COVID-19
Japan disposes $1.6 billion worth of COVID drugs nobody used
From LifeSiteNews
The nation’s health ministry has already trashed 2 million doses of PaxlovidPACK and Lagevrio, and will dispose of 1.77 million doses of Xocova by the end of February 2026.
Japan is disposing of $1.6 billion worth of COVID-19 drugs that went unused and are now expired in a dramatic disconnect between government projections and reality.
The Japanese Broadcasting Corporation reported that the nation’s health ministry has already trashed 1.75 million patients’ worth of PaxlovidPACK and 780,000 patients’ worth of Lagevrio doses, and will dispose of 1.77 million patients’ worth of Xocova by the end of February 2026.
The government had been required by law to purchase enough oral COVID drugs for 5.6 million people, to be distributed free of charge through May 2023, at which point the virus was downgraded to the same threat level as normal seasonal influenza. But 2.5 million, a little under half the supply, remained unused by the time they hit their expiration dates.
The Star added that the value of the destroyed drugs is estimated to be roughly 240 billion yen, or 1.6 billion US dollars.
Across the world, governments took drastic action to counter the COVID pandemic, based in large part on exaggerated assumptions about the virus’s transmissibility and threat to non-elderly individuals without comorbidities. A large body of evidence has found that mass restrictions on personal and economic activity undertaken in 2020 and part of 2021 caused far more harm than good in terms of personal freedom and economics as well as public health, and that lives could have been saved through far less burdensome methods, such as the promotion of established therapeutic drugs, narrower protections focused on those most at risk (such as the elderly and infirm), and increasing vitamin D intake.
In Florida, the first report by a grand jury impaneled by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis determined that lockdowns did more harm than good, that masks were ineffective at stopping COVID transmission, that COVID was “statistically almost harmless” to children and most adults, and that it is “highly likely” that COVID hospitalization numbers were inflated.
Much like the controversial COVID vaccines, concerns were raised about the safety and effectiveness of COVID therapeutics such as Paxlovid and Lagevrio as well.
In May, former Japanese minister of internal affairs and communications Kazuhiro Haraguchi announced he had cancer, and said testing of the lesions linked it to spike proteins from the COVID-19 vaccine he had received two years before.
COVID-19
WATCH: Big Pharma scientist admits COVID shot not ‘safe and effective’ to O’Keefe journalist
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‘None of that stuff was safe and effective. We didn’t do the typical tests,’ Joshua Rys of Johnson & Johnson said to one of James O’Keefe’s undercover journalists.
A lead scientist for a global pharmaceutical firm disclosed on hidden camera that his firm’s COVID-19 vaccine underwent rushed testing, lacked research, and admitted that, in direct contradiction to the Biden administration’s constant refrain, the drug was not “safe and effective.”
“None of that stuff was safe and effective. We didn’t do the typical tests,” said Joshua Rys, a lead regulatory affairs scientist for Johnson & Johnson (J&J), not realizing that he was being filmed by one of James O’Keefe’s undercover journalists.
BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson Lead Scientist Confesses J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Was 'Not Safe and Effective,' Reveals “Lack of Research” From Rushing to Release Vaccine: “People Wanted It, We Gave It to Them”
“Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products… pic.twitter.com/yEeyXy8toI
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) July 15, 2025
Rys explained that normally a new drug undergoes an extended period of testing, including human trials, but the COVID-19 vaccine circumvented those safety measures in order to rush the product to the public.
“This was just, ‘Let’s test it on some lab-rat models, analyze and see if it works,” said Rys, “and just throw it to the wind and see what happens.”
“I’m sure somebody is going to get sued for that stuff, eventually,” he predicted.
“Do you have any idea [of] the lack of research that was done on those products?” asked the J&J lead scientist.
“People wanted it. We gave it to them,” said Rys.
O’Keefe later approached Rys to ask what led him to tell a total stranger that his product was not safe and effective, but Rys evaded O’Keefe and his probing.
O’Keefe explained that the work of his O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) undercover journalists is crucial because, he claimed, up to 80 percent of the revenue cable and other news organizations derive from ads comes from Big Pharma.
OMG is “pulling back the veil on the corruption and lies in our government, in our corporations, in the pharmaceutical industry,” said O’Keefe, ominously noting that the last time he did an investigation into Big Pharma organization Pfizer, he was indefinitely suspended from Project Veritas, the company he founded.
From LifeSiteNews
After a trial that lasted nearly two years, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are scheduled for a hearing in which Justice Heather Perkins-McVey will review their case a final time.
Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber will begin their sentencing hearing next week after earlier this year being found guilty of mischief in their roles in the 2022 convoy.
From July 23 to July 25, 2025, both Lich and Barber will be at a hearing in which Justice Heather Perkins-McVey will go over their case. She is then expected to deliver her final verdict in August.
Lich noted on X that she is “hopeful we will have the sentencing by mid to late August.”
“The Crown is seeking 2 years in a federal penitentiary for each of us and will be arguing a forfeiture order to seize and destroy Big Red,” she said.
On July 23, Barber will learn whether or not his stay of proceedings request will be granted.
In April, Lich and Chris Barber were found guilty of mischief for their roles as leaders of the 2022 protest and as social media influencers. The conviction after a nearly two-year trial came despite the non-violent nature of the popular movement.
TDF also noted that the full 108-page judgment of Justice Perkins-McVey’s ruling is now available online.
As for Barber, his initial sentencing was further delayed. The delay in his case follows a recent update in which he announced that the Crown wants to jail him for two years in addition to seizing the truck he used in the protest. As such, his legal team has asked for a stay of proceedings for the time being.
The Lich and Barber trial concluded in September 2024, more than a year after it began. It was originally scheduled to last 16 days.
Lich and Barber were initially arrested on February 17, 2022, meaning their legal battle has lasted longer than three years.
Despite the peaceful nature of the Freedom Convoy, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act to clear out protesters, an action a federal judge has since said was “not justified.” During the clearout, an elderly lady was trampled by a police horse and many who donated to the cause had their bank accounts frozen.
The actions taken by the Trudeau government were publicly supported by Mark Carney.
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