Sell reminds her confederates that “We know that social media is now the primary way that many people get their news, so interruptions to these platforms could curb the spread of misinformation.” There are many ways, Dr. Sell advises, for government and industry allies to accomplish this objective: “Some governments have taken control of national access to the Internet. Others are censoring websites and social media content and a small number have shut down Internet access completely to prevent the spread of misinformation. Penalties have been put in place for spreading harmful falsehoods, including arrests.”254
Like many other Event 201 collaborators, Sell moved into government service soon after declaration of the pandemic.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Sell has worked as a kind of United States “Minister of Truth” coordinating US government and WHO efforts to quash, to dissent and discredit, vilify, and gaslight dissenters. She calls her occupation by the Orwellian term “Infodemiology” which she describes as tracking spread of misinformation (dissenting opinions) and curtailing its spread through risk communication and censorship.255
? Jane Halton served Australia as both Health and Finance ministers and is a board member of Australia’s ANZ Bank. ANZ funds Australia’s large and influential vaccine sector.256 Halton is one of the authors of Australia’s oppressive “no jab, no pay” policy. She was the former president of WHO’s World Health Assembly. Today, she is chair of Gates’s global Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI), which serves the role of diverting philanthropic and government financing toward the development of pandemic vaccines by profit-making pharmaceutical companies. She assured her fellow Event 201 participants that, behind the scenes, the Gates Foundation was already creating algorithms “to sift through information on these social media platforms”257 to protect the public from dangerous thoughts and information. In March of 2020, Halton joined the Executive Board of the Australian National COVID-19 Coordination Commission, which imposed the world’s most draconian lockdown and the most dramatic abridgements of civil rights in that nation’s history.
? Chen Huang, an Apple research scientist, Google scholar, and the world’s leading expert on tracking and tracing and facial recognition technology, role-plays the newscaster reporting on government countermeasures. He blames riots on anti-vaccine activists and, approvingly, predicts that Twitter and Facebook will cooperate in “identify[ing] and delete[ing] a disturbing number of accounts dedicated to spreading this information about the outbreak” and to implement “Internet shutdowns . . . to quell panic.”258
? Matthew Harrington, director of Global Operations and Digital Communications, Edelman—the world’s largest public relations firm, which represents Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Microsoft—agrees that social media must fall in line to promote government policy: “I also think we’re at a moment where the social media platforms have to step forward and recognize the moment to assert that they’re a technology platform and not a broadcaster is over. They in fact have to be a participant in broadcasting accurate information and partnering with the scientific and health communities to counterweight, if not flood the zone, of accurate information. Because to try to put the genie back in the bottle of the misinformation and disinformation is not possible.”259
? Stephen Redd, the admiral of the United States Public Health Service and assistant surgeon general, has the sinister notion that government should mine social media data to identify and collect data on Americans with negative beliefs: “I think with the social media platforms, there’s an opportunity to understand who it is that’s susceptible . . . to misinformation, so I think there’s an opportunity to collect data from that communication mechanism.”260 A couple of months after expressing these ideas, Redd assumed his new post: deputy director of CDC managing the COVID countermeasures.
? Adrian Thomas, VP Global Strategy, Programs & Public Health, for Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, announced “some important news to share from our member companies [Pharma]. . . . We are doing clinical trials in new antiretrovirals, and in fact, in vaccines!” He recommends a strategy to address the problems that will inevitably badger these companies when “rumors were actually spreading” that their shoddily tested products “are causing deaths and so patients are not taking them anymore.” He suggests, “maybe we’re in the mistake of reporting and counting all the fatalities and infections.”261 This worry may explain why federal regulators chose to deliberately maintain a dysfunctional surveillance system designed to hide more than 99 percent of vaccine injuries. Thomas has manned Johnson & Johnson’s Pandemic Response and Vaccine Development program since March 2021.
? Former CIA Deputy Director Avril Haines unveiled a strategy to “flood the zone” with propaganda from “trusted sources,” including “influential community leaders, as well as health workers.” She warns about “false information that is starting to actually hamper our ability to address the pandemic, then we need to be able to respond quickly to it.”262 On April 11, 2021, President Biden appointed Haines as director of National Intelligence, now the highest official in charge of pandemic response.
? Matthew Harrington (Edelman CEO) observes that the Internet—which once promised to decentralize and democratize information—now needs to be centralized: “I think just to build a little bit on what Avril said is, I think as in previous conversations where we’ve talked about centralization around management of information or public health needs, there needs to be a centralized response around the communications approach that then is cascaded to informed advocates, represented in the NGO communities, the medical professionals, et cetera.”263 Edelman boasts that tech is its biggest client, followed closely by Pharma. Microsoft is Edelman’s most important account.
? Dr. Tom Inglesby is director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. He is an adviser to NIH, the Pentagon, and Homeland Security. Like many other Event 201 participants, Inglesby migrated immediately into real-life management of the crisis. Three months later, he would move over to HHS as senior adviser of the COVID-19 response. Inglesby agrees that greater centralized control is needed: “You mean centralized international?”264
? Matthew Harrington (Edelman) replies that information access should be: “Centralized on an international basis, because I think there needs to be a central repository of data facts and key messages.”265