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On January 17, 2024, the World Economic Forum is hosting a discussion titled “Preparing for Disease X.” As this discussion is described on the WEF’s website:
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With fresh warnings from the World Health Organization that an unknown “Disease X” could result in 20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic, what novel efforts are needed to prepare healthcare systems for the multiple challenges ahead?
Among the conference speakers is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), which is currently lobbying for support of its proposed Pandemic Treaty. The WHO has announced a target date of May 2024 for a legally binding agreement to be adopted by the U.N. health agency’s 194 member countries.
The recent chatter about Disease X is reminiscent of the autumn of 2019, when preparations got underway for a “hypothetical” coronavirus pandemic.
Consider the following events leading up to January 31, 2020, when the WHO’s International Health Regulation Emergency Committee declared the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019: A research team at Johns Hopkins prepares a study about the growing risk of an infectious disease outbreak for the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. Founded in 2018 by the World Bank Group and the World Health Organization, Board members include Antony Fauci, Jeremy Farrar (head of the Wellcome Trust) and George Gao (Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention from August 2017 to July 2022).
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019: The Wuhan Institute of Virology’s online, public database of samples and virus sequences is taken offline in the middle of the night between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. local time. The database contained more than 22,000 entries consisting of sample and pathogen data collected from bats and mice. The database contained key information about each sample, including what type of animal it was collected from, where it was collected, whether the virus was successfully isolated, the type of virus collected, and its similarity to other known viruses.
The report’s title page is illustrated with an image of a coronavirus, and its text is an urgent call to action for the world to invest far more in preparedness for a respiratory viral pandemic. As the report states on page 8:
What is most notable about the report is that it mentions NOTHING about the need to invest in bolstering bio-laboratory safety. It expressly warns about the threat of a lethal respiratory pathogen “accidentally or deliberately released,” but its entire call to action is to invest a fortune to responding to such a pathogen instead of preventing it from being released in the first place.
OCTOBER 19, 2019: The Johns Hopkins Center for Public Security, in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum, conducted a Pandemic Simulation Exercise. As Johns Hopkins described the event:
The center’s latest pandemic simulation, Event 201, dropped participants right in the midst of an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak that was spreading like wildfire out of South America to wreak worldwide havoc. As fictional newscasters from “GNN” narrated, the immune-resistant virus (nicknamed CAPS) was crippling trade and travel, sending the global economy into freefall. Social media was rampant with rumors and misinformation, governments were collapsing, and citizens were revolting.
Note that in this simulation, the “uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak” originates in South America and not in China, even though that latter country had long been regarded as the likely location of the next coronavirus outbreak. This strikes me as a rather crude misdirection.
It seems very unlikely that the above events in September and October of 2019—just a few months before SARS-CoV-2 was officially detected and announced—were just a coincidence. To be sure, most of the participants were probably unaware that a novel coronavirus was already spreading in Wuhan at the time they conducted these studies and seminars. Full knowledge was probably limited to a few intelligence and public health officials in China and the United States.
