Branch Covidian Advent Calendar, 8 Dec. 2023

When Health Minister Rauch Posts Fake 'I got the flu shot' Pic on Twitter

On 30 Nov. 2023, Austro-Covidian Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) and his social media team went to see a GP. Rauch claimed to have gotten a flu shot, as evidenced by posting the below stuff on Twitter:

The real flu is really not a joke. Thank heaven for the flu shot that prevents to a large degree infection and in particular a serious course of disease. I’ve gotten my flu shot last week.

Note the highlighted area: do you spot something…odd here? Here’s the detail:

Notice anything? I mean, apart from the GP’s awkward left-hand position, the rubber/plastic cap is still on the syringe. This is a staged picture, and the ‘Health Minister’ pretends he’s getting jabbed.

---

Intermission: Notes By Christian Fiala, MD PhD, board member of the small opposition party MFG, and a practising physician, courtesy of TKP.at; translation and emphases mine, references omitted (see original piece).

---

Rauch Lost His Crebility by Staging Fake Vaccination

By Christian Fiala, MD PhD, TKP.at, 7 Dec. 2023 [source]

Austrian Health Minister Johannes Rauch pretended to get vaccinated to promote the ineffective flu jab. On behalf of the pharmaceutical industry? It is well known that Health Minister Rauch promotes vaccinations wherever he can. He knew no bounds, especially when it came to the coronavirus vaccination.

Contrary to medical evidence, he also recommends the coronavirus vaccination for children and has even spoken out in favour of compulsory vaccination, even though he was not yet in office at the time of the corresponding parliamentary decision.

He is quite creative when it comes to achieving his declared goal of vaccinating the population. For example, he concluded an agreement with the President of the Medical Association, Dr Johannes Steinhart, without a legal basis. Following this agreement, Steinhart promised that doctors in private practice would do more to ‘optimise’ coronavirus vaccine uptake in the future and would generously distribute ‘advertising material’ from the Ministry of Health. The Minister of Health has promised the doctors additional remuneration for this.

With these and other statements and initiatives on the available vaccinations, the Minister of Health is uncritically advocating a medical measure without any individual consideration, although he is not a doctor and it should therefore be checked whether this praise does not fall under §184 of the Criminal Code that pertains to Quackery

Anyone who, without the training required to practise the medical profession, carries out an activity reserved for doctors on a commercial basis with a large number of people shall be punished with a prison sentence of up to three months or a fine of up to 180 daily rates.

Rauch Doesn't Even Trust his own Recommendations

Due to his uncritical commitment to vaccinations, it is not surprising that as Minister of Health he is also setting a good example when it comes to flu vaccinations. On 30 November 2023, he proudly announced on his Twitter account (X): ‘I got vaccinated last week.’ At least that's the message being sent out.

However, a closer look at the syringe shown reveals something surprising: the rubber cap is still clearly visible on the top of the needle [see above picture]. Furthermore, the position of the doctor's hand clearly shows that she is merely holding out the injection and not administering it. To do this, she would have to press the plunger of the syringe, as can be seen in the instructions in the photo from the German Paul Ehrlich Institute below.

So it's quite obvious that the Health Minister's ‘vaccination’ is a fake and everyone is just pretending that a vaccination is being administered.

Health Minister Known to Praise Ineffective Vaccines

Apart from the fact that the vaccination campaign was a bad show at best, the Minister of Health is not telling us about the medical-scientific basis of flu vaccination: it is about as effective as playing the lottery, in which you write old numbers that once won the draw on your lottery ticket over and over again in the hope of those exact numbers being drawn again. [best analogy ever heard]

Since flu viruses are very unstable and change as quickly as lottery numbers, it is also impossible to predict which virus mutation will spread in the coming winter. That's why 3-4 mutations from previous years are packed into the flu vaccination in the hope that they could appear again.

Accordingly, getting the flu vaccination right is as rare as with the lottery. In addition, most people develop lifelong immunity to viruses they have been in contact with, which protects them from them. This also applies to the older virus variants that are included in the flu vaccination. Therefore, flu vaccination cannot provide effective protection. That's why those who actually get vaccinated against flu get sick just as often as those who aren't vaccinated.

Seen this way, Health Minister Rauch is actually a role model for everyone, at least in his actions. After all, after the quasi-homeopathically administered but in any case ineffective flu vaccination, he knows that he is just as well protected as all those who have boosted their immune systems with older virus variants by way of infection. Now we also understand the minister's relaxed smile during the prick.

Only one question remains unanswered: did the Minister of Health only have the flu vaccination given as a fake vaccination or did he do the same with other vaccinations?

---

Bottom Lines

I kinda noticed the cap when I saw the picture, and this action was among the reasons for me doing this particularly peculiar advent calendar. What Dr. Fiala is pointing to—and to venture over to TKP.at to check out the references (TKP supports machine translation in case you don’t read German).

Also, because of the above—i.e., people noticing that particular con—Mr. Rauch was forced to clarify and issued the following comment on 7 Dec. 2023 at 7:27 p.m.:

Source.

If you will, you can believe him *now*.

But since it’s taken about a week for the above tweet to be put out, I remain wary. Yes, the administering doctor appears the same, and Mr. Rauch also appears to wear identical clothes, but will we ever find out if the flu juice was in the syringe or if it wasn’t a salt suspension?

Call me a cynic, but these past couple of years have only led me to reinforce my maxim: ‘a liar is never believed, even when he's telling the truth’.