'Covid' Ops: The playbook for a pandemic

There’s a saying that “the best place to hide something is in plain sight”… the theory being that if something appears mundane it is generally perceived as being of little interest, so people rarely pay attention to it.

That seems to be the logic adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) when it comes to the global preparedness simulation exercise we’ve all become unwilling participants in this year.

Established in 1948, the WHO began preparing for the “worst” soon after its inception and by the time it turned 22 had its International Health Regulations (1969) in place.

And as the world has changed since then, so has this document, which sets out how the organisation and its member states approach global health.

By 1995 the international picture had moved on appreciably from the immediate aftermath of World War II and the World Health Assembly that year saw the need to completely revise its plan… a decade later IHR (2005) came into effect.

The International Health Regulations (2005) created a binding international legal agreement signed off by 196 countries across the globe, including all WHO member states, to shield the world from a public health disaster.

But by the time it came into effect other international think-tanks and forums had also developed their agendas for the world we live in.

The United Nations’ Agenda 21 had become the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and bodies such as the Bilderberg Group, the World Economic Forum and the Trilateral Commission had all weighed in with their visions of the future.

This would all be hunky-dory if these bodies had humanity’s interests at their core but unfortunately they don’t, these organisations have become the brainstorming sessions for the world’s elite and they serve to further their interests and keep them in the privileged lifestyles they’ve become accustomed to.

The “official” purpose and scope of IHR (2005) is “to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade”.

The executive board steers the direction the WHO moves in, while it’s funding comes from, as you’d expect, member countries such as France, Germany, China, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the European Commission and the United States, although US President Donald Trump is currently threatening to withdraw his country’s support.

What you might not expect is that a charity run by one of the richest men in the world is the second largest supporter of the organisation.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the brainchild of Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates, has pumped in vast sums to the WHO, while also being the major supporter of the GAVI Alliance, an international organisation created in 2000 to improve access to new and underused vaccines, which also contributed more than US$370 million over the past three years. Which probably makes the Gates’ foundation indirectly the WHO’s biggest benefactor.

The UK is the third biggest contributor to the WHO, donating $435 million between 2018 and 2019.

Taking up the UK’s seat on the WHO executive board is the chief medical officer Chris Whitty, the science expert we’ve heard so much from this year who also happens to have been granted vast donations by Gates for projects he’s previously worked on.

The US representative is Assistant Secretary of Health Admiral Brett Giroir, who from 2004-08 served as the deputy director, and then a director, of DARPA's defence science office.

For anyone not familiar with its work, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency is the part of the US Department of Defence responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

In order to ensure plans for the new world order were kept on track, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank Group co-convened the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), which was formally launched in May 2018.

Co-chaired by former Norwegian prime minister and former WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland and former secretary general of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Elhadj As Sy, the GPMB also has Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the US National Institutes of Health, and Jeremy Farrar, a director of the Wellcome Trust, on its board.

In September last year the GPMB released its “annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies”, entitled “A World At Risk”, in which it urges “political action to prepare for and mitigate the effects of global health emergencies”.

A big part of WHO planning since the inception of IHR (2005) has been to get national agencies up to speed on the measures necessary to cope with this perceived threat to global public health, with a core element of that being through simulated exercises, many of which are documented on its website.

What “A World At Risk” does is bring governments up to speed on how well they’re doing on global preparedness and what needs to be done to ready the world for this impending threat.

You can find the document on the WHO website, but I’m guessing that very few people outside those directly involved with the implementation of IHR (2005) are aware of its existence and even fewer have glanced through its pages.

But if you do take the trouble to read it, and cast your eyes between the lines, what is “hiding in plain sight” is the blueprint for what the GPMB describes as a global preparedness simulation exercise, including the deliberate release of a lethal respiratory pathogen, which we have all become participants in since Wuhan became ground zero for the event.

It’s the GPMB’s first annual report and in it the board “explores and identifies the most urgent needs and actions required to accelerate preparedness for health emergencies, focusing in particular on biological risks manifesting as epidemics and pandemics”.

The report states that the board analysed evidence and commissioned seven review papers to explore the challenges of preparedness through “various lenses” that include governance and coordination; country preparedness capacities; research and development; financing; enhancing community engagement and trust; preparing for and managing the fallout of high-impact respiratory pathogen pandemics; and, lessons learned and persistent gaps revealed by recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in Africa.

The report adds that world leaders must implement seven actions to prepare for pressing threats, with one of the board’s first priorities being to develop a monitoring framework to track progress not only on these actions, but on other national and global political commitments as well.

The report states that countries, donors and multilateral institutions must be prepared for the worst: “A rapidly spreading pandemic due to a lethal respiratory pathogen (whether naturally emergent or accidentally or deliberately released) poses additional preparedness requirements. Donors and multilateral institutions must ensure adequate investment in developing innovative vaccines and therapeutics, surge manufacturing capacity, broad-spectrum antivirals and appropriate non-pharmaceutical interventions.

“All countries must develop a system for immediately sharing genome sequences of any new pathogen for public health purposes along with the means to share limited medical countermeasures across countries.”

There is also a progress indicator set for September 2020, by which time donors and countries commit and identify timelines for “financing and development of a universal influenza vaccine, broad spectrum antivirals, and targeted therapeutics”.

It’s all there… the Covid19 playbook down to the fine detail. The report even acknowledges the foundation of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in 2017 to facilitate focused support for vaccine development to combat major health epidemic-pandemic threats, backed by Germany, India, Japan, Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the World Economic Forum.

So we have a plan in the pipeline since the 1960s, becoming a binding international agreement in 2005 with the establishment of the GPMB in 2018 to drive forward its implementation.

In September 2019 the GPMB releases its report on what actions governments must take, in October the Gates’ foundation and the World Economic Forum carry out Event 201, a high-level pandemic tabletop exercise, with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a month later we’re at ground zero in Wuhan.

Some of the major protagonists in this plot… Farrar, Fauci, Whitty, Giroir and, of course, Gates.

In threatening to pull the plug on the WHO, Trump’s argument is that the organisation hasn’t done enough to stop Covid19 from spreading. Quite funny really since it’s been planning for it since the 1960s.

From 2018-19, the US provided $893 million, around 15 per cent of the WHO’s annual budget, but if that stops I’d be very surprised if the Trump administration didn’t find another worthwhile cause to invest it in. Perhaps the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board?

In its September report the GPMB pledges to monitor progress on preparedness for other types of health emergencies as well, such as those caused by natural disasters.

So, I wonder, what’s around the corner next? An impending weather catastrophe, a meteor colliding with the planet, or perhaps a false-flag alien invasion? They’ve pulled off a pandemic hoax with most of mankind buying it hook, line and sinker… why not an alien invasion? DARPA have been working on that one for decades!