What happens if you “rehearse” a pandemic – with institutions that profit from a pandemic? Do you think that policies might be changed? Funding might be allocated? Fears might be amplified? Radical solutions might be “written-in” that benefit certain players? Media might have to follow certain pre-arranged narratives?
If you “dry-run” “worst-case-scenarios” with fictional deadly diseases but write into policy as if it’s “worse-case-scenario”, these “drills” have no other option than to manifest into reality.
Convincing billions of people to buy your product is expensive and unpredictable. But if you can convince a small group of policy advisors, it’s a different kind of game. It’s an ingenious blueprint; selling fear + solutions to governments. The customer is not the person who gets the vaccine or drug, the customer is “the State”. The government acts as the centralized purchaser, distributor, and enforcer.
It’s also far easier to convince that small group when key decision makers come from the same industry, or miraculously find themselves in top-level positions in these pharmaceutical and/or biotech companies after the crisis.
*What a coinquidink!*
It’s what they do, and the result is what we experienced during CONvid, and it will happen again and again and again, until we (and hopefully, the players involved in creating policies), realize there’s a pandemic “regime”; a permanent business plan, that is designed, rehearsed, and then activated.
2021
Monkeypox WarGame Simulation
An organisation founded by Ted Turner in 2001 called the ‘Nuclear Threat Initiative’ (NTI) published a report in November 2021 called “Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats.”
The report states that in March 2021, they partnered with the Munich Security Conference to run an exercise scenario involving a, “deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months…” (10)
Watch on Rumble : MonkeyPox WarGame 2021
The fictional pandemic/playbook resulted in more than three billion cases of monkeypox and 270 million fatalities worldwide.
The timeline had the monkeypox outbreak emerging as a result of an act of bioterrorism in May 2022, right where we are now.
Regardless, the NTI’s report suggests that what is required in a fantasy outbreak is, “aggressive measures to slow virus transmission by shutting down mass gatherings, imposing social-distancing measures, and implementing mask mandates.”
The winning countries in the NTI’s hallucination implemented, “large-scale testing and contact-tracing operations and scaled-up their health care systems.”
- Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats (War Game) – Nov 23, 2021 (11)
- NTI Paper (PDF) (12)
- MonkeyPox NTI Video Simulation (13)
- March 2021
2020 & 2021
WHO Immunization Agenda 2030
“A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind”
“IA2030 aims to ensure that we maintain the hard-won gains and also that we achieve more – leaving no one behind, in any situation or at any stage of life.“
- The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded the world of the power of vaccines to fight disease, save lives, and create a healthier, safer, and more prosperous future. Moving forward, strong immunization systems will be needed to ensure that people everywhere are protected against COVID-19 and other diseases.
- The World Health Assembly, with the support of countries and partners, has endorsed a new global vision and strategy, called the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), to address these challenges over the next decade and save over 50 million lives.
- IA2030 envisions a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines to improve health and well-being. It aims to maintain hard-won gains in immunization, recover from the disruptions caused by COVID-19, and achieve even more – by leaving no one behind, in any situation or at any stage of life. (14)
- https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/strategies/ia2030
- April 1, 2020
Align the activities of community, national, regional and global stakeholders – national governments, regional bodies, global agencies, development partners, health care professionals, academic and research institutions, vaccine developers and manufacturers, the private sector and civil society.
Success will depend on building and strengthening partnerships within and outside the health sector as part of a coordinated effort to improve access to high-quality, affordable primary health care, achieve universal health coverage and accelerate progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- The purpose of the IA2030 Framework for Action is to describe how four critical operational elements enable a successful translation of the strategy into its implementation phase to achieve the IA2030 vision. These include:
- regional and national strategies that prioritize actions for operational planning;
- mechanisms to ensure appropriate ownership and accountability (O&A);
- monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks to guide and monitor country implementation;
- communication and advocacy to create the necessary messaging and reinforce the required actions by all stakeholders throughout the decade.
- Implementation of IA2030 will initially focus on a comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- An urgent priority is the rapid and equitable scale-up of COVID-19 vaccines in all countries as well as collective action to catch up on missed vaccinations and rebuild essential services. (15)
- https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/implementing-the-immunization-agenda-2030
- Jan 7, 2021
- April 1, 2020 Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind
- April 1, 2020 Download Strategy (PDF)
- April 1, 2020 Overview
- Jan 7, 2021: Implementing the Immunization Agenda 2030 A Framework for Action through Coordinated Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, Ownership & Accountability, and Communications & Advocacy
- Jan 7, 2021: Download Framework / Technical Document (PDF)
- Jan 7, 2021: Download Annex (PDF)
Only 500 shots to go… p10. Targets and goals. WHO Immunization Agenda 2030 (2021 version)
2020
The SPARS Pandemic, 2025-2028
- The SPARS Pandemic, 2025-2028: A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk Communicators. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security; October 2017 and published in the Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research on March 5, 2020.
- Effective communication about medical countermeasures—including drugs, devices and biologics—is often critical in emergency situations. Develop communication strategies is through the use of prospective scenarios, which allow readers the opportunity to rehearse responses while also weighing the implications of their actions.
- Steps in this process included deciding on a timeframe, identifying likely critical uncertainties, and then using this framework to construct a storyline covering both the response and recovery phases of a fictional emergency event.
- Lessons learned from the scenario development and how the scenario can be used to improve communication are also discussed. (16)
- https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/completed-projects/spars-pandemic-scenario.html
- Scenario Oct, 2017, Publication Mar 5, 2020
2019
Universal mRNA Flu Vaccine
OCTOBER 29, 2019 Fauci, Specter, and Bright conceptualized having a new outbreak of novel avian flu virus from China so they can bypass the method of FDA approval and enforce mRNA vaccines to “everyone in the world”.
See post “2019 ‘A New Avian Flu Virus From China’ To Enforce “Universal Flu Vaccine”
- Health experts discussed the scientific and technological prospects of an effective universal influenza vaccine. Speakers included Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Margaret Hamburg, former FDA commissioner. Panelists discussed the need for more funding for research, better collaboration between the private and government sectors, advances in technology in flu research and the goal of a universal flu vaccine.
- Oct 29, 2019
2019
Event 201 – Pandemic Simulation with novel Coronavirus
“Mild Flu-Like signs to Severe Pneumonia”
- Live Simulation Exercise to Prepare Public and Private Leaders for Pandemic Response involving a new Coronavirus with symptoms ranging from mild flu-like signs to severe pneumonia.
- The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a Event 201 high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.
- The purpose of the exercise was to illustrate the pandemic preparedness efforts, response decisions, and cooperation required from global businesses, governments, and public health leaders that the world will need to diminish the large-scale economic and societal consequences of a severe pandemic.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) currently has an influenza vaccine virtual stockpile, with contracts in place with pharmaceutical companies that have agreed to supply vaccines should WHO request them. Including experimental vaccine stockpiles for WHO R&D Blueprint pathogens to deploy in a clinical trial during outbreaks in collaboration with CEPI, GAVI, and WHO.
- https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/media
- https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/10/live-simulation-exercise-to-prepare-public-and-private-leaders-for-pandemic-response
- Oct 18, 2019
Browse to 8 min mark to understand why the global media is running in “lockstep”: Watch on YouTube
See separate post on Event 201
2019
A World at Risk
- In September 2019, A World at Risk scenario – WHO/WorldBank – “Prepare for the Worst: A Rapidly Spreading, Lethal Respiratory Pathogen Pandemic” – all countries must be prepared by September 2020, including developing a system for immediately sharing of genome sequences, means to share medical countermeasures across countries, and commit to financing and development of a universal vaccine. (22)
- https://www.gpmb.org/annual-reports/annual-report-2019
- Sept 18, 2019
See separate post about A World At Risk for details.
2019
Crimson Contagion War Game Simulation
In August, 2019—not even ten weeks before the first COVID-19 infections were reported in Wuhan—a war game code-named Crimson Contagion capped eight months of planning overseen by Robert Kadlec, who was, by then, President Trump’s Disaster Response Leader.
In October 2019, the Trump administration held a training simulation called Crimson Contagion, of a hypothetical pandemic originating in china, that predicted, with remarkable accuracy, “some of the exact same scenarios appearing now, including delays and inconsistencies at the state and local levels over school closures, and mandates that most people work from home and practice social distancing, and systemic problems in manufacturing…”, etc.
The so-called Crimson Contagion almost exactly paralleled the novel coronavirus in several respects. It was first identified in China, was characterised by symptoms including fever, and was brought to the US by people who travelled by air. In all, 7.7 million were hospitalized and over half a million Americans died from the Crimson Contagion.
- Also involved in this virus war game scenario was Anthony Fauci representing the NIH, Dr. Robert R. Redfield of the CDC, and HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
- The HHS Office of Preparedness and Response teamed with the top spooks at the National Security Council to lead the four-day nationwide “Functional Exercise.”
- The draft “After-Action” report after the exercise was completed stated that there was “insufficient funding sources designated to use in response.
- The Crimson Contagion 2019 Exercise Series included two tabletop exercises, a seminar, and a functional exercise to examine issues related to response structures, information exchange, coordination of resources, and policy decisions—with a non-traditional lead federal agency—in accordance with the Biological Incident Annex to the Response and Recovery Federal Interagency Operational Plans (January 2017) and the Pandemic Crisis Action Plan Version 2.0 (January 2018). These events involved all levels of government, private industry partners, and nongovernmental organizations.
- The culminating event of the Series—the Crimson Contagion 2019 Functional Exercise—was a four-day, multi-state, and multi-regional exercise that focused on whole-of-community response and policy issues of workforce viability; critical infrastructure protection; economic impact; social distancing; scarce resource allocation; prioritization of vaccines and other countermeasures; available (or potentially available) funding streams or mechanisms to fund the response; and medical surge operations.
- New York Times “Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded”
- Crimson Contagion 2019 Functional Exercise Key Findings Draft Report (PDF Obtained by the NY Times) (23)
- Tabletop to Reality – How Crimson Contagion Became COVID 19 YouTube (the health workers can’t believe how the simulation became real)
- The exercise began on August 13, 2019 and concluded on August 16, 2019.
August 2019 Pandemic Preparation Video “Road to Pandemic” Utilized as part of the US Government’s August 2019 “Crimson Contagion” Pandemic Exercises Co-Led by Chicago Dept of Public Health sent to health workers.: YouTube | Full Video
August 2019 National Preparedness Exercise called “Crimson Contagion” to get health workers in Yuma County to coordinate, synchronize, and respond to a highly infectious disease safely. “Crimson Contagion” is a national level functional exercise that has to do with a novel influenza virus that is as large as the Spanish flu of 1918 that “struck without warning” working through the exercise thanks to technology like skype, zoom, and social media. YouTube
August 2019 Cocopah Tribal Health Maintenance Director Onawa Allen talks about the lessons learned while participating in a nationwide training exercise in mid-August 2019. Allen served as the Incident Commander during the drill. YouTube
2019
Global Vaccine Safety Blueprint 2.0
How to lockstep the Media & Health Workers (Hesitancy, Misinformation)
Vaccine Safety Network downloads:
- July, 2019: Global Vaccine Safety Blueprint 2.0 Background Research Promoting “Vaccine Hesitancy” and “Misinformation” as biggest problem Industry faces. With reports on how “safe” vaccines are and a plan to recruit all the relevant stakeholders in the vaccine-safety-campaign (PDF) (24)
2019
Global Health Security – International Conference
- In the wake of the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, the international spread of Zika, the ongoing transmission of antimicrobial resistance, and the ever-present threat of another influenza pandemic, global health security has taken on a new level of importance.
- Multiple commissions and high-level panels have been held, recommendations have been issued, and governments, international organisations, civil society and private industry have all committed to various initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes.
- First international conference on global health security in Sydney, Australia. (25)
- Global Health Security Conference
- Jun 18-20, 2019
2019
Vaccine Safety Communication in the Digital Age
- In 2019 WHO published the “Vaccine Safety Communication in the Digital Age” report which was based on the findings of the Global Meeting held at Les Pensieres Center for Global Health in Veyrier-du-Lac, France on 4-5 June 2018. (26)
- https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/311961
- June 4-5 2018 / Published on WHO in 2019
If you want to know exactly how they got the world into “lockstep” for censorship and their message being the only voice heard in the mainstream media, Google, Facebook, etc. This is the report to read.
- April, 2019: Vaccine Safety Communication in the Digital Age (PDF) (27)
2018
Clade X Pandemic Exercise
Pandemic of a “novel coronavirus that caused a mild, flu-like disease in most instances, but pneumonia and/or hypoxia requiring hospitalization and extensive medical treatment in a small minority of cases.”
- The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted the Clade X pandemic tabletop exercise on May 15, 2018, in Washington, DC.
- The purpose of the exercise was to illustrate high-level strategic decisions and policies that the United States and the world will need to pursue in order to prevent a pandemic or diminish its consequences should prevention fail.
- To counteract “misleading or dangerous information” about pharmaceuticals, in particular “vaccine injuries”.
- The project team named this fictional pathogen the St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or SPARS for short. (31)
- https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2018_clade_x_exercise/index.html
- Segment 1 https://youtu.be/sJ1x8SlNxj0
- Segment 2 https://youtu.be/-4xiQHv4Y20
- Segment 3 https://youtu.be/QeRAb5JE1Pw
- Segment 4 https://youtu.be/tqa7NHq73xM
- May 15, 2018
2017
G20 Health Ministers | Berlin Declaration
- The first Meeting of Health Ministers of the Group of Twenty leading industrialised and emerging economies (G20) took place in Berlin, Germany at the invitation of Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe for a two-day meeting focused on combating global health hazards and be better prepared for future health crises.
- At that meeting the participants watched a fictitious Health Emergency Simulation named MARS (Mountain Associated Respiratory Syndrome).
- The exercise focused on multilateral coordination, WHO’s crisis response mechanisms and the International Health Regulations (IHR).
- This meeting marks the start of “Global Health” becoming a constant on the G20 agenda.
- The Berlin Declaration came out of this meeting and is a “seven-page final resolution on pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance.”
- May 19-20, 2017
At the invitation of Germany’s Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe, held under the auspices of Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, the first meeting of Health Ministers of the Group of Twenty leading industrialized and emerging economies (G20) took place in Berlin between 19-20 May 2017.
EXERCISE SCENARIO
“In ‘Any country’, a fictitious low-income country, an unknown virus is causing a severe respiratory disease. Due to the pathogen’s characteristics and the weakness of the local health system, the virus spreads rapidly. What began as a local outbreak develops into an epidemic that quickly spreads into neighbouring countries across the region. There is a risk of a global health emergency. The participants will deal with questions such as:
What are the challenges we face in reporting outbreaks at an early stage?
What is the best way we can help Any country to deal with the outbreak?
Which members of the G20 can provide which resources?
How can assistance be coordinated as effectively as possible? In this context, how can we support the World Health Organization?
Are travel and trade restrictions likely to be effective or counterproductive, and how can we avoid unjustified restrictions?
How can the G20 states help to provide appropriate funding for the emergency response measures?
What can we do as the G20 to prevent future epidemics?
FORMAT AND STRUCTURE OF THE EXERCISE
Based on the defined scenario, the participants will discuss the measures required to deal with the emergency and identify solutions. Fictitious news reports and social media communications will be used to make the crisis situation appear more realistic. The exercise will be held in a separate room at the AXICA convention and conference centre next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Only the ministers and representatives of the international organisations, each with a single advisor, will have access to the room. This is intended to create the atmosphere of a real crisis management centre. The exercise was designed by the German Federal Ministry of Health with support from the Robert Koch Institute, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. As part of the preparations for the event, a G20 expert conference involving civil society groups and academia was held in Berlin in December 2016 on the subject of global health crisis management.
- During the G20 meeting of health ministers on May 19 and 20, 2017 in Berlin, the ministers conducted a crisis simulation exercise together with representatives of the World Health Organization and the World Bank. They developed exercise materials for further crisis simulation exercises from this meeting: The 5C Health Emergency Simulation Exercise Package Manual – (PDF)
- Berlin Declaration of the G20 Health Ministers: Together Today for a Healthy Tomorrow (PDF-English)
- “By putting global health on the agenda of the G20, we affirm our role in strengthening the political support for existing initiatives and working to address the economic aspects of global health issues. We support the leading role of the World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agency for health, in global health cooperation. Furthermore, we seek to intensify global action and cooperation in order to address ever-evolving challenges and identify where the health sector can provide leadership and added value.”
- G20 Health Ministers recognize the importance of GISAID – Press Release
- MARS Pandemic Simulation Exercise Background Info (Press Release) – PDF
- See also Video in Overview/Summary section top of this post, from timestamp “45:14” for more info on this simulation and how it connects.
2016 – Ongoing
WHO – “Vaccine Deniers is Science Denialism” Narrative
- Playbook:
- Website dedicated to “Facing vocal vaccine deniers in public debate” which includes workshops (for Member States) and resources for keeping the “trust our version of science” and refers to those who question vaccines as “science-deniers“
- Video “Facing Vocal Vaccine Deniers in Public“
2012 (Action Plan for 2011-2020)
GVAP / DoV “Decade of Vaccines” Action Plan
- May, 2012: Global Vaccine Action Plan “2011-2020” | Archive
- The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) — endorsed by the 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly in May 2012 — is a framework to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.
- GVAP was the product of the DoV (Decade of Vaccines) Collaboration, an unprecedented effort that brought together development, health and immunization experts and stakeholders. The leadership of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI Alliance, UNICEF, United States National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID – Fauci) and WHO, along with all partners – governments and elected officials, health professionals, academia, manufacturers, global agencies, development partners, civil society, media and the private sector – are committed to achieving the ambitious goals of the GVAP. Many more are expected to add their support in the future as the plan is translated and implemented at the country and regional levels.
2011-2019
Polio Outbreak Simulations
- 2021 – Simulation Exercises To Strengthen Polio Outbreak Preparedness in The Horn of Africa: Experiences and Lessons Learnt (Publication about POSE) (39)
- 2019 – Manila, Philippines | March 12–14, 2019 (PDF)
- 2017 – Tajikistan | February 14-15, 2017 (Press Release)
- 2015 – WHO Europe – Polio Outbreak Simulation Exercise Manual (Website | PDF)
- 2015 – Almaty, Kazakhstan | November 17-20, 2015 (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, China, Mongolia) (Press Release)
- 2015 – Bucharest, Romania | October 7-8, 2015 (Czech Republic, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Romania and Slovakia) (Press Release)
- 2013 – Kiev, Ukraine | May 15-16, 2013 (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine and the Russian Federation) (Press Release | PDF)
- 2011 – Bosnia | December 14-15, 2011 (Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro) (Final Report | PDF)
2005
Atlantic Storm Global SmallPox Epidemic & Bioterrorist Attack
Atlantic Storm was a ministerial table-top exercise convened by the Center for Biosecurity, the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network.
Watch on Rumble: [Tabletop] 2005 – Atlantic Storm – SmallPox
Fullscreen – Real Politicians Role Play a Worldwide Smallpox Pandemic. Madeleine Albright Plays the US President. BBC Newsnight Video: BBC Newsnight aired a report on Atlantic Storm on January 17, 2005.
- Smallpox or Terrorist Attack – How would world leaders manage the catastrophe of a fast-moving global epidemic of deadly disease?
- The exercise used a fictitious scenario designed to mimic a summit of transatlantic leaders forced to respond to a bioterrorist attack.
- The event website provides a comprehensive overview of the exercise and access to all materials and multimedia, including Atlantic Storm Interactive, and the after-action report, “Navigating the Storm.”
- http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2005_atlantic_storm/index.html
- Atlantic Storm Interactive (60 Mins)
- Exercise Documents
- Jan 14, 2005
2005
International Health Regulations (IHR)
The International Health Regulations (IHR) are a formal code of conduct for public health emergencies of international concern. They involve all 194 World Health Organization member countries. WHO was established in 1948. The World Health Assembly adopted the IHR (2005) on 23rd May 2005; entered into force on 15th June 2007.
- The IHR constitute the legal framework that, inter alia, defines national core capacities, including at points of entry, for the management of acute public health events of potential or actual national and international concern, as well as related administrative procedures.
- The IHR (2005) has as purpose and scope “to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade.”
- The regulations require that all countries have the ability to detect, assess, report and respond to public health events. IHR (2005) is coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and aims to keep the world informed about public health risks and events. As an international treaty, the IHR (2005) is legally binding; all countries must report events of international public health importance.
- The implementation of IHR (2005) shall be: With full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedom of persons; Guided by the Charter of the United Nations and the Constitution of the WHO; Guided by the goal of their universal application for the protection of all people of the world from the international spread of disease; Member states should uphold the purpose of these Regulations. (41)
- Global Partnerships with all countries between different sectors to build coherent alert and response systems which cover all public health threats:
- International Air Transport Association
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- International Civil Aviation Organization
- International Labour Organization
- International Maritime Organization
- International Shipping Federation
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- World Organisation for Animal Health
- World Tourism Organization
- https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241580410
see also: Tabletop Exercises
