As the Post’s reporter summarized:
The simulation mixed details of past disasters with fictional elements to force government officials and experts to make the kinds of key decisions they could face in a real pandemic. It was a tense day. The exercise was inspired in part by the troubled response to the Ebola epidemic of 2014. Unlike Ebola, “which spreads through direct contact and bodily fluids,” this latest “was a flulike respiratory virus, which would spread far more easily from person to person through coughing and sneezing . . .”
In the exercise, schools closed, the demand for surgical masks and respirators far exceeded supply, and hospitals in the United States were quickly overwhelmed.” Among the “difficult questions”: “An entry ban on flights from other countries?” “Who should get the vaccines first?”218
It’s noteworthy that none of the Hopkins simulations contemplate the efficacy of repurposed medications to mitigate or end the pandemic. And none of them allow for soul-searching about the abolition of constitutional rights and the wholesale destruction of America’s political and judicial systems in favor of a tyrannical medical and military junta. None of them recognize that there is no pandemic exception in the United States Constitution. Instead, they were too busy war-gaming a high-level mutiny against American democracy.
All of the Hopkins simulation stories end with the same affirmations: the advisability of militarized police state response and the dire need for broadly deployable mRNA vaccines upon which Gates and Fauci had already invested billions of dollars: “Players underscored the need for the United States to ‘go from bug to drug’ faster.”219
And each simulation highlighted the so-called “need” to quarantine and isolate the healthy, censor criticism of the Gates/Fauci vaccines and coerce the population into receiving vaccines rushed into distribution, all in opposition to logic, common sense, and previous public health practices.
Hopkins Center Director Tom Inglesby explained that the event’s immediate purpose was to “provide experiential learning” for new decision makers in the Trump Administration.220 Of course, the event’s embedded press corps lauded Gates as the hero of the day—the beneficent billionaire whose genius, alone, would save us from the murderous contagion.
An adulatory New Yorker article, “The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation,” giddily embraced the images of a nation at war with Gates as the general atop his gleaming white steed: “Philanthropist-in-chief Bill Gates drew on models developed by the [Gates-funded] Institute for Disease Modeling [IMHE], a venture founded by his former Microsoft colleague Nathan Myhrvold, to warn that, at our current state of readiness, roughly thirty-three million people would die within the first six months of a global pandemic similar to the 1918 flu.”221 (Gates would deploy his IMHE minions in January 2020 to grotesquely exaggerate the COVID-19 predicted mortalities—22 million dead in 12 months—to justify Tony Fauci’s draconian lockdown.)
Where did the mock virus originate? In this scenario, “someone has genetically modified a mostly harmless parainfluenza virus to kill,” recounted MIT Technology Review. “The fictional culprit is A Brighter Dawn, a shadowy group promoting the philosophy that fewer people—a lot fewer—would be a good thing for planet Earth.” Johns Hopkins pandemic specialist Eric Toner created the scenario after carrying out “meticulous research to come up with a plausible threat using real virology and epidemiological models. The result was so realistic that the organizers chose not to present too many details.”222
A clear strategic objective for Gates and Fauci was the repetition of the message that a global pandemic was inevitable, that only mandatory vaccines could avert catastrophe, and that obliteration of civil rights will be required. Most astonishing was their capacity to mobilize the obliging global media to uncritically swallow and promote these propositions in complete contradiction of all previously accepted science and history.
That same month, PBS’s NewsHour—once revered as the most incorruptible of all US television media—ran an adoring feature on Dr. Fauci prominently, touting the need for a universal flu vaccine in a two-part report on “Why another flu pandemic is likely just a matter of when.”
PBS cut to a tour of Fauci’s Vaccine Research Center with Dr. Barney Graham, coinventor of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine. In the next segment, the PBS reporter asked Dr. Fauci about “a shot to protect against all known and unknown strains of the [flu] virus.” Dr. Fauci replied: “Several years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to give you even an approximation of when that would be, because the science wasn’t giving us the clues that we could actually do that. Now with these exquisite techniques of structure-based vaccine design, I think we are in shooting distance.”223 Dr. Fauci continued, “We have got to be able to have something that, when a new pandemic virus emerges, we already have something on the shelf to do something about it, something that you could make and it would be useable so that, when you stockpile it, it really is a stockpile.”224
The show was functionally an infomercial for Moderna and mRNA vaccines. PBS didn’t mention that Dr. Fauci’s NIAID had pumped massive funding into Moderna’s vaccine or that NIAID claimed patent rights and stood to profit handsomely from its approval. Nor did PBS acknowledge that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had previously given PBS NewsHour millions of dollars,225 or that, by 2019, Gates had also bet millions on Moderna’s mRNA vaccine. Gates owns a substantial equity stake in the company.
In September 2019, the Gates-funded John Hopkins Center for Health Security followed up on its Clade X event by issuing an eighty-four-page report, “Preparedness for A High-Impact Respiratory Pathogen Epidemic.” The report focused on the only end point that seemed to really concern Gates—the Gates/Fauci mRNA vaccine project. If there was any doubt that pushing mRNA vaccine was the entire purpose of the exercise, the white paper cleared that up. The Clade X summary called for making the top priority of all government, media, and biosecurity players the coordinated drive for:
R&D aimed at rapid vaccine development for novel threats and distributed surge manufacturing. . . . Nucleic acid (RNA and DNA)–based vaccines are widely seen as highly promising and potentially rapid vaccine development pathways, though they have not yet broken through with licensed products.226