The evidence that the coronavirus originated in a lab is now compelling, as is the evidence that the virus was spreading undetected all over the world by autumn 2019, with one blood sample from Lombardy found to be positive for both viral RNA and antibodies as early as September 12th 2019.
One crucial outstanding question is who knew what and when. In particular, what did the U.S. know about the virus before January 2020 and what did the Chinese Government know, and what part did each therefore play in driving forward the pandemic emergency?
Here I will argue that both the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knew or suspected that an engineered virus was circulating from mid-November 2019, and that while the CCP was initially not worried about the virus, the U.S. biodefence network was much more concerned. The pandemic emergency was therefore largely created by the U.S. biodefence network, which used it as an opportunity to put into practice all the emergency protocols it had been preparing for two decades to respond to a biological attack or pandemic. While the virus quickly turned out to be mild, the emergency response continued largely because the train had already started running and the opportunity was too good to miss.
If the U.S. and its allies did know anything covertly before 2020, the most likely people who would know it are members of the intelligence and security networks. What, then, can we surmise about what they knew from what they were saying and doing in autumn and winter 2019-20 and from later reports?
Consider Dr. Michael Callahan, an ex-CIA agent who now runs the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was the U.S. Government’s only confirmed point of contact in Wuhan in January 2020. Out of the blue, Dr. Callahan contacted mRNA vaccine expert Dr. Robert Malone on January 4th 2020 to tell him that (to quote Dr. Malone): “There was a novel coronavirus circulating in the Wuhan region, it was looking like a significant biothreat, and I should get ‘my team’ engaged in seeking ways to mitigate the risk of this new agent.”
Bear in mind that at this point nobody else was spreading alarm about the new virus, which according to the public record had only been sequenced and confirmed to be a novel SARS-like virus by the private Chinese company Vision Medicals on December 27th. Certainly the CCP was not spreading alarm. Prior to the Wuhan lockdown on January 23rd 2020, the CCP was playing down the threat from the virus, suppressing news of it and not making any concerted response. The videos supposedly showing people collapsing in the streets with the virus that went round social media at the time were promoted not by the CCP but by organisations opposed to the CCP, aiming to expose its cover-up of the virus. Most people in the West, too, were not treating the virus as a significant threat and it was barely registering on government agendas. Recall that in early January there were officially just a few people in hospital in Wuhan and no recorded deaths, so any notion that this virus was a major threat to global public health was purely hypothetical – or based on information not in the public domain.
However, Dr. Callahan was not alone in his early alarmism. Others from the U.S. biodefence network were conspicuously alarmist and actively trying to raise a sense of alarm in those around them right from the start of January.
In the White House, Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger was stoking up the terror. As Michael Senger notes: “Throughout January 2020, Pottinger unilaterally called White House meetings unbeknownst to those in attendance and breached protocol to ratchet up alarm about the new coronavirus based on information from his own sources in China, despite having no official intelligence to back up his alarmism.”
It was Pottinger who brought in fellow alarmist Deborah Birx as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator at the end of February 2020, who was herself instrumental in pushing the alarmist agenda and bringing lockdowns to America.
The leaked ‘Red Dawn’ emails among U.S. Government officials and others in early 2020 show long-time lockdown proponent Dr. Carter Mecher of the Department of Veterans Affairs also pushing for strong responses from very early on. On January 28th, Mecher wrote: “Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad. You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools. Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”
Dr. Mecher is an associate of Dr. Richard Hatchett, formerly of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) and now CEO of the Gates-funded pandemic vaccine organisation CEPI, with whom he wrote a paper in 2007 purporting to use the lessons of the 1918 pandemic to promote social distancing. A sister paper, also funded by the NIH, was produced at the same time by Imperial College’s Professor Neil Ferguson. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director (then and now) Dr. Anthony Fauci commented in 2007 that the two studies underline that “a primary lesson of the 1918 influenza pandemic is that it is critical to intervene early… Nonpharmaceutical interventions may buy valuable time at the beginning of a pandemic while a targeted vaccine is being produced”.
Richard Hatchett happened to be attending the World Economic Forum when China locked down Wuhan on January 23rd 2020. The following day he gave a press conference with Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust and a board member of CEPI, and Moderna’s CEO Stephane Bancel, backing China’s draconian response and making clear it was straight out of his own playbook.
One thing that is important to understand, is that when you don’t have treatments and you don’t have vaccines, non-pharmaceutical interventions are literally the only thing that you have, and it’s a combination of isolation, containment, infection prevention and control and then these social distancing interventions.
There is historical precedent for their use. We looked intensively and did an historical analysis of the use of non-pharmaceutical interventions in U.S. cities in 1918 and what we found was that cities that introduced multiple interventions, early in an epidemic, had much better outcomes.
The ‘we’ of course here refers to Neil Ferguson and Carter Mecher, as per the above.
Further possible evidence of the involvement of the U.S. intelligence community and biodefence network is that the messages of the ‘whistleblower’ doctor Li Wenliang in Wuhan were initially promoted in English by an organisation funded by the U.S. Government. The flooding of social media with messages promoting lockdown in 2020 was also seen in 2014 with Ebola in Sierra Leone, where it was clearly the work of outside agents. It is also of significance that the same New York Times reporter, Donald McNeil, wrote almost identical articles praising the extreme interventions in both 2014 and 2020.
Anywhere you look in early 2020, amidst the sea of general calm, any source of alarm will invariably be found connected with someone associated with the biodefence network of the U.S. and its allies – people such as Michael Callahan, Matt Pottinger, Deborah Birx, Richard Hatchett, Carter Mecher and Neil Ferguson.
It comes as no surprise then to learn that in the U.S. the virus was treated, not as a matter of public health, but of national security. This approach, already evident in the high level of activity from the biodefence network, was made official in March 2020 when the responsibility for policy in the pandemic was given, as Debbie Lerman has pointed out, not to the public health bodies but to the National Security Council and its agencies. The policy document that the ensuing policy decisions were based on has never been published.
Why would a virus that has as yet done very little be a national security matter? The most likely explanation is because it was known or suspected to be a non-natural, engineered agent. This likely conclusion is supported by other evidence, in particular by what intelligence reports suggest both the U.S. and CCP knew about the virus in November 2019.
A recent report from the U.S. Senate showed that the CCP made a major safety intervention at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on November 12th 2019 to address the “complex and grave situation facing [bio]security work”. The Senate report also implied that around the same time the WIV must have begun work on a vaccine for the new coronavirus – deduced from the fact that Yusen Zhou (who mysteriously died shortly afterwards) applied for a vaccine patent on February 24th 2020. These facts indicate that the CCP became aware that a leaked virus was circulating in mid-November, presumably because it noticed people falling ill and, via testing, traced it back to the WIV (while there is no direct evidence of this, U.S. intelligence reports have noted WIV workers falling ill with a Covid-like illness in November).
The CCP’s response to discovering this appears to have been to address safety issues at the WIV and to begin working on a vaccine, but otherwise to suppress information about the virus and not treat it as a major threat. The CCP does not appear to have alerted its health services during November or December as medics in Wuhan had to discover it for themselves. This play-it-down and suppress policy continued even once doctors in Wuhan spotted the novel virus in their patients and obtained the near-complete sequence from a private lab on December 27th. The CCP then continued to insist for weeks that the virus wasn’t spreading between humans, aggressively suppressed any suggestion it came from a lab and pushed the scarcely plausible theory that it had jumped from animals in the wet market. The sharing of the full virus sequence on January 11th only happened because a Chinese scientist breached protocol to do so, and was disciplined for it. Even once the CCP abandoned its play-it-down policy and initiated aggressive non-pharmaceutical interventions on January 23rd it continued to frustrate efforts to investigate the WIV and its virus data. It’s clear then, that up to January 23rd the CCP showed no sign of being worried about the virus, but every sign of worrying that the virus’s origins would be discovered.
Separately, the U.S. intelligence community has let it be known that it was aware of a new virus circulating in China from mid-November. As an Israeli news website reported: “In the second week of November, U.S. intelligence recognised that a disease with new characteristics was developing in Wuhan, China. They followed its spread, when at that stage this classified information was not known to the media and did not come out of the Chinese regime either.”
This intelligence is said to have come “in the form of communications intercepts and overhead images showing increased activity at health facilities”. The U.S. military “then alerted NATO and the [Israeli] IDF of the outbreak precisely at the end of November”.
So we know the U.S. had intelligence on the virus circulating in mid-November. I think we have to assume this intel was linked to the CCP safety intervention at the WIV via intercepted communications, and thus that like the CCP, U.S. intelligence knew or suspected it was lab-engineered from that point. But if so, no one appears to have told Dr. Fauci and his associates – Fauci’s FOI emails reveal him and his colleagues (Jeremy Farrar, Kristian Anderson etc.) to be figuring out that it was likely engineered (and that they funded it) at the end of January. On February 1st, Fauci initiated an urgent cover-up operation, designed to discredit the idea of a lab leak as a baseless conspiracy theory, telling his associates: “You will have tasks today that must be done.” It is not clear whether Fauci orchestrated this cover-up on his own initiative or, more likely, after being instructed or pre-primed to do so by others in the biodefence network. The motive in any case was the same: to point the finger away from the U.S.’s funding of the implicated virus research and to avoid discrediting the field.
It thus appears that from November 2019, both the CCP and the intelligence community of the U.S. and its allies were watching the leaked outbreak to see what would happen and whether, as they hoped, it would fizzle out. Chinese President Xi Jinping and the CCP were keen to ignore it and suppress any alarm, as well as any hint of a lab leak. The biodefence network, on the other hand, appears to have been much more nervous about the new virus. As soon as word began to get out it amplified the news, spread alarm, pressed for strong interventions and activated biosecurity protocols, putting its members in charge wherever possible.
Despite this alarmist mode, however, members of the biodefence network consistently backed the natural origins and wet market theory and suppressed the lab leak theory. This is very telling, not least because they knew the wet market story to be false as they had been tracking the outbreak since November. There is also no way they could have known at that early point it was not of lab origin, and as we know there was plenty of evidence to suggest it was, not least what we presume they knew about the Chinese intervention at the WIV. If we assume for a moment they did not suspect it was lab-engineered it is very hard to account for their high degree of alarm about the new virus or activation of biodefence protocols and treating it as a national security matter at a time when officially it had not yet killed anyone and there were few hospital patients.
Furthermore, publicly endorsing the lab leak theory or at least keeping it in play would clearly have been helpful to them as it would have added to the cause for alarm, reinforced their narrative of exposing the CCP’s virus cover-up and unambiguously made it a national security matter. The choice instead to back the CCP’s implausible version of events and suppress the lab leak theory thus betrays that a lab leak must have been seriously inconvenient for them in another way, namely that it implicated them and risked discrediting their research.
It is also telling in this regard that when some in the U.S. Government did start pushing the lab leak theory, the Chinese responded not by denying it but by trying to blame the U.S. for the leak. This feels like a warning shot: don’t expose us on this or we’ll expose you.
As is well known, the CCP’s play-it-down strategy came to an abrupt end on January 23rd 2020, when the CCP caved in to the alarmist calls for lockdowns and NPIs (which actually have a long history in China). Thereafter the country embraced its new policy with zeal, turning itself into a showcase for the extreme pandemic response measures, joining in the promotion of them around the world and really making them their own.
Thus we find that the pandemic emergency was largely a creation of the U.S. biodefence network, with China coming on board after January 23rd. U.S. intelligence officials had been following the virus (which they, like the CCP, knew or suspected was lab-engineered) from mid-November, and the biodefence network made sure news of the virus got out once doctors noticed it, spreading alarm before there was anything really to be alarmed about and treating it immediately as a biosecurity threat. I believe they did this initially, in part, out of genuine concern about the engineered virus, but also partly because they were itching to try out all the biosecurity protocols they’d been preparing for decades – not least the warp speed rollout of an mRNA vaccine. This latter motive also helps explain why it all carried on once it was obvious the virus was not a major threat to human life and the extreme responses were not justified. It was, in other words, a kind of trial run for a biological attack orchestrated by the biodefence network of the U.S. and its allies, with the CCP playing a belated supporting role.
If true, this certainly helps to make sense of it all. But it is hardly a comforting thought, because it reinforces that they’re not done with us yet, but are just getting ready to do it again, and who can stop them?
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Perhaps sane, robust politicians in various parts of the world, so that the US biodefence lot are TTFO. And reasonably intelligent normal people might do the same thing.
All fairly plausible, but the timing of Event 201 in Oct 2019 doesn’t feel like a coincidence.
also too coincidental – 2020 completed Bill Gates’ ‘The Decade of Vaccines’
The collaboration follows the January 2010 call by Bill and Melinda Gates for the next ten years to be the Decade of Vaccines.
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Ideas/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2010/12/Global-Health-Leaders-Launch-Decade-of-Vaccines-Collaboration
“why it all carried on once it was obvious the virus was not a major threat to human life and the extreme responses were not justified.”
They never were, if people around you are dropping dead in the streets you will not need to be told to stay in your home. And even if you were short of shooting people some would and some wouldn’t, and society would have collapsed anyways.
This video is from 2020 and the chap presenting has done a stellar job of looking at bioterror and pandemic simulations starting in 1990. Yes, the infamous Dark Winter and Lockstep are covered too;
https://rumble.com/v1ro8sw-paul-schreyer-pandemic-simulation-games-preparation-for-a-new-era.html
I’m in France and my wonderful government have banned Rumble. I know I can use a VPN, but it is so tiresome living in a regime whose philosophy is so fragile and inconsistent that it is compelled to ban information rather than counter it.
That’s pretty horrific that your government can just ban a platform such as Rumble. What is their reasoning?
I don’t know: misinformation spreader? I mean, if official government pronouncements had any plausibility, people wouldn’t be looking for other sources of information.
I’m in France too ! the notice given is :
Because of French government demands to remove creators from our platform, Rumble is currently unavailable in France. We are challenging these government demands and hope to restore access soon.
But we live in a democracy, so the solution is very simple. If we don’t want our.lives to be subjected to the ambitions and whims of the US biodefence establishment and their various technocratic stooges around the world, then all we have to do is vote for the party that stands against that at the next election and if they win they’ll make it happen for us, because they represent the people and that’s what the people want.
That is the ridiculous story that most people still believe in. That we live in a democracy and our representatives run the country according to the will of the majority and with respect for the minority.
For a moment I thought you’d been kidnapped and were sending a coded distress message.
I’m sorry to say that we aren’t a democracy in any traditional sense anymore. We can vote for a government, but as soon as the votes are counted they just go their own sweet way. Suddenly the welfare and the wellbeing of citizens is out and following supranational groupthink that we are never asked about is in, which we are committed to at enormous expense. Even our Prime Minister looks like the Regional Manager of GlobalCorp, there to follow policy, or be dismissed…
I appreciate that a lot of work has gone in to producing this article but I do not buy the story. The planning and the wholesale Lockstep approach, virtually worldwide undermines Dr Jones’ version of events. Event 201 was no coincidence and neither was the virus at the back of their table-top exercise, oh yes, they named it coronavirus.
The so-called “vaccines” had been in preparation for years and Fauci had patents already sorted. The only bit of the story that might be plausible is that there was an accidental lab leak and given that their planning was pretty much complete they decided to take advantage and kick off the Agenda 2030 programme although this is stretching the story. I am not convinced.
Too many countries adopted identical scripts and spouted the same trite slogans:
‘No one is safe until everyone is safe.’
‘Build Back Better’
…and so on.
Hospitals emptying old and sick patients in to nursing homes and then killing them.
Criminalising the few decent doctors who attempted early treatments. The worldwide outlawing of two of the safest drugs on the planet – Ivermectin and Hydroxichloroquine and which pertains to this day.
The worldwide adoption of NPI’s in the full knowledge that these could only adversely affect health.
Worldwide pushing of “vaccines.” And why? It is now clear that the purpose of the injections is to chip, maim and kill or in shorthand, depopulation.
No, I will never accept cock-up theory for any of this. What we are living through has been years in the planning and nothing short of massive civil disobedience can derail it.
Stop ignoring the obvious and less overthinking. What is happening is simply hidden in plain sight.
I am weary of cock-up theory.
Agree 100%
Whilst one should never underestimate the incompetence of those in charge it seems incredulous beyond belief that they were all so incompetent at the same time.
What has and still is happening is beyond evil.
Meanwhile bastards like Hancock et al enjoy the limelight, and adulation? – made possible only by a compliant MSM and sheep.
My only solace is that Hell awaits them all.
Wake up you F*****g morons.
Good post Sforzesca.
What makes me think it might have been an accidental release and that they went early is that lots of planned repressive legislation isn’t yet in place and it has been very easy – for the non-gullible minority – to find info on the internet that disproves the official lies.
Yes, that’s a reasonable assumption.
If you had ever experienced the senior decision making processes in government, any government, you would know that “cock-up theory” does explain 99% of our problems. The other 1% is the product of megalomaniacs but the amplification comes from the fools who validate Hayek’s proposition that, “in government, scum floats to the top.”
Well said, HP, and I concur. The cock-up theory suits those that haven’t fully realised the dire shitstorm we are in and who somehow wish it wasn’t happening, that’s it’s all a dreadful mistake. I do think that there are those involved in the process who are little busybody types who can’t admit to a darker agenda and who think that what they do is OK – this includes the health service, government, MPs, media and so on. These people are the enablers, just as the millions of compliant masses who refuse to see the truth or who only listen to the propaganda are also enablers. The dark forces in the shadows rely on these enablers.
Was the Pandemic Orchestrated as a Trial Run for Responding to a Biological Attack?
Pretty shit effort if it was.
I still have a sneaky suspicion that in a parallel universe where, in 2016, the UK voted remain and the US voted for Clinton, 2020 would be a year that had a nasty bit of flu and life carried on as usual. COVID-19 put the technocrats back in charge, impoverished populations and saw a massive push towards Agenda 30 that had been derailed by the possibility of more populations getting ideas that don’t chime with the elitists.
COVID-19 was convenient for all the wrong reasons. And now the people who caused this mess are completely in power and telling us we have to suffer to clean up their mess.
The difference between our world and that blissfully ignorant parallel world is that a significant proportion of our population knows what these supra-national organisations are about, who is tied up with them and just how dangerous they really are.
Dangerous yes ! Someone posted the ex Vodaphone whistleblower explaining The Internet of Things etc ! It was mixed in with a bit of religious / spiritual stuff which actually didn’t detract anything , in fact maybe it is Good V Evil , God help us !
Given Klaus Schwab’s presence at G20 (where many of the leaders are his acolytes) I begin to wonder if this really is apocalyptic Good vs Evil stuff!
Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell is also at the G20. Why?
Yes and no ..Much of what we are currently experiencing was planned and published BEFORE Trump and Brexit, while the ‘elites’ still believed they had the cash and propaganda infrastructure to control us Plebs… I believe when Trump and Brexit occurred despite the extreme efforts to the contrary of the ‘Western’ / NATO technocratic elites, I reckon they fast tracked a plan that is consequently occurring too soon… The technology it relies on investing in simply isn’t there yet … the preparatory brainwashing of our kids is not complete …and grumpy old dinosaurs like us should have been dead …
It’s a plausible scenario but I don’t think I buy it. Malice aforethought on the part of the Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, WEF, Fauci, BiS, IMF, etc is much more likely.
That’s a great article thanks Will – a laudable and as far as I’ve seen thus far the best and most plausible account of what happened late 2019 – early 2020.
Doubtless it will have to be revised over time and – as other posters have pointed out – the timing of Event 201 does seem a remarkable coincidence which may have to be explained.
But as a first stab at history this is pretty good imo – the sort of thing the MSM should be doing, and only a few years would have been regarded as a major piece of investigative reporting, which would have gone far to making the journalist’s reputation. How times have changed.
I see nothing much to disagree with in either the contents or conclusion of this article. I believe this was an orchestrated event and an orchestrated response by Globalists who want maximum possible control over the global population and will do anything they deem necessary to achieve it.
We have been subjected to a massive medical and psychological experiment and – sadly – our collective response was not good. But that was partly because so many ordinary independent thinkers took time to identify the PsyOps Campaign; link to the scientists and medics who were speaking out and issuing warnings and then to get themselves organised ….. all made far harder because of the suppression of free speech at the scientific level and at the demos level by closing the pubs.
We will be much better placed to push-back the next time they try this. We are many; they are few. And they fear us just as much as we fear them.
The best account of plandemic origins yet. Still to be revealed is the real reason they wanted a jab in every arm. I mean, the Deagel 2025 Population forecasts were fake, right?
A very impressive piece of work, thank you Mr. Jones for connecting the dots and trying to ensure that these villains are held accountable for the damage they wrought.
Thanks for another brilliant article, Will.
Another event plays into the biowarfare scenario and that is something was going on at the Lab in Winnipeg that involved 2 Chinese scientists working on something in the Lab that was funded by the Chinese biowarfare unit. These 2 scientists were suddenly told to leave Canada and have vanished. The Trudeau government refuses to release any information on what transpired there even when held in contempt of Parliament. It is also suggested that Trudeau called the last election in 2021 to thwart the Parliament seeking answers.
I have never believed that conspiracy trumps cock-up. Until now. This is compelling stuff. If true, there is one sure thing about the emergency protocols people were so keen to test; they don’t work.
I don’t buy that #TheGreatCovid19Fraud was ‘just’ an overactive BioSecurity response…Too many coincidences… I see it this way; #NATO was facing an existential crisis with Trump and Brexit turning away from an organisation that has failed to repurpose itself post fall of USSR, and the loss of ‘elite’ Authority Trump and Brexit embodied and represented. Brexit had to be emasculated by binding the UK to a NATO wide biosecurity strategy, and the economic benefits Trump was bringing to AverageJoeAmerican had to be destroyed to ensure he lost the Election. Tie this to a NATO strategic aim to maintain its global supremacy via ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’ /#TheGreatClimateRobbery and the rest is History…Boris and The Donald were bounced into this by a Financial/Security establishment that routinely manipulates politicians to preserve its long term policy aims beyond the political cycle… Obviously the long term plans that ignited #TheUkraineShitshow tie neatly into this aim of re-establishing NATO authority, and have been long in the making. One thing is for sure.. “cock-up” this is not! ..(it’s pretty much all laid out in the 2010 published WEF _ Rockefeller Foundation_”Scenarios for the future of Technology and International Development” ) ..I blame the Nazis …;)
Very plausible explanation indeed.
It would also explain why the new Health Security Agency was set up in the UK – when it was discovered that actually we didn’t really have a biodefence network.
You might also have mentioned that the EcoHealth Alliance made a proposal for gain of function research to America’s Defence Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2018. EcoHealth claim their research is to help prevent pandemics – in which case, why look to the DEFENCE projects agency to fund it?
DARPA rejected the proposal but EcoHealth then went on to obtain funding for this research from Fauci’s National Institutes of Health. At that time such research was illegal in the United States (having been banned under President Obama). And we know that EcoHealth had close links with the lab in Wuhan.
https://www.opindia.com/2022/01/darpa-rejected-ecohealth-alliance-proposal-for-coronavirus-fauci-allowed-it-project-veritas/#:~:text=DARPA%20had%20rejected%20the%20proposal%20saying%20it%20is,USA%20as%20well%20as%20Wuhan%20Institute%20of%20Virology.
There are smoking guns all over the place on this. I’m sure people will end up going to jail over it.
We did have a sensible biodefence network , and sensible pandemic plans, headed up by the Health Protection Agency and Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, headquartered at the Civilian side of Porton Down … The HPA was abolished in 2013 following a masterplanning exercise to explore its future configuration called ‘Project Chrysalis’ on account of cost .. The then director died at the outset of #TheGreatCovid19Fraud… The UK Health Security Agency is the HPA’s National Socialist successor …
This reads like a foundational document for us erstwhile Lockdown Sceptics, describing the original lies that brought us all together as people who simply could not align the emerging data on the virus with what we were being told by our leaders. Don’t stop!