On
January 30th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in
relation to China’s novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV) categorized
as a viral pneumonia.
The virus outbreak was centred in Wuhan, a city in
Eastern China with a population in excess of 11 million.
In the week prior to January 30th
decision, the WHO Emergency Committee “expressed divergent views”. There
were visible divisions within the Committee. On January 30th, a far-reaching
decision was taken without
the support of expert opinion at
a time when the coronavirus outbreak was limited to Mainland China.
There were 150 confirmed cases outside
China, when the decision was taken. 6 in the United States, 3 in Canada, 2 in
the UK, etc.
150 confirmed cases over a population of
6.4 billion (World population of 7.8 billion minus China’s 1-4 billion).
What was the risk of
being infected? Virtually zero.
The WHO did not act to reassure and inform World
public opinion. Quite the opposite: A “Fear Pandemic” rather
than a genuine Public Health Emergency of
International Concern (PHEIC) was launched.
Outright
panic and uncertainty were sustained through a carefully designed media
disinformation campaign.
Almost
immediately this led to economic dislocations, a crisis in trade and
transportation with China affecting major airlines and shipping companies.
A hate campaign against ethnic Chinese in Western countries was launched,
followed by the collapse in late February of stock markets, not to mention the
crisis in the tourist industry resulting in countless bankruptcies.
The
complexity of this crisis and its impacts have to be addressed and carefully
analysed.
What we
are dealing with is “economic warfare” supported by media disinformation,
coupled with the deliberate intent by the Trump administration to
undermine China’s economy. The ongoing economic dislocations are not limited to
China.
There are important
public health concerns which must be addressed. But what motivated
the Director-General of the WHO to act in this way? Who was behind
this historic January 30th decision of the WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Our
subsequent analysis (in the timeline below) reveals that powerful
corporate interests linked to Big Pharma, Wall Street and agencies of the US
government were instrumental in the WHO’s far-reaching decision.
What is
at stake is the alliance of “Big Pharma” and “Big Money”, with the endorsement
of the Trump Administration. The decision to launch a fake pandemic under the
helm of the WHO on January 30, was taken a week earlier at the Davos World
Economic Forum (WEF). The media operation was there to spread outright panic.
But this
was not the first time that the WHO decided to act in this way.
Remember the unusual circumstances
surrounding the April 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic.
An
atmosphere of fear and intimidation prevailed. The data was manipulated.
Based on incomplete and scanty data, the WHO Director
General nonetheless predicted with authority that: “as
many as 2 billion people could become infected over the next two years — nearly
one-third of the world population.” (World Health Organization
as reported by the Western media, July 2009).
It was a multibillion bonanza for Big Pharma supported
by the WHO’s Director-General Margaret Chan.
In June
2009, Margaret Chan made the following statement:
“On the basis of … expert assessments of the evidence, the
scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. I have therefore
decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from Phase 5 to Phase 6.
The
world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic. … Margaret Chan, Director-General,
World Health Organization (WHO), Press Briefing 11
June 2009)
What
“expert assessments”?
In a
subsequent statement she confirmed that:
“Vaccine
makers could produce 4.9 billion pandemic flu shots per year in the best-case scenario”,Margaret Chan, Director-General,
World Health Organization (WHO), quoted
by Reuters, 21 July 2009)
A financial windfall for Big Pharma Vaccine Producers including
GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Merck & Co., Sanofi, Pfizer. et al.
CORONAVIRUS
TIMELINE
September 2019: The official US-WHO position is that
the coronavirus originated in Wuhan, Hubei Province and was first discovered in
Late December. This statement is questioned by Chinese and Japanese
virologists who claim that the virus originated in the US.
A renowned Taiwanese virologist pointed
to evidence that the virus could have originated at an earlier
stage, stating : “We must look to September of
2019”.
October
18-27 2019: Wuhan 2019: CISM Sport Military World Games
Chinese
media intimates (without corroborating evidence) that the coronavirus could
have been brought to China “from a foreign source” during the CISM Military
World Games.
10,000 soldiers from
109 countries will participate
200
American military personnel participated in this 10 day Event.
October
18, Event 201. New York. Coronavirus nCoV-2019 Simulation and Emergency
Preparedness Task Force, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health
Security.
Big Pharma-Big Money Simulation Exercise
sponsored by WEF and Gates Foundation
Simulation
Exercise of a coronavirus epidemic which results in 65 million
dead. Supported by the World Economic Forum (WEF) representing the
interests of Financial institutions, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
representing Big Pharma:
In October 2019, the
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise
called Event 201 with
partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
… For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we
explicitly stated that it was not a prediction.
Instead, the exercise
served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely
arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019
outbreak will kill 65 million people.
Although our tabletop
exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the
potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.“We are
not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 [which was also used as the name of the
simulation] outbreak will kill 65 million people.
.Although our tabletop
exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the
potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.”
Several of the occurrences of the nCoV-2019 exercise coincided with what really
happened. In the Event 201 Simulation of a
Coronavirus Pandemic, a 15% collapse of financial markets had
been “simulated”.
It was
not “predicted” according to the organizers and sponsors of the event.
Private
sector initiative. Participation of corporate execs, foundations, financial
institutions, Banks, Big Pharma, CIA, CDC, China’s CDC. No health
officials (with exception of CDC and China CDC) present on behalf of national
governments or the WHO. The simulation exercise was held on the same day as the
opening of the CISM World Militaty Sports Games in Wuhan.
December
31, 2019: First cases of pneumonia
detected and reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province. China.
January 1, 2020: Chinese
health authorities close the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market after Western
media reports that wild animals sold there may have been the source of the
virus. This initial assessment was subsequently refuted by Chinese scientists.
January 7, 2020: Chinese
authorities “identify a new type of virus” which was isolated on 7
January. The coronavirus was named 2019-nCoV by the
WHO exactly the same name as that adopted in the WEF-Gates-John
Hopkins October 18, 2019 simulation exercise.
January 11, 2020 – The
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announces the first death caused by the
coronavirus.
January 22, 2020: WHO. Members
of the WHO Emergency Committee “expressed divergent views on whether this event
constitutes a PHEIC or not”.
January 21-24, 2020: Consultations at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland under
auspices of the Coalition for Epidemic
Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) for development of a
vaccine program. CEPI is a WEF-Gates partnership. With support from CIPI,
Seattle based Moderna will manufacture an mRNA
vaccine against 2019-nCoV, “The Vaccine Research
Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH, collaborated with Moderna to
design the vaccine.”
Note: The development of a 2019 nCoV vaccine was announced
at Davos, 2 weeks after the January 7, 2020 announcement, and barely a
week prior to the official launching of the WHO’s Worldwide Public
Health emergency on January 30. The WEF-Gates-CEPI Vaccine Announcement
precedes the WHO Public Health Emergency (PHEIC).
January 30, 2020: Geneva: WHO Director General determines that the
outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
(PHEIC). This decision was taken on the basis of 150 confirmed cases
outside China, First case of person to person transmission in US is
reported, 6 cases in the US, 3 cases in Canada, 2 in the UK.
The WHO Director General had the backing of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, Big Pharma and the World Economic Forum (WEF). There are
indications that the decision for the WHO to declare a Global
Emergency was taken on the sidelines of the World Economic
Forum (WEF) in Davos (January 21-24) overlapping with the Geneva January 22
meeting of the Emergency Committee.
Both WHO’s Director Tedros as well as Bill Gates were present at Davos 2020. Bill Gates
announced the Gates Foundation’s $10 billion
commitment to vaccines over the next 10 years.
January 30, 2020 The Simulation Exercise Went Live. The same corporate interests and foundations which were involved in the
October 18 John Hopkins Simulation Exercise became REAL ACTORS involved in
providing their support to the implementation of the WHO Public Health
emergency (PHEIC).
January 31, 2020 – One day later following
the launch of WHO Global Emergency, The Trump administration announced that it will deny entry to foreign nationals “who have
traveled in China in the last 14 days”. This immediately
triggers a crisis in air transportation, China-US trade as well as the tourism
industry, leading to substantial bankruptcies, not to mention unemployment.
Immediately
triggers a campaign against ethnic Chinese throughout the Western World.
Early February: the acronym of the
coronavirus was changed from nCoV- 2019 (its
name under the October Event 201 John Hopkins Simulation Exercise before it was
identified in early January 2020) to COVID-19.
February 28, 2020: A massive WHO
vaccination campaign was announced by WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Who was
behind this campaign: GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic
Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). It is a Gates-WEF partnership, both of which
were sponsors of the October 18, “Simulation Exercise”. The campaign to develop
vaccines was initiated prior to decision of the WHO to launch a Global Public
Health emergency. It was first announced at the WEF meeting at Davos (21-24
January).
Late February 2020. Collapse of the stock
markets, surge in the value of the stocks of Big Pharma.
Early
March devastating consequences for the tourist industry Worldwide.
February 24: Moderna Inc supported
by CIPI announced that it experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, known as mRNA-1273, was ready for human testing.
Late February 2020. Second wave of transmission of
the virus (Worldwide) to a large number of countries.
Late February – Early March: China: More
than 50% of the infected patients recover and are discharged from the
hospitals. March 3, a total of 49,856 patients
have recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals in China.
What this means that the total number of “confirmed
infected cases” in China is 30,448. (Namely 80,304 minus 49856
= 30,448 (80 304 is the total number on confirmed cases in China (WHO
data, March 3, 2020). These developments concerning “recovery” are not reported
by the Western media.
March 5, WHO Director General confirms that
outside China there are 2055 cases reported in 33
countries. Around 80% of those cases continue to come from just
three countries (South Korea, Iran, Italy).
These
figures suggested that we are not facing a global health emergency, that the
probability of infection was low. And Based on China’s experience the
treatment for the virus infection was effective.
March 7: USA: The number of “confirmed cases” (infected and
recovered) in the United States in early March is of the
order of 430, rising to about 6oo (March 8). Rapid rise in the
course of March.
Compare that to the figures pertaining to the Influenza B Virus: The CDC estimates for 2019-2020
“at least 15 million virus flu illnesses… 140,000 hospitalizations and 8,200
deaths. (The Hill)
Early March: IMF and World Bank To the Rescue
The WHO
Director General advises member countries that “the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund have both made funds available to stabilize
health systems and mitigate the economic consequences of the
epidemic”. That is the proposed neoliberal “solution” to COVID-19.
The World Bank has committed $12billion in so-called “aid” which will
contribute to building up the external debt of developing countries.
March 7: China: The Pandemic is Almost Over
Reported new cases in China fall to double digit. 99 cases recorded on March 7. All of the new cases outside Hubei province are
categorized as “imported infections”(from foreign countries). The
reliability of the data remains to be established:
99 newly confirmed cases including 74 in Hubei Province, … The new
cases included 24 imported infections — 17 in Gansu Province, three in Beijing,
three in Shanghai and one in Guangdong Province.
March 10-11, 2020: Italy declares a lockdown,
followed by several other countries of the EU. Deployment of 30,000 US
troops in the EU as part of the “Defend Europe 2020” war games directed against
Russia.
March 11, 2020: the Director General of
the WHO officially declares the COV-19 Pandemic. Bear in mind the global health
emergency was declared on January 3oth without stating officially the existence
of a pandemic outside Mainland China.
March 11: Trump orders the suspension
for 30 days of all transatlantic flights from countries of the European Union,
with the exception of Britain. Coincides with the collapse of airline
stocks and a new wave of financial instability. Devastating impacts on the
tourist industry in Western Europe.
March 16: Moderna mRNA-1273 is tested in several stages with 45
volunteers in Seattle, Washington State. The vaccine program started in early
February:
“We don’t
know whether this vaccine will induce an immune response, or whether it will be
safe. That’s why we’re doing a trial,” Jackson stressed. “It’s not at the stage
where it would be possible or prudent to give it to the general population.”
(AP, March 16, 2020)
March 21, 2020: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo while addressing the American people
from the White House stated that COVID-19 is a live military exercise.
“This is not about retribution, … This matter is
going forward — we are in a live exercise here to get
this right.”
With a disgusted look on his face, President Trump replied: “You should have let us know.”
April 8, 2020: Mounting fear campaign
led by Western media. Very rapid increase in so-called “confirmed cases”. “1,282,931 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 72,776 deaths, reported to WHO” (April 8). Mounting
doubts on the reported “confirmed cases” of COVID-19. Failures of the CDC’s
categorization and statistical estimates.
March- April: Planet Lockdown. Devastating economic and
social consequences. The economic and social impacts
far exceed those attributed to the coronavirus. Cited below are selected examples of
a global process:
§
Massive job losses and layoffs
in the US, with more than 10 million workers filing claims for
unemployment benefits.
§
In India, a 21 days
lockdown has triggered a wave of famine and despair affecting millions of
homeless migrant workers all over the country. No lockdown for the homeless:
“too poor to afford a meal”.
§
The impoverishment in Latin
America and sub-Saharan Africa is beyond description. For large sectors of the
urban population, household income has literally been wiped out.
§
In Italy, the destabilization
of the tourist industry has resulted in bankruptcies and rising
unemployment.
§
In many countries, citizens are
the object of police violence. Five people involved in protests against the
lockdown were killed by police in Kenya and South Africa.
Concluding Remarks
We
are dealing with a complex global crisis with far-reaching economic,
social and geopolitical implications.
We have
provided factual information as well as analysis in a summarized “common sense”
format.
Is is
important that COVID-19 be the object of widespread debate and that the
“official interpretations” be forcefully challenged.
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Prof
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 2020
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