ECDC Nominates Zero Covid Hawk Dr. Rendi-Wagner as New Agency Head
Dr. Rendi-Wagner is, of course, one of the worst examples of Zero Covid Hawks, a fanatical pro-vaxx cultist, and deeply embedded in Big Pharma shenanigans
From the ECDC’s website:
On 20 February 2024, the Management Board of ECDC nominated Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner to be the next Director of ECDC for a five-year period (2024-2029).
I am delighted to announce that Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner has been nominated to be the next ECDC Director by ECDC’s Management Board. The Board is convinced that her experience, vision and plans will serve the Centre well for the next five years. We look forward to her upcoming hearing in the European Parliament in March,” said Dr Anni Virolainen-Julkunen, Chair of the ECDC Management Board. “On behalf of the Management Board, I would also like to express our gratitude and appreciation to Dr Andrea Ammon for the excellent work she has done as ECDC Director. We wish Andrea the best as she retires in June 2024”.
Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner spoke to ECDC staff after the vote and said “I am deeply honoured and grateful to the Management Board for entrusting me with the role of Director of ECDC. I look forward to taking up the position following the hearing at European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety”.
Each Management Board member had one vote, and the candidate required support from two-thirds of all voting members. The Board members cast their vote by secret ballot. The Management Board of ECDC is composed of one member designated by each Member State, two members designated by the European Parliament, and three members representing the European Commission, all with a right to vote.
Before her appointment, Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner will be invited to make a statement before the European Parliament and to answer the questions of its Members.
ECDC’s press release also links to Dr. Rendi-Wagner’s narrative biography.
The Company We Keep: Meet Dr. Rendi-Wagner’s ‘Friends’
I’ve written about this before, hence I shall quote at-length from the below-linked post:
One of Dr. Rendi-Wagner’s closest colleagues is Professor Herwig Kollaritsch of the U of Vienna, Austria. The latter’s stance on the modRNA injectables may be summed up as follows:
I trust the Pfizer Covid vaccine. They developed Viagra, and he who resurrects the dead may also help the living.
Moreover, Dr. Kollaritsch ‘doesn’t deduce any conflicts of interest’, his work on the national immunisation consortium was ‘supported by Pfizer’ and he admits to receiving funding from Valneva, the Austrian Medical Association, the Austrian Pharmaceutical Associations, Medical Dialogue, Teamworx, the Green Cross, Novartis, and Roche’.
For visual proof (PP slides and the like), see the above-linked posting from Sept. 2022. There, you may also find the following passages:
Dr. Pamela Rendi-Wagner, currently the chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)—which is also leading in the polls these days—is also a notorious Covid Injection Hawk. One of the main reasons is that Dr. Rendi-Wagner is also a licensed physician (tropical medicine, what a coincidence, the same field as Dr. Kollaritsch).
And she’s also published together with Dr. Kollaritsch, as tkp.at thankfully reported earlier this year; here’s a list of 35 publications of Dr. Rendi-Wagner that also include a host of other members of the National Immunisation Consortium, including the notorious Dr. Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt, Dr. Heidemarie Holzmann, Dr. Michael Kundi, Dr. Barbara Tucek, and Dr. Maria Paulke-Korinek (a senior official in the Health Ministry in charge of the ‘Vaccination Portfolio’).
In other words: virtually all medically trained members of the National Immunisation Consortium are tied to each other in many ways, often to funding offered (sic) by Big Pharma.
Dr. Rendi-Wagner is no longer chairwoman of the SPÖ, mainly due to her (lack of) charisma, leadership qualities, and loads of internal cross-fire (see here for details). Since leaving the chairwomanship of the SPÖ, it was rumoured that she might become head of the ECDC, which she apparently achieved (pending EU parliamentary approval, which I consider a foregone conclusion).
Official Austria is ‘Highly Pleased’
Of course the Austro-Covidian régime is delighted about this, if legacy media reports are any guide. Here’s a few lines from tabloid Heute (translation and emphases mine):
Government delighted
Rendi-Wagner, who prior to her role as SPÖ federal party leader served as Austria's Minister of Health, among other things, was nominated for a five-year term of office. The Health and Foreign Ministries have actively supported her candidature in recent months.
Health Minister Johannes Rauch and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg welcomed the nomination: ‘Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner combines medical expertise on infectious diseases and political experience, which is enormously important for the leadership of an international authority.’
We note, in passing, that Dr. Rendi-Wagner’s ‘political experience’ is praised by her domestic political opponents—who, while she was chairwoman of the SPÖ never missed an opportunity to call out her (lack of) charisma and leadership qualities—is now hailed. You cannot make this up.
Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) was delighted with the red-white-red nomination and spoke of Rendi-Wagner as a ‘highly qualified candidate’. In addition to her political experience, she ‘impresses with her comprehensive professional expertise in the field of epidemiology and also has the necessary management skills. I am convinced that Pamela Rendi-Wagner will make a major contribution to the health of people in Europe and wish her every success in this important role’, said the Green Minister.
Foreign Minister Schallenberg [he of ‘lockdown for the unvaccinated’ infamy] was also delighted: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic in particular has put the importance of EU-wide cooperation in the health sector centre stage. I am delighted that Pamela Rendi-Wagner, a very accomplished and internationally experienced expert, has been nominated to head the ECDC. This will be the third EU agency under red-white-red leadership.’
As regards Mr. Schallenberg’s track record, I shall link to this piece:
Bottom Lines: Covidistan Goes EU-Wide
The nomination of Dr. Rendi-Wagner as new head of the ECDC is both a farce and an unveiled threat for everyone.
Austria—for which I used the moniker ‘Covidistan’—was among the (western) countries with the most absurd, harsh, and useless mandates. We note, in passing, that Covidistan was the one (western) country that actually promulgated a national Covid-19 vaccination mandate that ultimately foundered on the shoals of, well, reality—by which is meant sustained mass-protests in the depths of winter 2021/22:
Lest you consider this a purely ‘technical’ appointment, please keep in mind that Dr. Rendi-Wagner is a staunch pro-vaxx technocrat who never had any qualms about force-injecting people with the modRNA gene therapy products.
She is part and parcel, if not a poster-child, for everything that’s evil and wrong about ‘public health’.
That she’s a woman renders her pro-vaxx stance even more contradictory, because she also holds staunch pro-abortion positions.
Dr. Rendi-Wagner’s appointment, in other words, is nothing less than a strong signal that, whenever the next ‘pandemic’ or the like will be declared, the ECDC will in all likelihood push for bloc-wide implementation of all the shitty things that occurred in Covidistan in recent years.
This is a warning, if not a threat, to all of us.
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