Posted on 03/20/2020 5:08:27 AM PDT by Shane
The Coronavirus: Blueprint for Bioterrorism BY GRADY MEANS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 03/09/20 12:01 PM EDT 171
Regardless of the source of the Coronavirus, it is now a roadmap for future bioterrorism. The damage has been quick and enormous — much greater than 9/11 — and worldwide. The responses have been predictable and ineffective. And the cost of a potential weapon such as this is close to zero. It represents the perfect asymmetric warfare strategy, and there should be little doubt these lessons are being studied carefully by military planners in North Korea, Tehran, Moscow, Beijing and desert caves throughout the Middle East.
The conventional, and most likely, view of the COVID-19 outbreak is that it originated in Wuhan, China, near the most sophisticated Chinese bioweapons lab and then proceeded into the world from there, leaving people to guess whether it originated in the lab and leaked, came from wild bats or snakes, or came from an exotic meat market.
But now, or in the future, there is another possibility: an intentional bioweapons attack from a non-state (or, perhaps, hidden, state) actor, and that represents a serious threat that America must take seriously.
ISIS and other terrorist groups long have sought effective bioweapons as the “poor man’s nuclear weapon.” The most extreme terrorists have developed a military doctrine that a deadly global pandemic could kill a large portion of the world’s population but, most importantly, destroy the economies, governments and technical infrastructures of the world’s most advanced economies, and create a huge advantage for surviving cultures with large populations capable of living, or even thriving, at a primitive economic and cultural level.
These non-state (and many rogue-state) groups have access to bioweapon technology; could, relatively easily and cheaply obtain MERS or SARS or other virulent strains; and figure out human subject-based experiment/refine/distribute systems to launch an attack.
A clever terrorist strategy — and our enemies are extremely clever — to launch the current crisis would have been to send an infected radical Chinese citizen to carry the virus to Wuhan and launch it secretly. Predictably, the People’s Republic of China bureaucracy would move slowly to deal with it and then cover it up. It could reach critical mass in Wuhan and spread across China and internationally before there was any serious response.
Terrorists could, and would, go on to plant the virus randomly across the world with additional infected agents. These would be done in small, random patches (i.e., Italy, Iran, the U.S. West Coast, and so forth). It would leave everyone confused and guessing. “Experts” and media speculation would add to the confusion and panic.
All of this could be done with limited funding (less than $100,000 and fewer than 50 people — the fewer, the better for secrecy). The results would be predictable:
Economic mayhem: A little effort leading to immediate, multitrillion-dollar losses for the American market, far exceeding the entire economic impact of 9/11 in one week, as well as economic crises in China and elsewhere.
Political mayhem: President Trump would try to maintain order and reduce panic while the media and his opposition would diminish administration efforts and stoke uncertainty. The Chinese especially would be off-balance because of the huge hit to their economy and the potential political instability, not to mention quiet worldwide suspicion that an accidental leak from the Chinese lab might be responsible, and they would respond with more secrecy and suppression.
Social mayhem: Distrust of “foreigners,” hoarding, etc. Even if the “threat” did little real public health damage, the economic and political impact would be substantial.
It also could be a huge money-maker for terrorists or other bad actors to pay for future attacks. Anyone controlling the pace, location and impact of the virus could short the markets in advance, and, literally, could have made trillions of dollars over the past few weeks. It raises an interesting question: Did any experienced, large-scale, short-sellers (e.g., China, Russia, North Korea) take a huge position over these past few weeks, probably clandestinely? Has the NCTC looked into it?
A Coronavirus attack also could be a strategic distraction for a larger military or political play. For example, no terror group would take credit for an initial attack if, for example, they planned to release a similar, more deadly strain to create real panic and social collapse. “Experts” and the mainstream media would be lost and might suggest the original virus had “mutated,” again slowing effective response.
The above outline has been discussed for a couple of decades; intelligence and security services are well aware of this scenario. Today’s Coronavirus provides a blueprint for how effective a planned attack might be. Our enemies are studying it. America needs to learn from it. Of course, it’s hard for normal Americans to even believe this could happen, which just shows how hard it may be to identify a real attack and react quickly if and when it actually happens.
Far-fetched? Perhaps. But consider this: If the Coronavirus were a terrorist attack, it already would be, by far, the most effective act of non-state terrorism in the history of the world.
Grady Means is a writer (GradyMeans.com) and former corporate strategy consultant. He served in the White House as a policy assistant to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.
WILL CHINA WIN THE PANDEMIC WORLD WAR?
by Matt Bracken | Feb 26, 2020
Will China, the first country (and superpower) to suffer the effects of Covid-19, also be the first country to recover, and thereby gain an overwhelming strategic advantage, while the USA, Europe and the rest of the world suffer the pandemic’s worst effects for a longer and even more catastrophic period?
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/02/will-china-win-the-pandemic-world-war/
and just image if the survival rate was zero. These enemies are mulling over stats and analyzing how each country, especially us deals with this. We experienced the nuclear age we are no just entering the bio terrorism age.
And just imagine an Obama or some other rat a##hat were in charge, waited 6 months like the swine flu and never closed the borders or halted air traffic.
What if they decide to juice up the virus already in effect and its now a death sentence
Thanks Matt, thanks are relatively calm hear on the Eastern Shore. Rockfish season should be starting soon! Keep safe.
Thanks = things! sorry for the typo!
Six feet apart on the boat! LOL.
“I apologize, Goldfinger. It’s an inspired deal. They get what they want — economic chaos in the West — and the value of your gold increases many times.”
What did this Corona ideocy teach anyone that they didn’t already know? Virology has been around for a while. How to decimate or wipe out a populace is well known. Maybe they’ve learned how to promp a people to destroy the economic life of their nation. Ok, I’ll give them that.
Far-fetched is a matter of perspective, imho given there is a Chinese state-owned virology lab in Wuhan (which one can easily argue does bioweapon work for the Chinese government/military), but hey, that’s my take.
But yeah, lamestream tard media will call such an outlandish conspiracy theory, gg. /s
It has already been done in the last few months.
This pandemic and our response should be looked upon as a dress rehearsal for a possible bioweapon attack in the future. So, in a way, this is a good thing.
We ‘re not going to get everything right this time, but we should learn from our mistakes so we can make better decisions in the future.
“What did this Corona ideocy teach anyone that they didn’t already know?”
Exactly.
Since the Rockefeller gang is behind this sort of Deep State stuff generally, interesting that this would come from someone at least at some point allied with them.
But of course we have bioweapons long developed here and in other countries and we have just displayed how powerful they are—worldwide.
Life truly may never be the same again. (And yes, I expect lots of “Chicken Little” insults to be tossed my way for posting this comment.)
“What if they decide to juice up the virus already in effect and its now a death sentence?”
Won’t happen. The intent of bio warfare is not to kill, but to make the enemy not want to fight. People in wars are both a tool and a curse. As a tool, they will do what they did before until they are no longer needed or become a threat within the system. As a curse, at some point weapons will not be enough of a deterrent. The act of bioterrorism can range from a simple hoax to the actual use of these biological weapons. And they are simple and do not require loss of soldiers to deploy.
People don’t always want to argue with aggressors. They will compromise to stop pain. Look at WW I and II. In II 34 countries of different political beliefs fell to Hitler due to force and few fought back during and afterwards. If they are sick, to include frightened psychologically, they won’t fight, they’ll just give up. And then be used to make things work for the invader. And Germany had bio weapons even during WW I, tested on people, but never deployed them. But the threat was always there.
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However, though the coronavirus pandemic may have given terrorists some ideas, it has also set up strategies in the USA for dealing with contagious diseases.
We can be sure that President Trump has already taken bioterrorism into consideration and begun the preparation of strategies for dealing with it.
God has blessed America many times and yet again in giving her this brilliant leader: President Donald Trump.
"The most extreme terrorists have developed a military doctrine that a deadly global pandemic could kill a large portion of the world’s population but, most importantly, destroy the economies, governments and technical infrastructures of the world’s most advanced economies, and create a huge advantage for surviving cultures with large populations capable of living, or even thriving, at a primitive economic and cultural level."
In the first place, highly developed civilizations, with their enormous resources and resilience, would be far more capable of surviving a deadly pandemic than would a population subsisting at primitive economic and cultural levels.
But of greater importance--anyone who thinks the American People are at a cultural disadvantage for survival would be making the same mistake as the Japanese and Nazi Empires in the 1940s--and suffer similar consequences.
The American People are capable of living, and even thriving, at whatever economic and cultural level is necessary. They have proven that time and time again.
Terrorists may not heed this warning, but they will nevertheless suffer the consequences if they don't.
The American People--and Donald Trump--have been underestimated many times.
Only if stupid people (and our leaders) keep acting stupidly.
If you are OLD and have health problems, you got a problem. If you’re not you’ll be sick as a dog for a couple of days...that’s it.
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