On Jan. 13th, Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam resigned from his post as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England.

Jonathan Van-Tam. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

It has been claimed that the timing had nothing to do with the current ongoing car-crash that is the revelations of parties at 10 Downing St. during times of lockdown. Is it just me, or does that sound as convincing as the words, "The PM has my full backing"?

Many MSM reports on this, on TV and in print, have predictably reported JVT's resignation with adoring send-offs. There are a few things they neglected to mention. JVT was not as independent as he appeared. As reported in the Daily Exposé:

Van Tam joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1997 as an associate director at SmithKline Beecham. He then went on to become Head of Medical Affairs at Roche in April 2001, before joining Aventis Pasteur MSD in February 2002 as the UK medical director.

In 2010 he became an advisor to the World Health Organisation, during the over exaggerated H5N1 influenza pandemic. His advice was to roll out a mass vaccination programme to combat the H5N1 influenza virus, and that advice was followed. But guess who manufactured the H5N1 influenza vaccines and made billions of pounds? SmithKline Beecham and Roche, two pharmaceutical giants that Van Tam worked for.