Who Benefits From Flu Vaccines? (More Than you Imagined)

by Heidi Stevenson

2009

Vaccinations are in the news constantly now, and the spin is nearly always in favor of them. As is so often true today, the reason can be found in the aphorism: Follow the money trail. Who profits? In the case of vaccines, it's stunning how wide the web is spread.

Drugs in general are hugely profitable. Making them costs tiny fractions of a penny per dose, which may be sold for thousands of times the manufacturing price. If the market for a drug can be expanded to virtually everyone, then the profits are enormous—measurable in the billions of any currency. Vaccinations are drugs marketed as necessary for everyone.

Vaccines are pushed as so critical to health that it's a crime for anyone not to have a jab. Recently, I read a comment from a member of the general public trying to justify mass immunization. He wrote, "We now have Whooping cough in our public schools in Kentucky and children who have been vaccinated are getting it and dying from it. The disease requires a 95% vaccination rate to not appear." He's claiming that those who aren't vaccinated are to blame for disease in those who are. The utter lack of sense in the push towards mass immunization has become outright frightening.

Obviously, Big Pharma benefits from vaccinations, and is the source of the entire push to vaccinate. With the enormous profit margins involved, these corporations can afford to throw around enormous sums to twist research and researchers into producing results supportive of their products. Big Pharma corporations are enormous and enormously profitable. Even so, they don't stand alone.

News outlets are nearly all associated with enormous corporations:

• NBC is owned by General Electric.
• CBS is owned by Westinghouse.
• ABC is part of Disney, which also owns half of ESPN, and has partial ownership in A&E and the History Channel. It owns Miramax and Touchstone Pictures. Magazines include Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, and Discover. It publishes Hyperion books, three music labels, and 11 newspapers. It has a 43% interest in Infoseek, the search engine, the majority of Sid R. Bass (crude oil and gas), and of course everything Disney, including theme parks and Walt Disney Cruise Lines.