ALPHA report: a look back at the disastrous management of the covid crisis

The ALPHA report focuses mainly on the management of the health crisis in Belgium and abroad. Divided into 16 main themes, the report aims to identify the actors who played a key role in the evolution of the pandemic and to analyse the decisive stakes: economic, political and scientific. It will be updated chapter by chapter from the end of October; BAM! will return to this subject very soon.

Excessive alarmism, ineffective measures

The ALPHA report challenges from the outset the data and conclusions put forward by scientific institutions and experts. According to the studies used by ALPHA, the proportions of deaths and infections caused by the covid pandemic are said to be much lower than those presented in official information.

The authors criticise the opacity of data production and the inaccuracy of the data: the figures calculated by the mathematical model of the reproduction rate R₀ are described as “fanciful”. This is no small detail, given that it was inaccurate data that led to the implementation of protocols justifying restrictions of freedom and ineffective health processes.

To illustrate its point, ALPHA insists on the survival rate in the event of infection with the virus, according to age, the proportion of the population and the level of lethality. It shows that the widespread alarmism is contradicted by the real figures, substantiated by the ALPHA collective.

Natural immunity, the great taboo

One of the report’s essential criticisms concerns the total failure to take natural immunity into consideration, in favour of the vaccination strategy, set up as the one and only possible way out of the crisis.

ALPHA refers to the system of cross-immunity and explains that it is not based on antibodies but on natural cellular immunity via T lymphocytes. That is to say, the body recognises old infectious germs and therefore facilitates herd immunity, making vaccination an unnecessary and unsustainable risk.

In this sense, the authors propose protocols to strengthen the immune system with natural supplements such as vitamin D, zinc or selenium, recognised by science.

Excessive use of PCR tests

The report highlights the inability of the PCR test to produce valid and reliable data for measuring the evolution of the pandemic. Since the use made of it is not the one for which it was designed, ALPHA considers that the excessive use of these tests causes a distortion of scientific data, thus leading to methodologies unsuited to the health situation.

In this respect, ALPHA recalls the words of the creator of PCR, Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis, specifying that PCR is “a measuring instrument, not a diagnostic method”.

Shady conflicts of interest

On the political and financial side of this crisis, ALPHA does not pull its punches with institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). More specifically, the report questions what is at stake in the collaborations between these institutions and private bodies, and the consequences that ensue. 

ALPHA stresses that these official bodies are executive and operational actors that implement the interests of private companies through public-private partnerships. As the opaque collaboration of private bodies with public authorities is presented as generating obvious conflicts of interest, it is a major threat to democratic regimes.

A sense of déjà vu

The report looks back at the experts’ manipulation of the H1N1 flu. It thus recalls the influence of pharmaceutical lobbies, which led to harmful decisions during the 2009 health crisis. The authors insist on the criticisms already levelled at the WHO in reports by the Council of Europe, the French Senate and the European Parliament after that crisis. These reports indicated in particular that the mass vaccination campaign had been a failure, with numerous cases of side effects such as narcolepsy. Furthermore, these reports had also revealed serious gaps in the transparency of pandemic-related vaccine purchasing decisions.

ALPHA insists on this episode to highlight the conflicts of interest that exist between the experts who advise European states and pharmaceutical laboratories. The report mentions the current case of the virologist Marc Van Ranst, who was already at the time interministerial commissioner for the management of the H1N1 crisis while he was at the same time a member of the Board of six major pharmaceutical companies (GSK, Sanofi-Pasteur, Merck, J&J, Abbot, Biocartis).

The Chinese model praised to the skies

ALPHA wonders whether the authorities realise “the seriousness and consequences of the fact that the UN, guarantor of human rights and international law, is falling under the influence of the lobbies of the multinationals of the World Economic Forum and of China’s ideology?”. The report thus recalls the economic and political interests of a China that allegedly wants to implant its authoritarian capitalist model of society in the rest of the world through an alliance with major organisations such as the World Economic Forum or the WHO.

According to ALPHA, these relations are allegedly based on a powerful Chinese lobby within international organisations and on the admiration that certain political leaders supposedly have for the Chinese model. For example, the WHO, regarded as an unquestionable reference by Western governments and media, allegedly openly accepts China’s totalitarian model of health crisis management.

For ALPHA, the lockdown of almost 3 billion people was supposedly the proof of this exported authoritarian drift. The same would apply to the pharmaceutical lobbies, which allegedly have a real grip on the WHO’s activities. ALPHA illustrates its point with the participation of the Bill Gates Foundation, which allegedly infiltrates the American health system through legal and financial ties, notably via direct links with Anthony Fauci - without detailing its sources. 

The media guilty of disinformation

The report questions the supposed neutrality of the media and their respect for journalistic ethics. Indeed, the recent treatment of news and information about covid has aroused a great deal of distrust. The report accuses the mass media of having genuinely set up an official health propaganda campaign in many parts of the world.

This campaign was accompanied by censorship on social media platforms of any information challenging the general vaccination strategy and the health measures. According to ALPHA, this campaign of censorship and propaganda caused massive disinformation, polarising society and above all creating a climate of hostility and widespread fear.

The submission of the media to political powers is thus regarded as an absolute danger for democracies and the stability of societies. In this context, the report’s conclusion proposes introducing a check on the independence of newsrooms, for example by creating international observatories of propaganda and censorship in the media.

Alternatives are possible

Finally, the report recalls the various crisis management models implemented in other countries. It shows that each management model was based on a specific priority. Sweden, for example, which opted for the absence of strict health measures, managed to preserve the country’s social life and economy.

The report also cites the example of India, where a model of prevention and effective treatment with cheap medicines was put in place. All these examples of health policies show the possibilities of alternatives to mass vaccination campaigns and repressive measures.

In conclusion, the authors of this report set out their priorities in terms of defending fundamental freedoms in the context of the vote on the Belgian pandemic law. The report strongly calls into question the scientific basis of the actions taken by the State and public institutions, even questioning the legitimacy and competence of the actors involved!

ALPHA therefore encourages MPs to create and organise public debates in order to ensure transparency between the representatives of democratic power and the population. ALPHA calls for more control over industrial actors (laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, WHO, etc…), now called into question by the opacity of their actions in managing the crisis.

Finally, ALPHA considers it necessary to ban or limit partnership activities with private economic bodies such as the World Economic Forum or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

This citizens’ initiative is also a direct message to European political actors, to guide them in their democratic decision-making and to rebuild and strengthen the relationship between citizens and their elected representatives. It was sent to all Belgian federal and regional MPs on 20 April, then to all political party presidents a week later. It received no coverage in the press.

The question of sources

The authors of the report draw on a wide variety of verifiable and reliable sources of information. However, in its analyses of the future of the pandemic, ALPHA also draws on online media with sometimes extremist opinions. Nevertheless, by relying on these controversial sources, the ALPHA report opens the debate on the establishment of “a sort of world governance” that would operate through the prism of transhumanism and of a political intent that is “totalitarian”.

This report nevertheless addresses the past and present management of the crisis from a variety of angles that are of direct interest to citizens’ daily lives. The examination of the scientific basis of the measures, in particular, raises essential questions for defenders of democracy, which have not yet been answered, at least not by the political decision-makers who managed and are still managing the covid crisis.

Journalist at BAM!

Below, the Alpha report in PDF format
- rapport-alpha-belgique-le-covid-revisite-part1.pdf
- rapport-alpha-belgique-le-covid-revisite-part2.pdf

Quotations from English-language sources are translated back here from the French.