. ..'or bear responsibility have to do what those in power, i.e. Ms. Merkel and Mr. Spahn, tell them to do. That cannot go well. When politics influences science, it usually ends fatally.'

Further quote, '- So these gentlemen cannot and must not express themselves. How do..'

30. ..'they treat you? Are you seen as a bit of a nest-destroyer? Or do they at least say behind closed doors: you're right?
In the outside world, the few colleagues who speak out, like me, are absolutely discredited by the mainstream media. In direct conversation, ..' ..

31. ..'on the other hand, most colleagues agree with me. I also have the agreement of employees from the Paul Ehrlich Institute, who literally tell me: we no longer understand the world, but we are not allowed to speak out publicly.' ..

32. 'I would like to publicly point out to all these colleagues: remonstrate! You have the right and you even have the duty to do so, even our Basic Law says, as long as it is still in force, that we are allowed to remonstrate if our ethics ..' ..

33. ..'and if our conscience advises us not to do something that politics orders us to do.
- There are occupational groups, especially in the medical field, where there is already a lot of pressure to be vaccinated. How should these people deal with this?'

34. The more people we convince not to get vaccinated, the less social pressure there is. And when I read that over 80 percent of doctors and nursing staff are either critical of this vaccination or even say quite clearly that we will not be vaccinated, then a society..' ..

35. ..'should please accept that. Just as it is obviously also accepted that the journalist Nikolaus Blome, whom I have sued by the way, explicitly demands social disadvantages for all those who do not let themselves be vaccinated. ..'

36. 'He literally writes: "May the entire republic point its finger at them". We obviously now live in a country that allows such inciting slogans.'
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