Event 201

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About

About the Event 201 exercise

Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.

The exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts, live “staff” briefings, and moderated discussions on specific topics. These issues were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these recommendations.

Purpose

In recent years, the world has seen a growing number of epidemic events, amounting to approximately 200 events annually. These events are increasing, and they are disruptive to health, economies, and society. Managing these events already strains global capacity, even absent a pandemic threat. Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.

Recent economic studies show that pandemics will be the cause of an average annual economic loss of 0.7% of global GDP—or $570 billion. The players’ responses to the scenario illuminated the need for cooperation among industry, national governments, key international institutions, and civil society, to avoid the catastrophic consequences that could arise from a large-scale pandemic.

Similar to the Center’s 3 previous exercises—Clade X, Dark Winter, and Atlantic Storm—Event 201 aimed to educate senior leaders at the highest level of US and international governments and leaders in global industries.

It is also a tool to inform members of the policy and preparedness communities and the general public. This is distinct from many other forms of simulation exercises that test protocols or technical policies of a specific organization. Exercises similar to Event 201 are a particularly effective way to help policymakers gain a fuller understanding of the urgent challenges they could face in a dynamic, real-world crisis.

Scenario

Details about the scenario are available here.

Recommendations

The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering. The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted on October 18, 2019, vividly demonstrated a number of these important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some of the elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that will be needed to fill them. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these recommendations.

When/where

Friday, October 18, 2019
8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The Pierre hotel
New York, NY

Audience

An invitation-only audience of nearly 130 people attended the exercises, and a livestream of the event was available to everyone. Video coverage is available here.

Exercise team

Eric Toner, MD, is the exercise team lead from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Crystal Watson, DrPH, MPH and Tara Kirk Sell, PhD, MA are co-leads from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Ryan Morhard, JD, is the exercise lead from the World Economic Forum, and Jeffrey French is the exercise lead for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Exercise team members are Tom Inglesby, MD; Anita Cicero, JD; Randy Larsen, USAF (retired); Caitlin Rivers, PhD, MPH; Diane Meyer, RN, MPH; Matthew Shearer, MPH; Matthew Watson; Richard Bruns, PhD; Jackie Fox; Andrea Lapp; Margaret Miller; Carol Miller; and Julia Cizek.

Event 201 was supported by funding from the Open Philanthropy Project.

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centerforhealthsecurity.org: Event 201 Players (https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/players/haines.html)

Avril Haines

Avril Haines is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University; a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; a member of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service; and a principal at WestExec Advisors.

During the last administration, Dr. Haines served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. She also served as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council.

Dr. Haines received her bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. She serves on a number of boards and advisory groups, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Bio Advisory Group, the Board of Trustees for the Vodafone Foundation, and the Refugees International Advisory Council.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Haines

Avril Danica Haines (born August 27, 1969) is an American lawyer and senior government official who currently serves as the Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Haines previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Obama administration; the first woman to hold either position. Prior to her appointment to the CIA, she served as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Office of White House Counsel...

During her years in the Obama administration, Haines worked closely with John Brennan in determining administration policy on extra-judicial "targeted killings" by drones. Newsweek reported Haines was sometimes called in the middle of the night to evaluate whether a suspected terrorist could be "lawfully incinerated" by a drone strike...

On November 23, 2020, Joe Biden, then the president-elect, announced his nomination of Haines for the position of Director of National Intelligence; she became the first woman to hold the position.

Prior to her confirmation hearings, Daniel J. Jones, chief investigator and author of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture in 2009–2012, criticized Haines for determining that several CIA employees should not be disciplined for hacking computers of Senate staffers authoring the report in 2015. Haines, then-Deputy Director, made the decision against the CIA inspector general's conclusion.

planet-today.com: RFK Jr.: CIA-led ‘military response’ to pandemic was meant to drive democracy from the world and usher in global totalitarianism (https://www.planet-today.com/2021/12/rfk-jr-cia-led-military-response-to.html)

December 06, 2021
Who was in attendance at the Event 201 simulation?

Silicon Valley’s Big Tech giants all had representatives there, as did Big Pharma, Bloomberg News, NBC and the Washington Post.

The head of the Chinese CDC was there, as was the Gates Foundation, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations World Health Organization, and Avril Haines of the CIA.

“The two hosts were Bill Gates and Avril Haines, former deputy director of CIA and who is now Biden’s director of national intelligence. She is the nation’s top spy,” Kennedy said. “Which is bizarre. And it’s bizarre that the CIA was at this conference.”

Their plan, revealed in the four Event 201 discussion seminars, was to develop a grid system to connect doctors all over the world, forcing them to follow globalized, universal health protocols in the treatment of the virus.

“They never talked about isolating the sick, or treating them. They never talked about how do you preserve constitutional rights during a pandemic. What they talked about was a military response and how to use the pandemic as an excuse to impose totalitarian controls on our country and all countries around the world,” Kennedy said.

The four seminars remain on YouTube as of this writing.

“If you look at Seminar 4, which is the longest and the last of the four seminars, it’s all about censorship. All about how do you get the social media companies to censor discussion of suspicions that this is a lab leak, that the coronavirus now spreading across the world was caused by a lab leak,” Kennedy said.

And Event 201 was no one-off event. There have been 20 such simulations since 1999, according to Kennedy’s research.

“Collectively they’re called Operation Lockstep. And the problem they were addressing was how do you get all the liberal democracies in the world to pivot in lockstep and turn themselves into totalitarian nations? They practiced again and again. And in each one of these simulations, none of them were about public health. They’re all about, how do you do a controlled demolition of democracy across the globe.”

Two of the common denominators of these virus simulations were the presence or involvement of Bill Gates and the CIA.

“Gates is participating in a lot of them directly or one of his quasi-organizations, which is the Johns Hopkins School of Population Control, they’re there at almost all of them. But the one constant in every one of these is the CIA.

“There’s high-level CIA officials and intelligence officials, and the CIA wrote the script for every single one of them. So you have to ask yourself, what is their intent with these kind of simulations? Clearly it was not the preservation of the United States Constitution or the constitutions in any of these countries; it was all about how to abolish democracy in all of these nations.”

Kennedy ticked off every single right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and showed Howse how it has been assaulted by the Covid response of government at all levels.

“Our Bill of Rights has been obliterated, starting with the First Amendment; people like me are not allowed to talk, we’re not allowed to criticize our government,” he said. “Even with a product that is experimental, we cannot question. Doctors who believe they’ve found other ways to treat coronavirus, they’re gaslighted, they’re punished, they’re silenced.”

Once they decimated free speech, they went after freedom of religion.

“They closed every church in this nation for a year, and they did this with no public hearings, no scientific need. They abolished religious exemptions,” Kennedy said. “And they kept the liquor stores open. I have nothing against liquor stores but they’re not in the Constitution. Churches are.”

Next to fall by the wayside was freedom of assembly. They implemented social distancing – a term no one had ever heard of before it became ubiquitous overnight.

“Controls were put on everything. They separated families and individuals in a way that was unprecedented. They made everybody wear masks. Which of course created a huge psychological distancing – it drives people apart, It creates fear. We all treat each other as biohazards.”

Employers can now commandeer your medical rights and medical privacy. Freedom of movement was curtailed in many countries, and all of one’s privacy is compromised with the implementation of digital vaccine passports...

If you go to Europe, the passes are not being issued by the ministers of health. They’re being issued by the financial ministries. There’s a reason for that, Kennedy said.

“The purpose is to have your credit rating and your civic rating on there,” he said. This is modeled after the Chinese Communist Party’s social-credit scoring system, in which a person’s access to their money can be shut off if they don’t obey the rules of the state.

Its not just digital. It’s digital and programmable currency, so that if you don’t comply they tell you that you can’t go more than ten blocks from your house. And if someone lives in Milan and wants to go to Bologna, your money won’t work in Bologna.”

In short, the governments, with their allies in the banking and corporate world, are able to use digital money to categorize and then otherize people with dissident views.

“If they tell you that you can only eat in a pizza parlor, your money will only work in a pizza parlor. That’s what this is all about.”

“So all of these constitutional rights. We have something called due process of law. If you want to pass a law in the U.S., you get Congress to pass it. If you don’t like it you can try to get them voted out of office. This was a safeguard.”

But now, under the guise of an “emergency,” a career politician like Joe Biden who’s been in D.C. for 50 years, can just make a law by decreeing it out of thin air, Kennedy said.

That means the entire constitutional process of how laws are enacted, the entire American system of separation of powers and checks and balances, has been bypassed compliments of Covid and a CIA/military psy-op.

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And Event 201 was no one-off event. There have been 20 such simulations since 1999, according to Kennedy’s research.

“Collectively they’re called Operation Lockstep. And the problem they were addressing was how do you get all the liberal democracies in the world to pivot in lockstep and turn themselves into totalitarian nations? They practiced again and again. And in each one of these simulations, none of them were about public health. They’re all about, how do you do a controlled demolition of democracy across the globe.”
fullfact.org: Covid-19 pandemic was not planned by Rockefeller Foundation (https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-pandemic-was-not-planned-rockefeller-foundation/)

17 MAY 2021
WHAT WAS CLAIMED
The Rockefeller Foundation planned the Covid-19 pandemic under the name ‘Operation Lockstep’.

OUR VERDICT
This is entirely false. ‘Lock Step’ was the name of a scenario planning exercise that examined what might happen in a future pandemic, but differs considerably from the current pandemic...

The post appears to make several claims about the current pandemic, but many are things we have previously fact checked and found to be false. For example, evidence shows that Covid-19 is not the same as flu, Covid-19 is more dangerous than the flu, coronavirus tests do not give a large number of false positive results, we do have accurate numbers for how many people have died of Covid and 5G is not harmful.

It then says when people “re-emerge into society” they will become ill and this will be blamed on Covid-19. People will be offered a vaccine and a “weaponised” virus will be released if too many people refuse the vaccine, leading to war between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. There is nothing to suggest any of this will happen...

Claims about Operation Lockstep have been previously debunked by American fact checking organisation Snopes, which reported that in 2010 the Rockefeller Foundation funded a scenario planning exercise called ‘Scenario for the Future of Technology and International Development’.

This looked at various different imagined scenarios and the role technology could theoretically play in them, including a global pandemic. The global pandemic scenario was named ‘Lock Step’ in this exercise...

The imagined scenario bears a passing resemblance to the current situation, such as governments imposing restrictions to limit the spread of the virus.

However, the scenario also describes Africa and Southeast Asia being particularly affected by the imagined virus, whereas Covid-19 has more severely affected Europe, South America and the United States.

The Rockefeller Foundation: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
nommeraadio.ee [pdf] (https://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Rockefeller%20Foundation.pdf)

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LOCK STEP
A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback...

The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers...

But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better—China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post-pandemic recovery...

During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified.

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rt.com: Bill Gates says Omicron 'sadly spreads immunity faster than vaccines (https://www.rt.com/news/549937-bill-gates-omicron-vaccines/)

19 Feb, 2022
Asked about the world’s progress in “beating Covid-19” during a panel at the 2022 Munich Security Conference on Friday, the tech magnate and philanthropist credited the coronavirus itself for immunizing populations naturally in some regions.

“Sadly, the virus itself – particularly the variant called Omicron – is a type of vaccine. That is, it creates both B-cell and T-cell immunity, and it’s done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines,” he said.

Due to a large amount of “infection exposure” in certain regions, the risk of serious illness from Covid-19 has been “dramatically reduced,” Gates continued, also noting that severe symptoms are “mainly associated with being elderly and having obesity or diabetes.”

cnbc.com: Bill Gates says Covid risks have ‘dramatically reduced’ but another pandemic is coming (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/18/bill-gates-covid-risks-have-reduced-but-another-pandemic-will-come.html)

FEB 18 2022
Gates said it was already “too late” to reach the World Health Organization’s goal to vaccinate 70% of the global population by mid-2022. Currently 61.9% of the world population has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

He added that the world should move faster in the future to develop and distribute vaccines, calling on governments to invest now.

“Next time we should try and make it, instead of two years, we should make it more like six months,” Gates said, adding that standardized platforms, including messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, would make that possible.

“The cost of being ready for the next pandemic is not that large. It’s not like climate change...

Gates, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has partnered with the U.K.’s Wellcome Trust to donate $300 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which helped form the Covax program to deliver vaccines to low- and middle-income countries.

The CEPI is aiming to raise $3.5 billion in an effort cut the time required to develop a new vaccine to just 100 days.