What a coincidence.
It’s almost like they knew this was coming.
How prescient of them.
“..It’s almost like they knew this was coming.....”
We Won’t Be Fooled Again.
“Prescient” is precisely the word some (so-called) right-wing pundit used in 2020 to describe Bill Gates on the Plandemic; it was National Review or some such. I was appalled by the fawning sycophancy shown toward the left-wing corporatist who practices medicine without a license.
In 2021 there was an exercise done involving an outbreak of Monkeypox.
Exercise Summary
Developed in consultation with technical and policy experts, the fictional exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that first emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.
Discussions throughout the tabletop exercise generated a range of valuable insights and key findings. Most significantly, exercise participants agreed that, notwithstanding improvements following the global response to COVID-19, the international system of pandemic prevention, detection, analysis, warning, and response is woefully inadequate to address current and anticipated future challenges. Gaps in the international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architecture are extensive and fundamental, undermining the ability of the international community to prevent and mount effective responses to future biological events—including those that could match the impacts of COVID-19 or cause damage that is significantly more severe.