Matt Ridley and Prasenjit Ray have written a fascinating piece for UnHerd in which they ask why the Global Virome Project, a well-funded initiative set up by group of public health experts, failed to investigate the origins of COVID-19.
In August 2016, a group of public health experts, policymakers and donors met in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center overlooking Lake Como. Their aim was ambitious: to agree on “bold global action” that would mark the “beginning of the end of the pandemic era”. In other words, they hoped to find which viruses might cause the next pandemic, and get a head start on developing vaccines and drugs.
Known as the Global Virome Project, the scheme was officially launched in February 2018. By 2019, it had appointed a board of directors and made the “transition to a legal and operational reality”, according to an email from its head. Yet when a pandemic did break out at the end of that year, instead of leaping into action the Global Virome Project fell silent. It made no announcements, issued no press releases, arranged no public events.
Today, its website is an online zombie. In the greatest pandemic in a century, caused by exactly the sort of novel emerging virus it was designed to predict and prevent, it lists just three publications on its website, one of which is a dead link and the others four and six-years-old. Its “in the news” page lists no article after April 2021. What happened?
Using embassy cables, emails released under freedom of information, and government reports, we have pieced together the history of this wide-ranging international collaborative project and how it vanished just when it was most needed.
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Sounds suspiciously like an offshore instrument
I see that sinister, dangerous sicko Peter Daszak’s name crops up again. It’s never far from him to Fauci and Gates.
Yes. All the usual suspects.
Except that, in the cliche, the usual suspects are always rounded up, rather than left at large.
That all depends how rich they are and how many “powerful friends” they have!
In this case very rich and very powerful.
Yes, that name again. And yet he’s hardly ever if ever mentioned in the MSM when surely if any one owes the world just a few answers he’s the one.
That is precisely why he is never mentioned – his ghastly new book should attract a little interest as should his dark plans to take over “World Health” (sic) from his Control Centre of the WHO and impose his Vax Writ on us all!
We need to see them linked more often – they have so much in common!
‘and donors met in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center overlooking Lake Como.
Think you’ve answered your own question
If anyone is going to investigate the ‘leak’ make sure you own them
Peter Daszak, head of the EcoHealth Alliance, who became treasurer of the new project;
Hilarious, like putting Jimmy Saville in charge of a kids TV programme
Or giving him keys to a children’s hospital
Or have him wave his medal at the door of Number Ten!
Really very little new here.
We already knew that the world’s virologists – excited at their recent ability to read genomes and create new ones, have been champing at the bit to use this technology to:
and that they were funding many labs around the world to create research viruses as part of this process.
It is hardly a difficult guess to suggest that one of the research viruses got out – handily designed to rapidly infect human cells (which is exactly what you want for human virus research). And we have seen how the virologists, who thought that they knew so much, are actually only at the beginning of understanding the Human Immune System, and how a virus reacts with it.
There are huge issues in continuing with this research. On the one hand, it promises great benefits to humanity, and the eradication of whole classes of disease.
On the other hand, we have just had a salutary lesson about the dangers. And further, something which is not widely known is that the equipment required to perform this experimental work is not controlled, and does not differ greatly from the equipment found in a typical kitchen. You do not need a malicious state to create a biological attack of this type – a malicious individual is quite capable of doing this if he has the (well publicised) knowledge.
I think that the genii is out of the bottle with a vengeance…
“make men into Gods”
I expect they were especially interested in making themselves into gods.
Yes a mixture of ‘levelling up’ and down – it’s ££££££££ for the Billionaires and back to the stone age for the plebs and “deplorables’ ( H. Clinton) and of course yet another solution for the ‘useless eaters’!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Factor … The premise, that atomic weapons do not work and the nuclear powers are covering this up, is clearly fiction, but the rationale, that they are a deterrent to every tinpot state that goes the much easier route of creating biological weapons, is almost prophetic.
What about: “alter the Human Genome with their ‘therapies'”?
I want to post this video as Andy Kaufman does a good job of explaining clearly some of the issues around why the field of virology is essentially based on flawed, invalid, bogus science. The reality is that this is very much an unresolved matter and one that deserves sincere and open source widespread attention. These scammers are rolling over the human race with bogus science that very few people truly understand and it is now patently clear they intend to keep rinsing and repeating these scams, especially now that Bojo The Lying Traitor is signing over executive powers to the criminal lying NWO controlled terrorist organisation the WHO, so the next time they roll out a scamdemic, what with its doctored definition which enables them to declare a pandemic for no valid reason, all countries signed up to this evil will be directly controlled by the WHO. What happened to “Taking Back Control”. LOL. Just “Taking The Piss”, isnt it. Yet again, they are laughing in everyones face and pissing on peoples chips, calling it vinegar and then forcing everyne to eat it at gunpoint. And all we have is a compliant, good for nothing media full of low grade thinkers and zero integrity to do the cover up for the scum, as they drive through their dystopian Bill Gates hell on Earth nightmare world, where you have to be force injected with untested genetic poison for something which has never even been proven to exist, backed up by a fraudulent test which is not fit for purpose on any level.
Also link to a good summary of their last scamdemic, the Swine Flu scamdemic of 2009, which was like a mini convid, and came with a bonus redefining of the word pandemic so the criminal WHO can declare a pandemic for no valid reason. More blatant criminality and fraud from our misleaders.
Ian Jacklin Interviews Dr. Andrew Kaufman on The Germ Theory & The Scamdemic
https://www.bitchute.com/video/02QmKLOCAhuL/
The Final Refutal Of Virology – Dr. Stefan Lanka – Covid And It’s Spike Protein Do Not Exist.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1RF4eHWqBW0j/
Why The WHO Faked A Pandemic
https://web.archive.org/web/20100208182828/https://www.forbes.com/2010/02/05/world-health-organization-swine-flu-pandemic-opinions-contributors-michael-fumento.html
The World Health Organization has suddenly gone from crying “The sky is falling!” like a cackling Chicken Little to squealing like a stuck pig. The reason: charges that the agency deliberately fomented swine flu hysteria. “The world is going through a real pandemic. The description of it as a fake is wrong and irresponsible,” the agency claims on its Web site. A WHO spokesman declined to specify who or what gave this “description,” but the primary accuser is hard to ignore.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), a human rights watchdog, is publicly investigating the WHO’s motives in declaring a pandemic. Indeed, the chairman of its influential health committee, epidemiologist Wolfgang Wodarg, has declared that the “false pandemic” is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century.”
Even within the agency, the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology in Munster, Germany, Dr. Ulrich Kiel, has essentially labeled the pandemic a hoax. “We are witnessing a gigantic misallocation of resources [$18 billion so far] in terms of public health,” he said.
They’re right. This wasn’t merely overcautiousness or simple misjudgment. The pandemic declaration and all the Klaxon-ringing since reflect sheer dishonesty motivated not by medical concerns but political ones.
Unquestionably, swine flu has proved to be vastly milder than ordinary seasonal flu. It kills at a third to a tenth the rate, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. Data from other countries like France and Japan indicate it’s far tamer than that.
Indeed, judging by what we’ve seen in New Zealand and Australia (where the epidemics have ended), and by what we’re seeing elsewhere in the world, we’ll have considerably fewer flu deaths this season than normal. That’s because swine flu muscles aside seasonal flu, acting as a sort of inoculation against the far deadlier strain.
Did the WHO have any indicators of this mildness when it declared the pandemic in June?
Absolutely, as I wrote at the time. We were then fully 11 weeks into the outbreak and swine flu had only killed 144 people worldwide–the same number who die of seasonal flu worldwide every few hours. (An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 per year by the WHO’s own numbers.) The mildest pandemics of the 20th century killed at least a million people.
But how could the organization declare a pandemic when its own official definition required “simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” Severity–that is, the number of deaths–is crucial, because every year flu causes “a global spread of disease.”
Easy. In May, in what it admitted was a direct response to the outbreak of swine flu the month before, WHO promulgated a new definition matched to swine flu that simply eliminated severity as a factor. You could now have a pandemic with zero deaths.
Under fire, the organization is boldly lying about the change, to which anybody with an Internet connection can attest. In a mid-January virtual conference WHO swine flu chief Keiji Fukuda stated: “Did WHO change its definition of a pandemic? The answer is no: WHO did not change its definition.” Two weeks later at a PACE conference he insisted: “Having severe deaths has never been part of the WHO definition.”
They did it; but why?
In part, it was CYA for the WHO. The agency was losing credibility over the refusal of avian flu H5N1 to go pandemic and kill as many as 150 million people worldwide, as its “flu czar” had predicted in 2005.
Around the world nations heeded the warnings and spent vast sums developing vaccines and making other preparations. So when swine flu conveniently trotted in, the WHO essentially crossed out “avian,” inserted “swine,” and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan arrogantly boasted, “The world can now reap the benefits of investments over the last five years in pandemic preparedness.”
But there’s more than bureaucratic self-interest at work here. Bizarrely enough, the WHO has also exploited its phony pandemic to push a hard left political agenda.
In a September speech WHO Director-General Chan said “ministers of health” should take advantage of the “devastating impact” swine flu will have on poorer nations to get out the message that “changes in the functioning of the global economy” are needed to “distribute wealth on the basis of” values “like community, solidarity, equity and social justice.” She further declared it should be used as a weapon against “international policies and systems that govern financial markets, economies, commerce, trade and foreign affairs.”
Chan’s dream now lies in tatters. All the WHO has done, says PACE’s Wodart, is to destroy “much of the credibility that they should have, which is invaluable to us if there’s a future scare that might turn out to be a killer on a large scale.”
Wouldn’t there have to be a virus for there to have been a lab leak ?
A mind virus works just as well and can be controlled much more easily.
You can always make one!
A imaginary one for sure! A ‘real’ manufactured virus would have to have been isolated and characterized just like the alleged viruses occurring in nature.
I am sceptical about the lab leak hypothesis. Obviously the bat soup explanation is even more absurd but I am not at all convinced that there was a Wuhan origin. Around the same time there was a major outbreak in Qom in Iran, which has very few Chinese people coming and going. Not to mention evidence of this pathogen existing in other places in earlier times, Canada and France for example.. And then there was the cluster of mysterious deaths and illness that were called for a short time ‘vaping sickness’ with cases clustered around the Fort Detrick military base in America. The presence of the world military games in Wuhan is also interesting.
The Qom aspect is interesting and never mentioned in the mainstream. Including the deaths of senior Iranian military figures. Plus the warnings issued by the US intelligence community in November 2019, a full month before we are told the Chinese were aware there was a problem.
If you look at the real aetiology of this disease and you are sensitive to things that happened before then you will see clearly that this represents a manifestation of a tendency that was growing for decades but took on an impetus in about 2017. I had friends and relatives in hospital with respiratory diseases. Or what about the fact that ten years ago if you went out in your garden you would be overwhelmed with insects. Insects are becoming exotic species these days. As Milan Kundera said, the power of man against power is the struggle of memory over forgetting.
I agree. I wonder, too, about what appears to be insanity with regard to Shanghai. Is it possible that the Chinese suspect the importation of something a lot more dangerous than Covid?
I am a lot more suspicious than I was two years ago!
What linked Milan, Wuhan, Tehran and London in early 2020 was massively high pollution levels which were ignored by the media and remain unexplained. In London on 9th April 2020 there were levels of pm2.5 particulate pollution of 150 – about 4 times the normal level. I know this because I checked on an air quality app and was so worried I bought an air filter. It was hard to breathe without it on. The scale on the app referred to it as ‘Airpocalypse’. The number of elderly people who died following a respiratory illness suggests it could be linked and might have been pneumonia. In Milan at the end of 2019 there was a pneumonia outbreak which killed a lot of elderly and vulnerable people. April 9th 2020 remains the peak of the ‘pandemic’ deaths and has never been exceeded. I don’t believe this is a coincidence. Incidentally, it was just before this that Cummings was seen running to get home and get out of London. Also not a coincidence in my opinion. Incidentally, I have the screenshot from the app as it became very hard to get data from this time and I thought maybe one day someone will be interested to know this.
And this was the level in Wuhan in December 2019. Not surprising people were getting ill.
‘… they hoped to find which viruses might cause the next pandemic…’
’… the Global Virome Project fell silent. It made no announcements, issued no press releases, arranged no public events. Today, its website is an online zombie.’
Their crystal ball fell off the table and broke?
Looking for viruses but where would they find them?
In the Petri dish perhaps?
Why didn’t they investigate? Because they knew the origin.
If you are captivated by this narrative then you are already dead. That’s how they see you. You have to try to see these circumstances as they are. Of course you will never do that because that involves self-sacrifice and a diversion away from comfort. In the not too distant future this notion of comfort won’t count for anything. Please if you can divert yourself for a moment.
If covid 19 was a hoax are you suggesting that what followed was only a preparation of minds?
I don’t think it was a hoax. I do think that that they have an elaborate understanding of their path into the future. Why wouldn’t they? They merely have a better measure of outcomes because they have been measuring them for so long.
See Peter Daszak for the answers.
We live in blighted Blighty and nothing too bad can happen to us surely. I wish I could say to my countrymen that we aren’t totally immune.
Sounds like those WMDs they hunted for
Catherine Austin Fitts calls it the central banking warfare model. If you want to take the four hundred year view then it really is like that. Perhaps we were beneficiaries until not long ago. You have to stare it coldly in the face.
Not the only cover up
https://thinkcivics.com/the-pentagons-response-to-the-explosive-dod-medical-data-is-an-even-bigger-story-than-the-data/
“It’s now certain that the military’s health surveillance system — DMED — showed a massive increase in sickness and injury diagnoses in 2021 over previous years, particularly in the neurological, cardiovascular, oncological, and reproductive health categories.”
Thanks for the link. Very much worth reading in full!
Covid was already in production https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/disease-x-vaccines-project/
Whilst researching what all this covid insanity was about I began to hear people that were arguing that virology itself is a fundamentally flawed science and that their basic methods for identify a virus were simply wrong.
It wasn’t simply that the original papers claiming to identify sars-cov-2 were faulty but that the very methods claimed by virologists to show that a virus exists do nothing of the kind.
I think that those arguing for this position make more sense than anyone else.
The Viral Delusion
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jajyAdPMdzfJ/
No – those experienced virologists worldwide calling for dilligence, real science and transparency were shut down and abused by politicians and all the Institutions supposed to be protecting us. They were covering-up at the highest Global levels what they had manufactured – see RFKJ’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci “- I am surprised this is not regarded as accepted common knowledge by now.
I have read ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ it is very good and I would recommend it.
Having said that I am of the opinion that virology is junk science and there simply is no credible evidence to back up the claims of orthodox virology.
‘Vanished ‘or was deliberately ‘vanished’ by those responsible for the ‘lab leak’ of what I thought has been established is a man-made virus -‘ made’ not just to give technicians something do but with a specific purpose in mind?
The questions remain whose minds and for what purpose?
We are still dancing around the handbags.
The clue was for why was “meeting in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center overlooking Lake Como”. You have to wonder WHY supposdely charible organisations for the ‘benefit of mankind’ choose to meet at a swish venue.
That the Rockerfeller Foundation supposedly (I was lead to bleieve) produced reports ‘predicting’ a pandemic and then authoritariansm (which didn’t seem to bother them) around 2020 or so was also a clue.
I wonder if Fauci, Gates & Co also had fingers in this proverbial pie? It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
The clue was for why was “meeting in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center overlooking Lake Como”. You have to wonder WHY supposdely charible organisations for the ‘benefit of mankind’ choose to meet at a swish venue.
Just a tad suspicious, isn’t it? I’ve worked with genuinely charitable organisations. We met in places like church halls and school libraries.
These people are being invited to join a select group of the privileged ones. Appearing virtuous is another one of the perks. I’m prepared to accept that there are absolutely genuine people there, but such affairs have insidious effects.
Outsourcing such research to a bunch of quangos and pseudo charities is not the way to do business in an accountable way. If governments want this done they should define the task and fund it directly.
Besides, the model adopted would have had too many rake-offs at each stage with the self-appoinyted international scuientific quango elite having a great time together and in secret.
Always the same tactic. However sheeple should always fell into same trap. yet here we are sometimes still arguing like we are in 2020!
Just a great excuse to holiday at Lake Como on someone else’s dime.