Various agencies have been running simulations of epidemics, economic disruptions, and outright war since the 1950’s. This is nothing new and it certainly isn’t a predictor of a new pandemic.
In a “normal” world drills make sense.
In our world “drills” become practice sessions for power mad sociopaths—and sometimes they go “live” to the shock of most of the duped participants.
> “Various agencies have been running simulations of epidemics, economic disruptions .....”
Bill Gates III is an “agency”?
Bill Gates is not a government agency. Not openly, anyway.