Insane money. Who made billions from the coronavirus?

Insane money. Who made billions from the coronavirus?

“Argumenty i Fakty”, 15.01.2025

Now, in January 2025, the coronavirus pandemic seems unreal. Panic, queues for toilet paper and buckwheat, restrictions and mandatory “muzzles” are forgotten. Meanwhile, even five years after the outbreak of the epidemic, people continue to make billions from this story, and sometimes it is impossible to refuse their services.

Pandemic earnings

The covid epidemic has helped many make fortunes. Money was made on literally everything: masks, ventilators and other medical equipment, fake vaccination certificates. However, these numbers pale in comparison to how much the pharmaceutical companies that developed the anti-covid vaccines earned.

As a result of the pandemic, the global club of billionaires has gained nine new members. Four of them are associated with the American company Moderna. This vaccine has been fully approved in 34 countries, and 116 more countries have granted the right to limited use. As a result, Spikevax brought in $4.3 billion to the company’s CEO Stefan Bansel, Chairman of the board of directors Nubar Afeyan earned $1.9 billion, and Moderna investors Timothy Springer and Robert Langer added $2.2 billion and $1.6 billion to their fortunes. Moreover, even the manufacturer of Moderna vaccine packages has hit a huge jackpot. Juan Lopez-Belmonte, chairman of ROVI, earned $1.8 billion in bottles and boxes.

The pharmaceutical industry has probably never seen such rapid profit growth in the entire history of the industry. Compared to 2020, vaccine manufacturers have increased company revenues by tens of billions of dollars.

According to Fierce Pharma, in 2020, AstraZeneca’s profit amounted to $26.62 billion. A year later, $37.42 billion. In 2023, despite one and a half dozen thousand lawsuits due to “side effects” that led to disability, filed in the UK alone, the company continued to rake in money from its vaccine, claiming a profit of $45.81 billion.

The pandemic has rained money on all the major players in the vaccine market. Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis — everyone got a fat piece of the pie. However, one concern stands alone.

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A cumulative update on the American bioweapons labs in Ukraine – COVID-19, Nuland and more

It’s been a while since I posted the last update on the American bioweapons labs in Ukraine. This post is a collection of several articles on the topic. Some articles are reposts and some are translations. The topic of the American biolabs has been sidelined by the liberation of Mariupol, and the Kiev regime’s false flag in Bucha – the latter seems to have specifically coincided with the increasing media attention to the biolabs so as to draw attention away from that topic.

As a reminder and food for thought: this is the distribution of the haplogroups in Europe. The R1A and R1B are so close genetically, that a bioweapon developed against the Slavic population would wipe out the rest of the Western Europe as well…


The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation named the names of Western curators of Ukrainian biological laboratories
April 14, 2022, 17:00

The documents received by the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation confirm the connection of the UNTC with the US military department through the main contractor of the Pentagon – the company “Black & Veatch”
Peter Kovalev/TASS

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Unique Russian medicine “Areplivir” curing COVID-19 patients

About 1 month ago I wrote about the first in the world Russian vaccine against COVID-19. And now Russia comes with another break-through – a medicine that blocks COVID-19 and cures patients already infected with the virus. The medicine is now available in the apothecaries in Russia and is sold based on doctor’s prescription.

Here are some of the highlights from the “Argumenty i Fakty” article from 22.09.2020, titled “A Special Tablet: The makers on their Russian medicine against COVID-19”:

  • The medicine is called “Areplivir” and is created by “Biochemist” factory, which has over 60 years in experience of creating medicines.
  • The medicine blocks RNA-dependent-RNA-polymesasys, thus preventing the virus from replicating (therefrom comes the name of the medicine). The virus of COVID-19 lives 10 hours, so blocking its replication leads to a quick cure.
  • 80% of the patients experience improvement after 24 hours.
  • “Areplivir” is taken as a massive dose of 8 tablets 2 times a day for the first day, and 3 tablets twice a day thereafter.
  • 80% of the patients are cured after 5 days with no side-effects. The treatment is prescribed to last for 10 days, totaling 70 tablets.
  • The efficiency of “Areplivir” is 98%. Patients in medium to heavy conditions were participating in the clinical trials, and none of the patients died or required ALV.
  • The medicine uses “phavipiravir” as its active component, which has high safety grading with almost no side-effects. It should not, however, be taken by pregnant women and children.
  • “Areplivir” works against other virus types with the same reproduction mechanism: influenza, rinovirus, rotovirus.
  • Other laboratories in the world, in particular in China, are working on developing medicine based on phavipiravir, however the devil is in the detail, and so far only Russian “Biochemist” manages to develop an efficient composition.
  • An analogue of “Areplivir” is temporarily registered in Italy.

Celebrations of the 75th Anniversary of the Victory – Magnificent Fireworks and the Air Parade

Yesterday’s celebrations of the 57th Anniversary of the Victory over the Nazi Germany stated with President Putin laying flowers at the memorial to the Unknown Soldier and the memorial to hero-cities of the USSR – The Brest Fortress, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev, Sevastopol, Minsk, Odessa, Tula, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Smolensk…

proceeded with a grand air parade over Moscow (the main parade being postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic)…

Russia’s mightiest military aircraft buzz over Moscow to mark 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat (PHOTO, VIDEO)

…and culminated with a magnificent fireworks display, painting the sky over Moscow in multitude of colours, including those of the Russian flag!

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President Putin’s Address to the Russian People, 28.04.2020

President Putin conducted today a meeting with the heads of the Federal subjects on countering the spread of the Coronavirus infection. The full transcript of the meeting is published at the official site of The President of the Russian Federation.

What I found especiall enligtening is the last portion, where the President makes an address to the Russian people. This address underlines important Russian values and social contracts, as well as historical roots. It touches upon the concerns with the postponement of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Below is the video of the address from NTV and my speed-translation of the transcript.



I appeal to all citizens of Russia.

For each of us, the most important thing is life, health of the loved ones, safety of the parents and children. We now feel this especially acutely, we worry about our families and friends, and we strive to protect them from a cruel threat.

At the same time, it may – and does – seem to some that nothing terrible is happening. Many people don’t see the threat, they simply don’t feel it. After all, even in Moscow, where there are most sick – 48 thousand people – it is only 0.4 percent of the capital’s population. However, first of all, it is the lives and health of specific people, and there are many of them. And secondly, the risk of further, wider, spreading of the disease has not passed. It is still very large.

Among our relatives, colleagues, and people we know well, there are more and more people who were directly affected by the disease, who were found to have the infection, and who ended up in hospital with complications. Dear friends, I am deeply sorry for all those who have suffered the irreplaceable loss of their loved ones.

I understand how difficult it is: the bitterness of losses, and the burden of fatigue, anxiety, and uncertainty. This, of course, is exhausting, psychologically draining people. Material, financial, and everyday problems accumulate. And each of us wants to exhale and say: everything is finally over, everything is behind us.

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Russian Help to Italy – The Selfless Deed Now, Just As 111 Years Ago

I was initially not going to write about the current COVID-19 outbreak, but after the recent massive Russian help to Italy, and seeing how it was maligned by the NATO-associated propaganda centres, I felt compelled to turn to history once again, and show that this is not the first time Russia reaches out a helping hand to Italy.

Those interested to see how the NATO think-tanks work, there is an excellent analytical article by Bryan MacDonald on RT: How disinformation really works: Activists linked to pro-NATO think tank smear Russian Covid-19 aid to Italy.

But we shall look back in time, into the not-so-distant past of year 1908…

Below are translations of two articles detailing those events.

Memorial to Russian Sailors at Messina

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