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[NOTE: this is the THIRD revision of an article originally published on February 5. The following version, published on Medium.com on March 14, was apparently so offensive to the supposedly pro-free-speech platform Medium that they saw fit to remove my whole account, without warning or explanation. Bold italic text was added today (April 13)]

Why was I kicked off the platform, you ask? I can't definitively say, but when I clicked on "help" looking for troubleshooting for account issues, this is what I saw. You can't make this up.

 

(March 14: Since the original publication, the WHO has declared coronavirus a pandemic, and many of the predicted events — entire countries all but locking down their populations, the National Guard being deployed in a New York suburb, and a more deadly form of the virus mysteriously surfacing in another country targeted by both US and Israeli military operations — have come to pass. Instead of stockpiling toilet paper, EDUCATE YOURSELVES. All information is backed up with links to sources, and updates have been added where needed in bold to bring the story up to date. I do not traffic in rumor or irresponsible speculation, and I advise you not to, either.) 

By now, those following the novel coronavirus epidemic are familiar with Event 201, the pandemic simulation staged by Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and other ruling-class heavy hitters in October 2019. The media establishment has already picked the story clean, set up and eviscerated a straw man (“No, Bill Gates didn’t cause the coronavirus epidemic, silly conspiracy theorists!”), and convinced the group itself to issue a statement denying their exercise was meant to predict the behavior of the actual virus to follow.

But few are aware that the epidemic playing out in China and two dozen other countries, including the US, is unfolding in line with a decade-old simulation titled “Lock Step” devised by the Rockefeller Foundation in conjunction with the Global Business Network. The scenario, one of four included in a publication called “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” in 2010, describes a coronavirus-like pandemic that becomes the trigger for the imposition of police-state controls on movement, economy, and other areas of society.

The Lock Step scenario describes “a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.” In “2012” (i.e. two years after the report’s publication), an “extremely virulent and deadly” strain of influenza originating with wild geese brings the world to its knees, infecting 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million people in just seven months — “the majority of them healthy young adults.” It devastates global economies and ruptures international trade. But not everyone, the Rockefeller Foundation makes clear, is hit equally.

Countries of Africa, southeast Asia, and central America suffer the worst “in the absence of official containment protocols” — it wouldn’t be the Rockefeller Foundation if someone wasn’t licking their lips at the thought of a mass die-off in the Global South — but western “democracies” also pay the ultimate price. “The United States’ initial policy of ‘strongly discouraging’ citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the US but across borders,” the report warns. But remove such obstacles as ‘individual rights’ and you have a recipe for surviving, even thriving in the event of a pandemic, the Foundation gushes:

“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.”

The message is clear — police state good, freedom bad. And other governments rapidly get the message, according to the simulation. First and third world nations alike follow suit by “flexing their authority” and imposing quarantines, body-temperature checks, and other “airtight rules and restrictions” — most of which, the report is careful to note, remain in place even as the pandemic recedes into the past. “In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems — from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty — leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.”

This global power-grab is facilitated by a frightened citizenry who “willingly gave up some of their sovereignty — and their privacy — to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability…tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight.” Everything from tighter biometric identification to stricter industrial regulation is welcomed with open arms. It takes over a decade for people to “grow weary” of the authoritarian controls imposed in the wake of the pandemic, and hints that even the civil unrest that ultimately manifests is focused on the developed world. After all, a popular uprising in the technocratic police state envisioned by the simulation would be all but impossible — as it will be in real life once 5G makes real-time total surveillance of all cities a reality.

Pin the blame on the dragon

It remains unclear what — or who — unleashed the novel coronavirus in Wuhan. The initial claim that it originated in bats from a “wet market,” in which live animals are sold and then butchered in front of the customer, couldn’t have been more perfect from a western point of view — wet markets are reviled in the West, where consumers prefer that the animal cruelty required to put meat on their tables happens behind closed doors. While wet markets would seem to improve food safety by making it impossible to sell “mystery,” mislabeled or expired meat, time and again they are fingered as disease vectors by the disapproving West, every time followed by calls to ban them entirely. However, the Huanan seafood market hadn’t sold bats for years, meaning — if the “wet market” hypothesis is to persist — an “intermediate host” species would be required to get the virus to humans. Snakes were nominated, even though scientists weren’t sure they could be infected by a coronavirus — it was more important that they eat bats and were sold at the market. Three weeks after the Huanan seafood market was shuttered and disinfected, a Lancet study put the last nail in the hypothesis’ coffin, revealing the first several coronavirus cases had no exposure to the market at all. Since the original publication of this article, several more studies have emerged proving the virus was already circulating in humans before it was unleashed in the market in Wuhan. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this has not discouraged the media from continuing to blame it for the epidemic. Two months later, US officials including Senate warmonger-in-chief Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Russiagate cultist Michael McFaul, and Dr. Mengele wannabe Anthony Fauci continue to blame wet markets for the coronavirus outbreak. There remains not a shred of proof that this virus came from a wet market.

 
“Gimme a hug!”

The Fear Virus Pandemic

Beyond the disintegrating “official story,” rumormongers have pinned the blame on the Chinese government, suggesting that through malice or incompetence Beijing released a virus cooked up in a top-secret bioweapons program operating in the city’s high-security lab. The chief purveyor of this theory is Dany Shoham, an Israeli biosafety analyst and former IDF military intelligence officer, which should raise a forest of red flags in anyone familiar with Israel’s own experiments in gene-targeted biowarfare even before taking into account Shoham’s own history of fraudulently blaming Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for the 2001 anthrax attacks. Other outlets spreading this theory cite American biosafety consultant Tim Trevan, who opined in a 2017 Nature article — published before the Wuhan lab even opened! — that “diversity of viewpoint” and “openness of information” are both critical to the safe functioning of such a high-risk lab and alien to Chinese culture. The persistence of the “lab accident” theory of coronavirus’ creation thus owes more to cultural chauvinism and sinophobia than any fact-based clues.

While many alt-media outlets have fingered Event 201 as the replica “drill” that so often coincides with a false flag event, few are aware that on the day after that simulation, the 2019 Military World Games kicked off in Wuhan, bringing 300 US military personnel to the city. Matthias Chang, former advisor to the Malaysian PM, however, zeroed in on the games as the likely entry point for what he described as a biological war waged by the US against China. In an interview with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting last month, Chang placed coronavirus on a continuum of American bio-attacks he said included deliberate infection of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea and Cubans with dengue fever, as well as creating the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.

As of February 4, there were over 1,000 times more coronavirus cases in China than outside of it, and the foreign cases appeared to be ethnically Chinese where reported. This was not a coincidence — a recent scientific paper revealed the enzyme which serves as a receptor for novel coronavirus is produced by a certain type of lung cell found in “extremely large numbers” in Asian men compared to those of other ethnicities. Even more intriguingly, those lung cells are involved in the expression of “many other genes that positively regulating [sic] viral reproduction and transmission.” The paper’s authors stop short of suggesting the virus came out of a lab, instead drily observing that it seems to have “cleverly evolved to hijack this population of [lung] cells for its reproduction and transmission,” but one man’s clever viral evolution is another’s expert bioweapon development. Subsequently, multiple strains emerged, one notably targeting Iranians (and Italians). A study conducted by Taiwanese researchers in February traced the five strains of the virus then known to exist back to the US, suggesting the US alone could be the source of the coronavirus pandemic.

By April, the US had, judging by the statistics put forth by Johns Hopkins University, pulled far into the front in terms of diagnosed cases and casualties. However, doctors have come forward across the country concerned about a CDC directive telling them to classify all deaths of infected persons as "coronavirus deaths" - even in cases where, as in 99% of Italy's coronavirus deaths, serious comorbidities were present that were more likely to be responsible for the deaths. This happened in Germany as well, and the New York Times matter-of-factly reported that all respiratory deaths - the number-four cause of death in the US - were being classified as coronavirus in New York hospitals, throwing that city's disproportionately-high infection numbers into question.

"Fear is a great way to control people," Minnesota state senator and physician Scott Jensen told local media, attempting to explain why the CDC would provide such unprecedented and troubling guidance. 

American researchers have been surreptitiously collecting Chinese DNA for decades. A notorious Harvard School of Public Health program in the mid-1990s drafted village medics to administer “free physicals” to locals “with asthmatic symptoms.” These “checkups” were conducted as part of a genetic project that also involved the US National Institutes of Health and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, supposedly aimed at “identify[ing] and characteriz[ing] genes that play a role in causing asthma and other allergic disorders.” It later emerged that the researchers had secured the required consent forms from neither the local experimental ethics board nor the test subjects themselves. A government inquiry was commandeered by an insider and squelched. Over 200,000 DNA samples were thus collected and spirited out of the country.

US military literature has been lusting after genetically-targeted weapons for at least 50 years. The infamous Project for a New American Century, whose members have been steering the US ship of state into a series of icebergs since the George W. Bush administration, described gene-specific bioweapons as a “politically-useful tool,” part and parcel of the “new dimensions of combat” in which the future’s wars would unfold. In 1998, the year after PNAC’s formation, reports Israel was working on just such a weapon to target Arabs while leaving Jews untouched flooded the media — part PR campaign, part warning. And it is DARPA and other divisions of the US military, not the Chinese, that has been intensively studying bat-borne coronaviruses for years, even as their own high-security biowarfare labs are being shut down for shoddy safety procedures.

Meanwhile, the likelihood of the Chinese government unleashing a genetically-targeted virus on its own population is vanishingly low. Unlike popular attitudes of “white guilt” in the West born of a hangover from colonialism, the Chinese do not traffic in racial self-loathing — indeed, outsiders have accused the Chinese of an unspoken, unshakeable belief in their own racial superiority, and regardless of whether that belief is problematic, it is unlikely to lead to intentional self-genocide. Even if a behavior-correcting false flag was sought by Beijing in Hong Kong, where US-backed pro-“democracy” protests had raged destructively for months, such an event would not have been unleashed hundreds of miles away in Wuhan.

 
My, what lovely matching signs you have. Nothing says Democracy like mass-produced protests!

Never let a good crisis go to waste?

The real-life coronavirus is much less virulent than the pandemic described in Lock Step, with an official death toll of “just” 427 and a global infection toll of “only” 20,629 as of February 4, and the dead were mostly over 60 with preexisting medical issues. By March 13, the number of infections had climbed to 140,000 worldwide and 5,000 people were said to have died of the virus; a second, deadlier strain appeared to have taken root in Iran and Italy, making estimates of overall fatality rate difficult. However, while seniors and the infirm face high risk, adults in good health have a high rate of survival, and children remain all but unaffected, a highly unusual characteristic for any viral outbreak. By early April, the number of infections had cracked 1.8 million, but the death toll was hopelessly muddled thanks to the statistical shenanigans described above. Some 119,483 people thought to be infected with the coronavirus had died by April 13, but a more exact figure cannot be determined - whether those people died OF the coronavirus, or whether they had it to begin with (recall that the CDC called for people believed to be infected to be written off as coronavirus deaths, no questions asked). Economies worldwide are in free-fall just like the simulation predicted, and sweeping quarantines have come down from Italy to New York, echoing the harsh measures adopted in China, which — just as the Rockefeller Foundation said it would be — has been widely praised for its decisive response. The economic panic is fueled by scare-stories percolating in establishment media and alt-media alike (the name of an actual article in ZeroHedge by a Rabobank analyst: “What if we are on the brink of an exponential increase in coronavirus cases?”) while videos of dubious origin appearing to show horrific scenes from within China keep the virus viral on social media. Adding to the fear is coronavirus’ lengthy incubation period, up to two weeks in which a carrier could be blithely spreading it to everyone they meet, creating a constant threat of a “boom” in cases just around the corner. Now that the virus is in the US, which lacks a universal public healthcare system, there is feverish speculation about widespread infection; Trump declared a public health emergency on March 13, unlocking $50 billion in “disaster response” funding. New York governor Andrew Cuomo, a fascist-in-waiting who has given near-daily press conferences touting his take-no-prisoners approach to the epidemic, sent in the National Guard to maintain quarantine in New Rochelle with just over 100 cases present in the suburb in March, while municipalities nationwide have banned large gatherings, shuttered schools, and seen grocery store shelves denuded of staples from toilet paper to rice. Those troops have since been joined on the West Coast by tanks moving out of San Diego and an announcement that Texas' National Guard will be going "door to door" to make sure everyone who's supposed to be quarantined is behaving themselves.

China’s economy, of course, was initially hit the worst, and the epidemic’s timing could not have been more disastrous from Beijing’s point of view, coming on the eve of the Lunar New Year holiday. At this time, some 400 million Chinese travel around the country to see family, mostly in the high-speed bullet trains that have their hub in — you guessed it — Wuhan. With much of this travel having occurred before the city was quarantined, cases are likely in their incubation phase all over the country, making the numbers of early February look like a rounding error.

Correspondingly, the situation couldn’t have been better for the American ruling class, at first: a pandemic that targets Asians striking China just when it’s most vulnerable is a powerful blow to the rising superpower. And in case anyone still believes the circumstances of the virus’ ascendance are merely an extended string of coincidences, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross took that plausible deniability and stomped on it in January, unable to stop himself from gushing that coronavirus would “help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America” in an interview with Fox News. Prefacing his victory lap by saying he didn’t “want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate, very malignant disease,” he pointed out that businesses will be forced to take China’s inexplicable susceptibility to deadly viruses into account when reviewing their supply chains. Unmentioned, but adding to the perfect economic storm, was Trump’s signature on the USMCA trade agreement, supposed to bring in an extra 1.2 percentage points in GDP growth.

“On top of all the other things, you had SARS, you had the African Swine virus there, now you have this,” Ross said, hammering home the point by linking coronavirus to other suspect plagues. Just as many scientists concluded SARS was a manmade bioweapon, many — scientists and statesmen as well as alternative media — have raised the alarm about coronavirus. Good luck finding any of their statements on Google, however. Facebook, Youtube and Twitter have been hard at work removing coronavirus “rumors,” and Google has memory-holed hundreds of search results regarding Chinese accusations of biowarfare. Even on platforms that don’t censor on government orders, the baseless claims from Shoham and other disinfo artists about Chinese biowarfare have muscled any comments from Chinese officials out of the way. Even the Malaysian politician’s comments are obscured behind a Farsi language barrier — his original comments inexplicably missing from English-language media and reprinted only by Iran’s IRIB News Agency (this author can no longer even find the tweet that alerted her to those comments, but would like to thank that person). An Iraqi doctor, Omar al-Hadidi, failed to cross the English language barrier with his no less explosive claim that the US had booby-trapped red baseball caps with a special moisture-activated plastic capable of transmitting the coronavirus, then handed them out to Kurdish youth from the US embassy in Erbil in order to spread the virus in northern Iraq. Claiming his colleagues had been bribed or threatened into silence, al-Hadidi posted a video in which he appeared to test hats he claimed were given to himself and five other Covid-19 patients, showing lab-grown viral material present on each of the caps, which came sealed with the signature of US ambassador Matthew Toler.

By early March, however, too many accusations had built up for Americans to ignore, and they had begun spilling over into English-language media. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Hossein Salami both accused the US of deploying Covid-19 in a “biological attack” against Tehran. China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian echoed Chang’s suggestion that the US had brought the coronavirus to Wuhan under cover of the Military Games, tweeting a video of the CDC director admitting some US deaths had been erroneously attributed to the flu that were later shown to be caused by Covid-19.

While Lijian’s superiors did not explicitly condone his freewheeling tweets, nor did they disavow the claim; fellow spokesman Geng Shuang merely explained that different opinions existed as to the virus’ origins among the international community. Given the enormity and implications of accusing the US of deliberately poisoning the Chinese people with a killer contagion — a claim which would clearly call for a retaliatory strike on Beijing’s part, for the sake of honor if nothing else — the words of the two Chinese spokesmen may be the closest China’s government will come to naming the culprit.

More recent research appears to point to Fort Detrick, Maryland as the likely source of the outbreak. Fort Detrick was shut down in August for failing to uphold safety standards, including those involving wastewater decontamination and periodic recertification of workers, a month after the CDC served it with a cease-and-desist order. A more detailed report revealed even more troubling violations at the lab. Even so, it was returned to functionality in November and reopened fully in April, supposedly - and it's hard to believe that Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland/Tel Aviv) said this with a straight face - "to tackle Covid-19 and other threats to our nation." Meanwhile, the "mysterious respiratory illness" that surfaced in mid-2019, linked at the time to vaping and striking many young and otherwise-healthy people, shares many symptoms with what is now called Covid-19, and other cases could easily have been written off as pneumonia or flu. 

Coronavirus is not the doomsday epidemic it is being portrayed as by irresponsible media actors, who have been flogging the story non-stop since the virus made its public debut in Wuhan. But as the Lock Step scenario makes clear, one does not need massive die-off or victims exploding in geysers of blood in the streets to achieve desired social goals. It’s possible the novel coronavirus epidemic is a “dry run,” a test of both China’s readiness to handle an outbreak and of the international community’s reaction to such a plague. It’s even possible, though unlikely, that the epidemic was a mistake — that the virus escaped from a lab, likely American, by accident. The epidemic has wiped out the Trump administration’s much-touted stock market gains completely, and the president has responded to the catastrophe by proposing a series of increasingly unhinged economic band-aids for Wall Street’s sucking chest wound while all but telling the plague-panicked American people to keep a stiff upper lip and they’ll be fine. And while the president restraining himself from Chicken Littling his way to a perfect police state should be applauded, that void is quickly being filled by state governments, from Cuomo sending the National Guard to occupy New Rochelle to Ohio Department of Health director Amy Acton claiming the 13 declared cases in her state were actually 100,000 deathly-ill Americans just waiting to be tested — right after she was praised as a “calming leader” by fawning local media.

Big Tech has also stepped up to the plate, having fully matured into its mantle as the extraconstitutional arm of Big Brother ready to strangle any remaining civil liberties the American people might have left. As Trump announced his public health emergency, he declared that Google would be running the government’s Covid-19 screening, having sicced “more than 1,000” of its top engineers on a project that would route suspected coronavirus cases to their local testing centers and then on to “further care.” While ruling class mouthpieces from coast to coast rushed to social media to clarify, pointing out that it was not Google but a company called Verily behind the project, which wouldn’t be ready on Sunday like he said, and would only be available in the Bay Area of California, their claim that the president was “lying” was wildly overblown. Verily may not be Google, but it is a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet. The pilot version of the Covid-19 screening site is expected to debut a day later than Trump promised. And the project leader acknowledged its “vision and aspiration” are national. So yes, Google is running the US government’s coronavirus testing. The same trillion-dollar megacorporation that has eagerly slurped up enough predictive data on every American through their searches and the content of their emails to know better than you do what your next move will be will control your coronavirus status — and if you think that status can’t be manipulated for political ends, strategically leaked, or changed to serve a purpose, you probably still believe in the Easter Bunny.

It’s also possible the plague may suddenly become more virulent. If Iran and Italy are any indication, it has. Certainly the media buzz the first week of February is that coronavirus is close to being declared a “pandemic” by the WHO, which will necessitate the type of control measures hinted at in Lock Step and described more exhaustively in Event 201. The WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 11. Congratulations! From “limited internet shutdowns” and “enforcement actions against fake news” to government bailouts of “core” industries, mandatory vaccinations, property seizures, and other police-state provisions laid out in the Model State Emergency Health Powers Acts passed in many US states in the paranoid aftermath of 9/11, the totalitarian nature of these provisions is limited only by the imagination of the regime carrying them out. Once events proceed to that stage, it is extremely difficult to reverse them. We would be wise not to allow this to happen.