“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.”
— John F. Kennedy
Via Reuters:
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s silence about her dealings with drugmaker Pfizer (PFE.N) leading to the EU’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine contract is hurting public trust and is a problem that will not go away, its ombudsman said.
“We need to hear what went on, otherwise it’s going to drag on,” Emily O’Reilly said in an interview, pointing to the EU public prosecutor’s investigation of the bloc’s acquisition of vaccines and the European parliament’s COVID committee’s plans to hold more hearings on the issue. “So it just won’t go away.
Von der Leyen reportedly exchanged messages with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in the month prior to the EU’s purchase of north of 1.8 billion doses of its experimental gene therapy marketed as a “vaccine.” The contents of that back-and-forth have yet to be made public.
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Why not? It was public money that went to the procurement of a drug that was mandated across the EU to go to work, school, the gym, or even a grocery store.
Unreal scenes in France as people not allowed into supermarkets without”covid passports”. pic.twitter.com/jeSEdkZ84M
— Tony (@_Mrtdogg) August 19, 2021
“It’s the gift that keeps on giving to people who are hostile to the EU and who are anti-vax, because it can feed into the narrative that something is being hidden,” EU ombudsman Emily O’Reilly said.
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You see, O’Reilly is apparently of the opinion that suspicion over secret texts between a government official in a decision-making capacity and a multinational corporation immediately prior to said corporation draining $1.8 billion from the public treasury is “anti-vax.”
