Report Simulating Deadly Monkeypox Outbreak Was Released Six Months Ago

newsweek ^ | 5/24/2022 | KHALEDA RAHMAN

[bitt]

Last year, current and former world leaders joined experts to conduct a tabletop exercise simulating a deadly monkeypox outbreak. And now, the results of that exercise are attracting fresh attention, with monkeypox making headlines after cases were reported in a dozen countries—including the U.S., U.K. and Australia—in a surprising outbreak of a disease that rarely appears outside of Africa.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference for its annual exercise on March 17, 2021—virtually due to COVID-19— and summarized the scenario, key findings and actionable recommendations in a report released in November.

The NTI's exercise scenario portrayed "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," the report said.

In the scenario, the initial (simulated) outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack in May 2022 "using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight."

Under a microscope magnification of 500X, this image depicts a section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus in 1968. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images During the exercise, cases began to emerge in early June and the fictional pandemic ultimately resulted in more than 3 billion cases of monkeypox and 270 million deaths by the end of the exercise, the report said.

In the real world, the World Health Organization said it has received reports of 92 lab-confirmed cases of monkeypox and 28 suspected cases from a dozen countries between May 13 and 22. No deaths have been reported.

[Candor7]

Here are some of the recommendations froom the report yu cited, which pretty much requires a resignatio of national sovereignty of a nation to the UN and WHO by establishing “national triggers” on how to respond to a worl;d wide biological threat.

Hell, we could have 2 or 3 tiggers a year and locj the entore Westernb World down to weaken it whenever they decided.

This whole report was designed by a totalitarian positive set of minds.

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To facilitate anticipatory action on a “no regrets” basis, national governments should
develop national-level plans that incorporate “triggers” for responding to high-
consequence biological events.
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Triggered national-level pandemic response actions should support the strategy of flattening the
epidemiological curve while rapidly scaling up health system capacity to prevent collapse in the
face of growing caseloads. Triggered actions should serve three major goals: slowing pathogen
transmission, saving lives, and improving situational awareness about the pathogen’s spread to
enable effective targeting of resources. Triggered actions should include a range of NPIs, including
proactive social distancing and mask-wearing guidelines; large-scale testing and contact tracing;
large-scale production of PPE and medical equipment; expansion of the pool of deployable medical
personnel and space to treat patients; and comprehensive risk communication.
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National-level triggers should include adjustments to institutional relationships and decision making
processes to facilitate rapid, whole-of-government response to emerging pandemic threats. Decision
making bodies with whole-of-government authorities and information should be stood-up early,
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Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats
and bureaucratic stovepipes that hamper information-sharing should be eliminated. Additionally,
relevant waivers, emergency declarations, clarifications of authorities, and legal determinations
should be identified for each phase of these triggers.
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National governments should codify triggers in plans that are routinely exercised, and the results
should be systematically evaluated to identify and implement corrective actions.
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The WHO should issue guidance that encourages or requires national governments to develop
national-level pandemic response triggers that are pathogen-agnostic and that scale up across
multiple levels with escalating pandemic risk.....”

P23 et. seq.

https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf?mibextid=ATveJy