While the current pandemic causes disease and death among human beings around the world, animals are rarely affected. They can carry the virus but they do not develop a deadly disease. In fact, in seeking to test potential therapies, researchers worldwide struggle to find a suitable animal model in which the virus causes disease. Any scientific experts who do not take this striking fact into account when advising governments or addressing the public on possible solutions to the pandemic should therefore be listened to with caution. Similarly, any scientific effort to find a therapeutic solution to the pandemic is doomed without addressing this critical aspect.

The human metabolism is set apart from that of essentially all other animals by its inability to synthesize vitamin C from glucose. Most animals produce vitamin C in high amounts of up to 20,000 milligrams per day compared to human body weight. Humans and sub-human primates lack this ability due to a genetic mutation that occurred during their evolution. Thus, all humans today are dependent on an optimum intake of vitamin C, either from the diet or from supplements. Vitamin C deficiency, and most people in the world suffer from it, causes a weakening of the connective tissue, compromises natural barriers like skin and the inner cell lining of the lungs (epithelial cells of the lungs), and weakens our immune system. Thus, viruses and many other infectious organisms can easily enter the body and find too little immune resistance to fight them.

Vitamin C in the fight against the pandemic

Most animals produce vitamin C in high amounts of up to 20,000 milligrams per day compared to human body weight.

Vitamin C can help fight viral infections in many ways:

Viruses invade the cells of our body, for example the inner (epithelial) lining cells of the lung. In order to spread, they reprogram the genetic information of cells to produce the biological tools the virus needs to multiply its spread throughout human tissue and ultimately become a manifest infection.

As part of this process, virally infected cells activate enzymes (catalysts) that are able to cut through the surrounding connective tissue (e.g. collagen) like biological scissors. Essentially all viruses activate such enzymes as a precondition for spreading and developing into a full-blown disease.

The natural amino acid lysine is able to block these enzymes and, thus, inhibit the spread of the virus inside the body.

Managers of IG Farben were charged at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity.

Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks and strokes are essentially the consequence of a long-term deficiency of vitamins, particularly vitamin C. This deficiency leads to weakening of the blood vessel walls, similar to what happens in the so-called sailors’ disease scurvy. My book summarizing these discoveries has, over the past decade, been translated into 14 languages and has changed the perception of this major health problem worldwide. Today, the death rate from heart attacks has significantly declined, in some countries by more than 50 percent.

Let us briefly consider what this means. Pharmaceutical drugs that decrease the symptoms of cardiovascular disease are the single largest group of drugs for the pharmaceutical industry. A reduction in cardiovascular disease by more than 50% translates roughly into a loss of more than 50% of these drugs for the investment business with disease – occurring year after year.

Organized suppressing of the health benefits of vitamins is a crime against humanity

The deliberate neglect and omission of the scientifically documented health benefits of vitamins by any politicians in the current crisis is a crime. These natural health options are readily available to millions of people – and are potentially lifesaving for them. No politician will get away with the argument any longer that “I did not know”.

I encourage you to confront your local, regional and national political decision takers with the facts of this letter, and ask them to position themselves publicly.

When we look at the current crisis, we have to ask ourselves:

• Could this health crisis have been avoided by the people of the world having a much better understanding of the role of vitamins and other micronutrients in strengthening the immune system of millions of people?
• Could the dissemination of this information over the past decades as part of public health policies – and particularly to children and seniors – have helped to contain or even avoid the current pandemic, and many others before it?

In answering these questions, the people of the world must take a closer look at the role of the German government and its decades-long effort to ban natural therapies, including vitamins, on a worldwide scale. This effort had only one goal: to protect the export business of German pharmaceutical companies, which for many years had been the leading pharmaceutical drug exporters in the world.

Under the auspices of the government of Germany, an international effort was launched to ban worldwide any preventive and therapeutic health statements about vitamins and other natural, non-patentable substances. Over the past quarter of a century, the German government, via the so-called ‘Codex Alimentarius Commission’, used international organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and tried to impose these outright unethical goals on more than 200 countries.

As a consequence of this unscrupulous global strategy, research and education about the health benefits of vitamins and other natural therapies was systematically discredited, underfunded, and often outright banned in most countries of the world.

With the health benefits of vitamins in strengthening the immune system and in fighting viral infections firmly established, the consequences of the systematic suppression of this knowledge for the people of the world are obvious: The current pandemic could have been largely avoided had this knowledge become part of public health policies around the world.

It is also clear that economic shortages in certain countries, with people having less access to fresh fruits and vegetables or dietary supplements, would massively aggravate the susceptibility of millions of people living in such countries or regions. This can explain why the current pandemic particularly affects countries like Iran, who have been coping with years of economic sanctions. In Italy, decades of trade imbalance between richer and poorer countries within the European Union left this country economically weak and its citizens exposed.

In short, the whole world is currently paying the price for decades of irresponsible actions by the German government, and the insatiable greed of the international pharmaceutical investment business. Based on the above information, the people and governments of the world will now also have firm grounds to seek compensation for the immense economic damage they suffer during the current crisis.

Consider, too, the devastating impact on the local economy of Cambridge’s decision. One wonders what will happen to university catering and cleaning staff. Will they be ‘furloughed’ for a year, or simply laid off?

A couple of years ago we were hearing how Cambridge had the fastest growing economy in the UK. But the likely reduced number of students is bound to have an adverse effect on local businesses. Pub landlords and coffee shop owners in the city, already facing a grim future, will probably be jumping off bridges.

Sometimes you have to pinch yourself that all of this is happening. That anyone is even proposing it. But Covid-19 has been the game changer. It attacks the upper respiratory system, but it has also addled brains. It’s clear that fears about the virus are being used to try and implement radical – and I mean radical – changes to our economies and the way we live, and have lived for thousands of years. But here’s the rub. These changes, which are inherently anti-human, in seeking to present ‘social distancing’ as normal when it is in fact totally abnormal, pose a far greater threat to mankind than the virus itself. And you shouldn’t need a degree (online or otherwise) from Cambridge University to realise this.

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