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by dulan drift, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 14:42 - first published by formosa hut - thanks dan.
Yes, normal vanity, greed, power hungriness motivates our celebrity scientists - but there’s also an ideological overlap with the CCP: they both love centralized, personalized bio-data.
They’ve seen the future (on our behalves) - this is what we need to keep us safe. We warned you about Covid - now we need to prepare for the Next Disease X (Spoiler: For the record: Ebright & Hobson, were warning, way before Dazza, that the Anthrax-funded GoF-craze was gonna lead to a pandemic.)
As Daszak/One Health says, logic and reason tells you this approach will: save untold millions of lives.
Which is precisely where empiricism
- the science -
becomes illogical. This is why:
Global amassment of personalized bio/health-data, including DNA, opens the door to political abuse. That’s humans for you. Like it or not - it’s
It will affect the outcome.
But there’s no evidence for that!
Sure there is. Easy to find. Search the words genomic surveillance Uyghurs - see how you go … (or keep reading - we’ll delve into that later…)
Yeah - but - we’re taking the politics out!
Even if you were, which you’re not, that’s an admission you’re ignoring an integral piece of the puzzle.
Politics is involved in global biosurveillance.
If you’re weighing the long term effects - not taking this into account - then:
stand-down
You’re proceeding from a false premise - thereby - making a horrible mistake - with catastrophic humanity-shaping consequences… (!)
The One Health Initiative is a good case-study.
One Health Initiative website: In April 2006, Dr. Laura H. Kahn [MD, MPH, MPP] published the CDC article, ‘Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine’ which prompted Dr. Bruce Kaplan [DVM] to contact her. Together they started the One Health Initiative, and Dr. Thomas P. Monath [MD] joined them in March of 2007 to establish the OHI triumvirate The One Health Initiative: Team Aims and Activities | Duke One Health. (Duke - remember that name)
Princeton: (Laura Kahn) published Who’s in Charge? Leadership during epidemics, bioterror attacks, and other public health crises in 2009 with Praeger Security International. (terrorism security company) Her main point is CDC should assume command in a bioterrorism event.
So we’ve got a bioterrorism enthusiast & a Zoonati legend as founders of One Health.
One Health Initiative website: The One Health Concept is .. a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations .. in health care for humans, animals and the environment.
The synergism achieved will advance health care for the 21st century and beyond by accelerating biomedical research discoveries.. (and) expeditiously expanding the scientific knowledge base .. (which will) save untold millions of lives in our present and future generations.
Great. Unless Covid was a lab-leak. In which case the: world-wide synergism of accelerated biomedical research collaborations and expeditious expanding
- cost -
untold millions of lives in our present and future generations.
But let’s not pre-judge. Let’s take a closer look at a One Health Initiative scheme in action before we reach any conclusions.
A thread amongst our Celebrity Scientists, apart from being pro-CCP, is the One Planet-One Health bio-data-base evangelism.
For example, every chance Lipkin got in the crucial, embryonic Covid period - and he got a lot - he preached GIDEoN, a One Health initiative.
Lipkin: Every chance I get, I preach this - what we need is an international surveillance system, this is the future for us - (31:40) this is what will keep us secure on the planet - this is what we need.
An international surveillance security system? Sounds a bit creepy, Ian.
Lipkin: This program is called GIDEoN - …(31:55) - .. it’s an international integrated network where people share data and care for one another - to try to protect the world.
Ohr, so sweet.
Lipkin: It ensures that everybody employs a common database 1:06:05 and uploads their data so everybody can see it.
Uhmm … so a global health data-base where everybody can see it? Or you mean everybody who’s anybody? Like your good self?
Private medical data is sensitive stuff to be sharing, Ian. You want to upload a whole globe’s worth onto one database? What about all the cyber-hacking of medical data?
Out of curiosity, who are these more everybody than normal bodies in charge of surveilling/securing the planet again?
Lipkin (16:44): Lu Jia-hai, who’s a professor at Sun Yat-sen University .. runs a large One Health program - it’s been funded for about 6 months by the Chinese Government, but doesn’t really have any support in the US. It’s called GIDEON - Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Network. .. This is the future(31:40) - this is what we need.
Update: GIDEON (a play on the heroic Israelite, Gideon, from the bible?) is a One Health.. international surveillance system - to keep us secure on the planet - funded by the Chinese Government.
Is that the same Chinese Government already using western bio-surveillance tech to oppress the Uyghurs, Tibetans and Hong Kongers and threaten Taiwan? Or the one that was transparent in sharing that this was a serious threat globally? (19:05)
So as a cure for a disease potentially caused by scientists - you’re suggesting a temporary abrogation of privacy rights/freedoms of the globe? to get us out of this mess? Or is it more of a Dan Andrews-style permanent Covid-normal?
Lipkin, GIDEoN Conf, 101:03: There will be more of these - there’s no question - .. what we need to do - to survive as a species - is - as humans - is to create an integrated network that allows us to detect these (Covid-style events) early and to respond to them as a world.
To survive as a species. We need an international surveillance system. Ruled by scientists with CCP-leanings.
Which is what we’ve now got.
As a case study - scientists detected Covid early - can’t get earlier than causing it - didn’t help a lick for preventing it - feels like it was more about responding as a world?
As a dumb respondee, wouldn’t it be more efficacious/cheaper - with less privacy-invasion - to simply stop scientists playing GoF with our future?
Shi Zhengli, holding a picture of her mentor, W. Ian Lipkin.
(Found this Dec 1, 2021 on Twitter. The writer said the photo was from the 90’s. Skeptical, I did some research - sent it to a housemate from Kensington, back in the day. We didn’t need carbon-date analysis to tell us that’s the 80’s. She thinks early-80’s. Few other things wrong in the thread (Karesh is not in the photo - nor did he found One Health - Kaplan/Kahn did) but great photo - well delved.)
Yeah, but, some will say, that’s unfair to single out Lipkin - everyone knows he’s up to his eyeballs in CCP collaborations - one case is not reason to taint the whole One Health Initiative. You’re using Lipkin as a Strawman.
And they’d be dead right. So how about the One Health Editorial Board?
Looking at the list - there are some names i don’t know about - but a lot do jump off the page.
Peter Daszak, William Karesh, Jonathan Epstein - EcoHealth Alliance: (Esptein also has Columbia ties). EcoHealth is available for CCP/CIA influence and WIV collaborations. If Covid is a lab-leak then there’s a good chance EcoHealth scientists were directly involved in engineering it.
Thomas Briesse - Columbia/WHO: Columbia, home of Ian Lipkin, has ties with the CCP over decades and operates joint labs in China. Like Lipkin, Briese has been involved with China since SARS. Collaborated with GIDEON founders Lipkin and Lu Jia-hai at Sun Yat-sen University as recently as March 2021.
Marion Koopmans, WHO Covid investigator: Golden Rule: if a totalitarian surveillance state vets, then approves you, you’re suss. Concluded that a lab-leak is extremely unlikely. Feb 1 Teleconferencer. At the pointy end of Covid politics.
Malcolm Jones, Editor-in-Chief, University of QLD: Jones (Feb14, 20): Members of the Coronavirus family (Coronaviridae) are quintessential One Health viruses. .. This approach of environmental surveillance forms part of the PREDICT strategy. [20]
Rowland N. Cobbold, (and the extravagantly named) Ricardo Jorge Soares Magalhaes - both UQ: Along with Columbia, Oxford, Duke, and University of Sydney - UQ is a notorious pro-CCP academic institution. With three One Health reps on the board, same as EcoHealth. Can be relied on to deliver the CCP’s messaging.
Vincent J. Munster - NIAID (The Fauch’s kingdom): collaborated with Koopmans on Feb 2020 paper downplaying Covid, praising CCP’s response.
Then we have six Chinese academics from state-run institutions including:
Lu Jia-hai - Sun Yat-sen University: Lipkin’s GIDEON collaborator, conducts joint projects with Columbia involving Lipkin and Breise.
Wenbao Zhang - Xinjiang Medical University: Xinjiang Medical boasts 21 purged Uyghur academics relocated to vocational training camps - academia is not an approved vocation.
Conclusion: The One Health Initiative, that’s campaigning for a centralized data-base of personalized health info - is controlled by pro-CCP functionaries?
That’s crazy - but if it’s true - it’s a clear and present danger to the freedom of humanity.
One thing for sure - things are happening fast - Covid provided a catapulting effect into this sci-fi future gone wrong.
In it, drastic restrictions on freedoms are justified due to Covid. Ethicists, sociologists are howled down (imprisoned if you’re in China). It’s all about
Now it’s hurtling us towards bio-surveillance on a planetary scale. If we don’t stop this now it will be too late. Same way it’s too undo the
By its nature One Health wants to bring all world health organizations into its Oneness. Take Daszak for example: President of EcoHealth, on the Editorial Board of One Health, investigator for WHO.
Or Christian Drosten, the Coronavirus Tzar, Feb 1 Teleconferencer, WHO advisor, Director Charité Global Health. The common theme is pedaling fear of a zoonotic doom.
Charité Global Health: Charité Global Health is currently in the process of negotiating collaborations with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford. (Sir Jeremy Farrar’s realm)
Drosten (2018): In an increasingly globalized world, preparedness against epidemics is becoming more and more important. Viruses don’t respect borders.
It all melds together. It’s impossible to know where one organization stops and the other begins - they are one organism.
One Health evangelists refer to this as lateralizing - breaking down the silos - absorbing them into the One Health agenda.
Dr Qu Dong-yu, PRC, Director General, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (appointed Aug 1, 2019(!)), May 2021: This panel will contribute to advancing the One Health agenda, by ..being a shining example of silo-breaking, systems thinking and open dialogue. Expectations for collective action and the need for effective collaboration have never been higher. (due to Covid)
For investigators, this shifty Oneness, collective action concept can become disorientating - even nauseating - who’s in charge here? Who’s accountable?
But if you recognize that that’s their key weapon - the impenetrable fog - you’ll soldier on - it’s just fog. (The Andrews’ Govt’s enquiry that found ‘no-one was responsible’ was a great example of how systems thinking works to envelop - it’s no surprise Dan Andrews went on to make Melbourne the world capital in #TheWarOnFreedom. Good job Dan. Melbourne used to be a cool city - now it’s the Most Animal Farm world record holder in human response to Covid. Covid will never be forgotten. You wrote Melbourne into history)
So when Qu says collective action there are real people directing that action. Paradoxically, despite the fog, they’re hiding in plain sight. Just ask ’em …
Bruce Kaplan (One Health co-founder): This is evidenced by the numerous national and international meetings, symposia, “official” governmental agencies and unofficial organizations, university institutions and grass roots individuals (UFWD?) as well as “VIPs” raising the banner for more One Health performance and execution. .. A host of recent VIPs and prominent organizational endorsements have encouraged and helped by articulating One Health positions and endorsements.
I bet they have. Very Important People - it’s very important to remember that they’re still people - that have their greasy mitts on the wheel of the following:
BMJ Global Health Feb 2019: (A) number of related movements have gained traction among health policymakers and funders over the past 15 years, including One Health, EcoHealth and Planetary Health. Since 2010, political and financial attention to One Health has surged, with several developments in the last 3 years.
So a surging increase in power and money. Very people things.
BMJ Global Health: FAO (Dr Qu Dong-yu, Director General), OIE (World Animal Health Information System) and WHO (Tedros) launched a strategy for partnership (known as the Tripartite Concept Note) in April 2010 ..based on One Health principles. The Tripartite released a second strategic document in 2017 reaffirming its commitment to ‘more broadly embrace the One Health approach’.
Again, sounds nice, probably started with good intentions, but it’s become a power/data centralization device - a honeypot for despots. Sadly, that’s the fatal flaw of globalization. It’s why Aristotle favoured the small state - the polis (got him charged with impiety - same rap they got Socrates on - except Aristotle escaped - died shortly after in exile). It’s easier to keep an eye on who’s up to what. The ideal-sized state was one where you could hear the town-crier.)
BMJ Global Health: Results*: We found that recent attention to One Health at high-level political fora has increased power struggles .. with stakeholders shifting operationalisation in directions most aligned with their own interests.*
Otherwise known as human nature. A condition that scientists keep telling us they don’t have. It’s their opening premise.
The One Health Oneness comes with its own built in rightness. It’s a one-god-type model. If you don’t agree you are therefore wrong. We are all one on one planet in one universe.
Except we’re not. We’re different.
Existential psychology is based on the exact opposite tenet to One-Everything - ultimately, we’re all alone. Our lives are the dynamic of how we accept/deny that scary knowledge. To some extent it rings a bell - we need to cooperate - we don’t need to be One. It’s not the answer. The magic formula is diversity. Oneness sucks the life out of that.
Recap:
When your mind boggles at the sheer scale of the cover-up complicity in the Covid Atrocity, the One Health-model provides compelling evidence of how a culture was invaded/dominated. That’s normal - it’s what cultures do if you let them. It’s not only scientists. Under cover of the night - people - scientists or normal people - do - immoral things. Which is what happened with the One Health culture.
As Covid emerged One-Health took disparate cultures to a unified global-level of bio-control. This power-play determines the future of humanity.
The thing about The Future - it doesn’t have to be one particular way - despite the messaging.
Pre-Covid, all of the above was going on - by stealth. If we can find a positive in Covid, it would be that it’s blown the lid on this drift towards global totalitarianism (lest we forget - the lid-blowing didn’t happen by itself - took groups like DRASTIC - other random people - working independently).
The prevailing wind will be:
Now’s not the time to talk about that coz we’re concentrating on the current evolving emergency!
But that’s a deflective tactic from the same people that brought us Covid. Now’s a great time to talk about it.
Even if the One Health Tripartite ever did finish with their evolving emergencies, which they never ever will, it would be too late. It’s designed that way.
The One-Everything zealotry sounds nice initially - if you want to get to the root cause of it - i blame Sir Bob Geldof (warning: graphic content) - though he genuinely didn’t know what he was doing.
The next step is to take a look at those who did know what they were doing - and what’s at stake here, aka: Why?
It’s not pretty.
Jeremy Farrar’s/Wellcome’s/ BGI Genomics’s (China) role in the Genomics Revolution - brought to you by One Health.
When One Healthers talk about amassing the planet’s bio-data on a centralized system, the jewel in the crown is genomic surveillance capability. In plain terms: they’re coming for your DNA.
(Update: It was instructive that Macron refused a Russian PCR test recently. Why?: (W)e could not accept that they get their hands on the president’s DNA,)
Edward You, U.S. national counterintelligence officer for Emerging and Disruptive Technologies: China is developing the world’s largest bio database. Once they have access to your genetic data, it’s not something you can change like a pin code.
This is the meeting of minds - where THE Science/CCP-thought aligns. Ethics is placed on extended leave. Championing this bio-data grab are three pro-CCP co-authors from the notorious Proximal Origin paper.
Andersen, Holmes, Rambaut (2018): We urge those working on infectious disease to focus funds and efforts on a much simpler and more cost-effective way to mitigate outbreaks — proactive, real-time surveillance of human populations. This will best be achieved through an established global network .. such as the WHO.
Remember this is the same such as WHO/One Health/EcoHealth Alliance/NIH, who, in the critical early days, told us:
At the same time shutting down crucial advice from Taiwan, which i’d list, though it’s simpler to:
re-read the above - make it the exact opposite.
Such a pity the world didn’t follow Taiwan’s advice: Covid would have been stamped out by the 29th of April 2020. But the Taiwan silo wasn’t absorbed into the One Health Concept - why? - coz WHO banned them from giving input.
The best kid in the class in terms of how to stop this global catastrophe unfolding - was not the Global One Health lot - it was Taiwan. But you expelled them from school.
Then provided advice that caused Covid to spread globally.
A year later, a WHO investigation (including One Health Editorial Board members Daszak & Koopmans), proudly vetted by the CCP, announced a lab-leak was extremely unlikely.
So not real big on truth and integrity inside these Global Health Cohorts are we? Same people acquiring the world’s mega-data - none of which helped prevent or stop Covid - especially compared to Taiwan’s approach - so what are you doing with it?
Andersen/Holmes/Rambaut (2016): Given the development of portable sequencing technologies, real-time viral genome sequencing is now possible in clinics and diagnostic laboratories, including in resource-limited settings. .. The need for immediate analysis and the growth of open sharing of sequence data means the challenge in genomic studies may be moving from data acquisition to analysis and interpretation.
Ok, so now that we’ve got it - the challenge is to how to wield it? But do we trust these people with our genomic data?
Andersen, Holmes, Rambaut-18): *Second, ethical, *rigorous *and standardized protocols for the collection of samples and data from patients should be established (by) .. a global consortium involving the ministries of engaged countries to *facilitate *the *generation *and *sharing of that information.
The authors’ of the Prox O pangolin/wetmarket discourse, wrote it to face-save/save sino-CCP collaborations. Yes the CCP is known for being rigorous. Ethical …? Not so much:
Uyghur DNA collecting study: The national physical examination (NPE) is a free physical examination provided by the Chinese government for all Xinjiang people. .. The data came from the physical examination data of Urumqi in 2018. .. This study was performed in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region CDC ethical committee.
That’d be fine, right? They’re using the Helsinki principles - with an autonomous ethical committee …
Andersen, Holmes, Rambaut-18: A helpful analogue is the approach used by the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative, which .. has used standard consent-form guidelines (the Helsinki ones?) for collecting DNA samples from subjects.
As a potential subject, glad you guys brought that up. African countries (along with China) have become a frontier hub of DNA gathering activity due to corrupt/compliant/enthusiastic governments, a “host of VIP’s”, and a centralized western media that knows how to butter bread. It’s open-slather. Without restraint. That’s Kurtz territory.
Let’s take a closer look at what goes on there.
NIH (US): H3Africa (Human Heredity & Health), announced in June 2010, is organized and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)* and the Wellcome Trust, a global *charity based in London.
So a DNA collecting initiative in Africa, currently funded by NIH (Dr. Francis Collins - the Godfather of Genomics) and Wellcome (Sir Jeremy Farrar).
Money which buys you the holy grail of data - personalized DNA. (We’ll check back with Dr. Collins and Sir Jeremy soon - spoiler: both were frontline Covid narrators.)
H3Africa website: There is currently a global effort to apply genomic science and associated technologies (big-tech algorithms - Kristian Andersen’s specialty?) to further the understanding of health and disease in diverse populations.
Sure is. It’s this global effort to apply genomic science that worries me. There’s a truck-load of ethical issues that need to be worked through before we catapult into some genomic surveillance wet-dream of CCP-aligned scientists.
Nature: H3Africa researchers realized they needed to revise research regulations and procedures for gaining the public’s trust .. rather than just collecting blood and leaving — the approach disparagingly referred to as helicopter research.
Helicoptered off to the NIH/Wellcome Trust’s personal cloud computers.
H3Africa website: (T)here exists an enormous opportunity to utilize such approaches to benefit African populations and to inform global health.
If you really want to benefit African populations and inform Global Health, then work to reduce entrenched corruption. That’s the upstream problem. Plain as the nose on your face.
But wait … colonialism set that system up - that’d also mean we couldn’t continue being corrupt (for the common good) … so … let’s take the politics out! - dig in while the DNA’s there to be gobbled up.
If we don’t, someone else will … Could even be the bio-terrorists!
H3Africa website: H3Africa empowers African researchers (to be DNA helicopter pilots), .. establishes and nurtures effective collaborations (with NIH and Wellcome).. and generates unique data that could be used to improve both African and global health.
Could be. Could be used for a lot of things.
Nature: Last year, for example, the (Wellcome)Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, came under fire for licensing a gene chip based on African genome data to US biotechnology company Thermo Fisher, which was planning to manufacture the chip for a profit. (Thermo Fisher - another bad actor we’ll get around to later)
Springer: Gene chips are postage stamp-sized glass wafers that contain half a million or more tiny cells. Each cell holds DNA from a different gene. This array makes it possible to carry out a very large number of genetic tests on a single sample of genomic DNA at one time.
Nature: This infuriated both the African researchers who had collaborated with the British team and the Ugandan study participants, who had not consented to the deal.
The above only came to light after whistleblowers raised concerns.
Deepti Gurdasani: It’s great to see the silence around this being broken. Myself, and another whistleblower were dismissed after we raised concerns about this to senior management at @sangerinstitute and @JeremyFarrar at @wellcometrust*. Eight more people were made redundant.*
by dulan drift, Sunday, July 25, 2021, 07:03
H3Africa is funded by NIH and Wellcome Trust.
Sir Jeremy has been Director of Wellcome Trust since 2013.
Wellcome website: Jeremy is a member of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), the UK Vaccine Taskforce and the Principles Group of the ACT-Accelerator hosted by the WHO, and he chairs the WHO R&D Blueprint Advisory Group.
So very powerful - fundamentally connected with WHO and the One Health concept.
Stat: Wellcome Trust (issues) grants from an endowment valued at about $26.5 billion. .. As a private funder of biomedical research, the Wellcome Trust is second in size only to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Guardian: (As) the world’s third largest charitable foundation, dispensing around £700 million each year .. (and) the largest non-governmental funder of research within the UK system, Wellcome has an increasingly powerful voice in science policy.
Farrar has spoke-personed this increasingly powerful voice (VIV - Very Important Voice?) to manifest Wellcome’s vision regarding human genomic surveillance.
Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny: He’s a visionary .. he is willing to take risks.
Apart from H3Africa, Wellcome shares/bankrolls a risky vision with the China Kadoorie Biobank - a genomic collection 7-up style initiative in China.
China Kadoorie Bio-bank website: The CKB is being conducted jointly by University of Oxford .. and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS).
More interesting bed-fellows… (edit: CAMS-Oxford are removing their online presence - still one here)
China Kadoorie Bio-bank: The long-term continuation of the study is supported by the Wellcome Trust, with further support in China from the Chinese Natural Science Foundation and Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.
Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology - think about those words - in a Totalitarian regime - that extracts DNA from/organ harvests prisoners of conscience.
Of all you brainiacs with immense power, not one of you thought jumping into bed with the CCP to shape the future of humanity might be a bad idea?
China Kadoorie Bio-bank: The information generated will advance our understanding of .. aetiology not only in China but also in other countries.
Had to look aetiology up. It means the study of root causes. Cool - me too.
With Australian Aborigines, it was someone’s, a woman’s job, to carry/nurture a smouldering stick when you moved camp - so you wouldn’t have to do the friction trick every time.
If that stick was the embers of scientific spirit, then Richard Ebright/Simon Wain Hobson have kept the fire alive. They were warning, way back since the Anthrax-inspired funding boom, that reckless GoFx$ would cause - a catastrophic pandemic -
Then there’s your DRASTIC collective - including @billybostickson - they smelled a rat with Covid - pursued it - persisted. That’s the important bit.
Plus others - including not-scientists - normal people - more than real scientists - a sign that science-culture has lost its way?
But it wasn’t:
the fairies that came along in the night
It was netizens working hard/fast/for free.
Nor was it the guilty parties coming clean of their own volition.
Corruption never stops by itself. Ever
With Genomic Surveillance, Yves Moreau has been the stick carrier - through the Wellcome/Thermo Scientific/BGI/CCP/Western Academic typhoons - he kept it going - used that ember to shine a light on the truth.
Sadly, he’s very much in the minority so far as the scientific community goes - which makes his work more valuable.
Let’s take a look at what he reported…
Yves Moreau: (Dec 2019) In Xinjiang, police collected biometric information (including blood samples, finger-prints and eye scans) from nearly 19 million people in 2017, in a programme called ‘Physicals for All’. This was part of a suite of measures that are being used by the Chinese government to control the Uyghur ethnic group.
Other nations are building massive DNA databases or considering doing so. In 2015, Kuwait passed a law mandating DNA profiling of its entire population .. (while) Kenya passed a law that would have .. required all citizens to submit biometric information, including DNA profiles, to a national database.
Moreau gleaned some of his info from publications by DNA evangelists, such as Tim Schellberg, president of Gordon Thomas Honeywell - a law firm (!) connected to Thermo Fisher.
Schellberg cheerfully predicts: the development of civil-DNA databases (for all) is inevitable. (go.nature.com/337pjce (copy-paste it)).
Schellberg: Significant Hurdles: Open and public parliamentary process, Culture of being influenced by opposition and protests.
To leap these hurdles, he trumpets the following success stories:
Schellberg: Missing Persons: Chinese Ministry of Public Security’s aggressive DNA missing person’s program is key reason for success.
He also points out that whereas “fingerprints do not work for small children” - DNA collection does!
Facilitating this east-meets-west DNA-grab is Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Yves Moreau: The deployment of DNA-surveillance infrastructure in Xinjiang, for example, was enabled by the Chinese government buying products from — and working with — the US company Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The firm is currently the global leading supplier of DNA-profiling technology in law enforcement. Thermo Fisher Scientific researchers have worked with China’s Ministry of Justice, and with researchers at the People’s Public Security University of China, which falls directly under the Ministry of Public Security, to tailor the technology specifically for use in Tibetan and Uyghur populations.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, along with Wellcome, under Sir Jeremy Farrar, are serial offenders in the mis-use of collected DNA.
Genome Web: In April 2018, four researchers sent a complaint to the Wellcome Trust, which provides Sanger’s funding, about the institute’s $2.2 million deal with Thermo Fisher Scientific to develop microarray chips based on African genetic data it had collected through a number of collaborations.
Which is where lawyers come in handy. The whistleblowers were subsequently fired. Now it’s onward and upward.
Thermo Fisher website: Imagine what can happen when DNA testing takes only minutes, instead of days, weeks, or even months. The compact, easy-to-use Applied Biosystems RapidHIT ID System generates forensic DNA profiles in virtually any setting in as little as 90 minutes—and no technical expertise is required.
Safer communities are within reach. Rapid DNA helps solve crimes today and prevent victims tomorrow.
Collecting DNA from duped subjects in Africa and using it for your own money-hungry purposes is a crime - against humanity.
As is supplying technology to a totalitarian regime to oppress Uyghurs and Tibetans.
You don’t even need a compact, easy-to-use RapidHIT ID System to solve that crime - a modicum of uncorrupted political will should do the trick. Unfortunately, there’s no device for injecting that yet.
Yves Moreau: Restrictions .. are too weak. .. For example, US laws forbid the export of fingerprint-recognition technology to some users deemed problematic .. such as the Chinese police. But .. does not restrict the export of more-invasive DNA-profiling and facial-recognition technologies.
All of us must beware a world in which our behavioural, financial and biometric data, including our DNA profiles, or even entire genome sequences, are available to corporations — and law enforcers and political parties. Without changes .. the use of DNA for state-level surveillance could become the norm.
BGI.com.global: Our Simple Mission:
To provide researchers and healthcare professionals with quality genomic data and genetic testing solutions, at rapid turnaround times with industry leading pricing.
BGI Genomics is the world’s leading provider of genomic sequencing services and proteomic services, now serving customers in more than 100 countries. We provide (the following) .. with integrated genomic sequencing and proteomic services and solutions(:)
academic institutions
pharmaceutical companies
health care providers
and other organizations
Atlantic Council: Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) (is) a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company referred to as the “Huawei of genomics”.
Gen News: (Feb 26, 2020) The coveted last slot of this year’s AGBT conference*, the premier genomics conference held in Florida every winter, promised to be a blockbuster with the title:
First $100 genome sequencing enabled by new extreme throughput DNBSEQ platform.
Technology Review: (pay site): (T)he Chinese gene giant BGI Group (announced) it will make genome sequencing cheaper than ever breaking the $100 barrier for the first time ever.
(Woo-hoo! More genomic gold for the People’s Republic of Totalitarianism/Western Scientists.)
Radoje Drmanac, CSO of MGI (owned by BGI): It’s not unthinkable that a $10 genome may be (possible). At future AGBTs, we’ll hopefully present even crazier innovations and breakthroughs.
CBS: The financial stakes for dominating the global biotech sector — the industry that’s bringing us the COVID vaccine — are staggering, estimated to be worth up to $4 trillion a year. For perspective, that’s more than the valuation of Amazon and Apple combined.
Gen News: Radoje (Rade) Drmanac, CSO of MGI, was a co-founder of Complete Genomics, which ..launched in 2008 with its novel DNA NanoBalls (DNB) platform. .. (A)fter going public (it) was acquired by BGI for about $117 million in 2013. MGI (is) the company’s next-gen subsidiary.
Gen News: What made (you) think of using an antibody?
Radoje Drmanac: It just hit me, like, why in the world are we trying to do this indirectly when antibodies can recognize the base?
Gen News: Drmanac says that it is very cheap, highly specific and there is no cross talk. Not doing this earlier, he explains, was “a simple mental block in our inventions.”
Technology Review: The Shenzhen company says the low cost will be possible with (Drmanac’s) “extreme” DNA sequencing system .. capable of decoding the genomes of 100 000 people per year.
Radoje Drmanac: (This) is not going from bad to good - it‘s going from excellent to extremely excellent.
Gen News: CoolMPS (MPS stands for massively parallel sequencing) is the first nucleobase-specific antibody-based sequencing chemistry.
Jeremy Farrar, Director Wellcome Trust: Understanding humanity’s genetic code is not only going to be fundamental to the medicine of the future, it is an essential part of medicine today. .. The Wellcome Trust has invested more than £1 billion in genome research that has built this understanding .. (and) will further exploit this knowledge for medical advances that help patients, within a robust ethical framework that relies on their informed consent.
Wellcome Genome Campus: Congenica is a digital health company enabling genomic medicine with the world’s leading clinical decision support platform for accelerated genomic data interpretation.
Built on a foundation of clinical genomics expertise, we develop software .. and services that make the use of complex genomic data routine, accessible and ubiquitous*. Our headquarters are on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, UK, however, our reach is global.*
Gryphon Scientific (p 64): A partnership between UK genomics software company Congenica and BGI Genomics in 2017 to bring advanced drugs to China, through which Congenica received funding from BGI and access to genomic data from the Chinese population, and BGI gained access to Congenica’s DNA analysis software Sapientia.
Congenica/Wellcome (17 Sep 2018): Congenica, the global diagnostic decision support platform provider, today announced it has entered into an agreement with a new strategic partner Digital China Health Technologies Cooperation Limited (DCHealth), further extending Congenica’s commitment to the Chinese market.
*The new partnership will see Congenica develop a version of its Sapientia™ platform designed to enable clinicians and patients in China to benefit from the clinical genomics and *personalised medicine revolution.
Dr David Atkins, CEO Congenica: China is an important market for Congenica and this new relationship with DCHealth gives us greater insight into what the local market requires to accelerate the broader use of genomic medicine.
Dr Andy Richards, Chairman Congenica: Congenica is at the exciting scale up stage of its commercial development. .. (A)t the forefront of the fast-moving genomics market, Congenica has demonstrated how, with the right investment and leadership, the UK can build world-leading technology companies. .. (W)ith this additional commercial partnership in China, it is poised to become the leading clinical genomics services provider.
Farrar/Koopmans/Nature (Nov 6, 2019): As well as potentially supporting diagnosis and surveillance, the fast-developing field of genomic epidemiology (and) ..(f)uture developments in predictive technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence will bring more opportunities to move towards ‘precision public health’.
Gryphon Scientific: Precision medicine entails the use of genetic and other information to tailor the treatment of an illness to the individual, compared to classical medicine where treatment is by and large the same for all.
Farrar/Koopmans/Nature: *(I)t will be a challenge to persuade countries to invest in a new surveillance system, for example, before its general effectiveness has been *demonstrated at a country level.
Nov 6, 2019 - interesting date to be promo-ing the need for a genomic surveillance-system demonstration.
Fortunately, your big-opportunity - for a demonstration - had already had it’s
even as you spoke - it was quietly welling.
Wellcome: Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics have been pioneers in genetic discovery, leading the ‘genetic revolution’ .. in both Genetic Discovery as well as Statistical Genetics. .. The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics remains poised to be at the forefront of the field.
Wellcome/BGI/Oxford paper (Feb 14, 2017):11,670 whole-genome sequences representative of the Han Chinese population from the CONVERGE project. (title)
Can you back-off with your CONVERGE everything? What if i don’t want to be converged?
Abstract
The China, Oxford and Virginia Commonwealth University Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology (CONVERGE) project on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) sequenced 11,670 female Han Chinese at low-coverage (1.7X), providing the first large-scale whole genome sequencing resource representative of the largest ethnic group in the world.
So this is a personality-disorder based exploration. What could that be used for by a totalitarian regime i wonder?
Samples are collected from 58 hospitals from 23 provinces around China. We are able to call 22 million high quality single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) from the nuclear genome, representing the largest SNP call set from an East Asian population to date.
So when they talk about the biggest bank robberies - this is the biggest ever SNP hoist - to date.
We use these variants for imputation of genotypes across all samples, and this has allowed us to perform a successful genome wide association study (GWAS) on MDD. (MAD people)
The utility of these data can be extended to studies of genetic ancestry in the Han Chinese and evolutionary genetics when integrated with data from other populations.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
by dulan drift, Saturday, July 31, 2021
Gryphon Scientific, Feb 14, 2019: Through investments and research partnerships with US institutions, Chinese biotechnology companies are .. amassing large collections of clinical and genetic data on US residents (and everyone else).
Epoch Times: China’s state-funded BGI, for example, bought the U.S. sequencing company Complete Genomics, giving the Chinese company access to a DNA database that contained the private genetic information of large numbers of Americans.
Gryphon Scientific: At least 23 companies with a nexus to China are certified .. by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), giving them direct access to US medical and health data. .. Theoretically, access to private information on security-sensitive US persons creates a risk of blackmail and may reveal health conditions exploitable in a targeted attack.
China has numerous laws requiring or authorizing access to private-sector data by the central government.
Reuters: BGI says it stores and re-analyzes left-over blood samples and genetic data from .. prenatal tests, sold in at least 52 countries. The tests – branded NIFTY for “Non-Invasive Fetal TrisomY” – also capture genetic information about the mother.
One BGI study fused a military supercomputer to re-analyze NIFTY data and map the prevalence of viruses in Chinese women, look for indicators of mental illness in them, and single out Tibetan and Uyghur minorities to find links between their genes and their characteristics.
(That’s taking the politics out - by taking the genes out.)
Gryphon Scientific: BGI has received state support, including a ten-year, $1.5 billion loan from China Development Bank in 2010, which enabled it to purchase 128 HiSeq 2000 sequencers (from Illumina).
Wellcome: More recently in a collaboration with Illumina, our WGS500 project, aimed to get a sense how whole genome sequencing could impact on clinical medicine.
(powering the heroes (Wellcome/BGI) working around the clock .. to conduct surveillance .. for years to come …)
Gryphon Scientific: BGI is a world leader in sequencing, and has at times had the world’s largest capacity (in terms of amount of DNA sequence produced), often vying for the top spot with US-based Illumina.
Huanming Yang, Chairman and Co-Founder of BGI (2012): BGI greatly welcomes this opportunity to partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring the benefit of genomics research to our global society.
Dark Daily: (2016): BGI was among 70 organizations, including the Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institutes of Health, that formed an alliance “to improve how genomic and clinical data are managed and shared.” .. (A) planning meeting drew experts from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
“The industry participants responded enthusiastically to the idea of a global alliance,” the group’s whitepaper said.
Gryphon Scientific: Other top genomics companies in China include WuXi NextCODE, Novogene, and CloudHealth Genomics.(p108) WuXi NextCODE arose from the acquisition of US-based NextCODE Health by WuXi PharmaTech. The company provides an online database and platform for genomics data as well as sequencing services; further, it boasts the first sequencing facility in China to be accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
Scripps Research: Scripps Research Board of Directors .. Ge Li, PhD (Columbia), Founder, Chairman and CEO WuXi AppTec
Kristian Andersen/Scripps (Prox O lead-author): At the Andersen Lab at Scripps Research we try to understand .. how viruses emerge, spread, evolve. .. (by) using an integrated approach of computation, experimentation, genomics, and large-scale data.
Andersen/Rambaut/Holmes/Nature: We urge those working on infectious disease to focus funds and efforts on .. proactive, real-time surveillance of human populations.
Prof. Lisa Ikemoto, law/ethics: People are now being mined for their raw materials. It raises concerns about what it means to be human in this world.
Reuters: A research study conducted by a (Curtin) faculty member that helps Chinese facial recognition software better identify ethnic Uyghurs by the academic Wanquan Liu and co-authors at Chinese universities in 2018 .. had breached its ethics code.
Wanquan Liu, Curtin Uni, Aus: (F)ace recognition has great application potential in border control, customs check, and public security.
Reuters: The incident is the latest in a spate of controversies involving Chinese ethnic profiling research on Uyghurs .. under heavy surveillance by authorities in .. Xinjiang.
China denies all accusations of mistreatment or discrimination in Xinjiang.
Ancestry terms and conditions: You grant royalty-free worldwide sub-licensable transferable license to host, transfer, process, analyze, distribute and communicate your genetic information.
Prof. Lisa Ikemoto, law/ethics: Lisa Ikemoto: We’re so used to filling out, sort of, scrolling through these long documents online to upload the app or whatever it is and then just clicking the ‘I agree’ button at the end. .. (Y)ou’re giving up all rights. (LAUGH) And any potential commercial interest in the use of your DNA by AncestryDNA.
Gryphon Scientific (p115): (T)he handling of the data is not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) healthcare data protection law, raising concerns about privacy and data security.
US Dept of Defense: (S)ome direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies are encouraging DOD personnel to purchase genetic ancestry and health information through the offering of military discounts or other incentives. These DTC genetic tests are largely unregulated and could expose personal and genetic information and potentially create unintended security consequences.
Epoch Times: 23 companies associated with China are currently accredited in the US to perform molecular diagnostics or other genetic testing, including whole genome sequencing. Each of these companies “has access to individual patients genetic data.” Hospitals, clinics, and even some commercial DNA testing companies in the United States now routinely send DNA samples to China to be analyzed.
Washington Post: (WuXi AppTech) has helped finance an array of biotech start-ups, including the home DNA testing company 23andMe (also part-owned by Google).
Bill Evanina, former Director US Counter Intelligence: We know there’s an investment in the Chinese company in 23andMe. What we don’t know is, is there a data sharing agreement with that company or not?
Tech Crunch: DNA testing technology company 23andMe has raised just shy of $82.5 million in new funding ..from investors including Sequoia Capital (a Chinese investment company - which also funds WuXi AppTech).
Anne Wojcicki (founder 23andMe, ex-wife of Erin Sergei, Google founder): When we started the company we sat down with the leading privacy experts. And what they taught me was that, “Anne, privacy doesn’t mean that your data’s not shared anywhere.” It means that we have choice.
Forbes: Wojcicki wants to leverage the exponentially plunging costs of genetic sequencing (down 99% in a decade) and 23andMe’s massive DNA library (the world’s largest genetic research database) to fuel a “biotech machine”.
Richard Scheller, 23andMe’s chief scientist: I thought it was genius actually, that people were paying us to build the database.
Patrick Chung, 23andMe board member: Once you have the data, [the company] does actually become the Google of personalized health care.
Recap:
BGI, a state-controlled China genomics company, is working hand-in-glove with Wellcome, directed by Jeremy Farrar, to gather global DNA data. Farrar sees this scramble for genomics supremacy as Wellcome’s most important mission.
It was the desire to protect this core investment that potentially motivated Farrar to orchestrate the Covid cover-up. The key planks in the execution of this plan were the Proximal Origin paper and the Lancet Statement.
In the story of the Covid Atrocity, there are two documents that fooled the world (with help from their friends): Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 & The Lancet Statement
If you’re tracing back the Covid Cover-up Conspiracy, you wind up with two documents:
The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2
The Lancet Statement
The old one-two.
They are dear to me coz they were my entry point into seriously investigating the origin of Covid/having my private mental space invaded by the forces of One-Everything.
Dan started a thread on Formosahut about nCov on Jan 24 - we began noticing/recording some anomalies. I mentioned this to a scientist I was on good terms with.
The reaction was bristling - that took me aback - slightly. Sent a Feb 23 story from the Taipei Times on a scientists’ symposium raising the possibility of an engineered virus lab accident.
Email back:
The experts don’t believe in conspiracy
link to the The Lancet Statement
I read it. 27 world-leading experts saying scientists from a CCP-run bio-defense/weapons lab were open and transparent.
The language, was weirdly over-the-top - condemning conspiracy theorists - raving about unity/solidarity/standing together. With who? Totalitarianism?
Yeah - no. Whatever you do - don’t sign that. You will get badly burned. The CCP are open and transparent about not being open and transparent. Those 27-experts, (i had no idea who they were at the time) are spreading misinformation. Stay away from it.
The response was an animated cartoon praising China’s transparency/response/lockdown mentality - ridiculing the US (literally made by the CCP. Disturbingly, now that i check, it was platformed/plugged by the ABC. More than 2 years later - there’s still no evidence of the ABC having done a single investigative piece on the origin of the biggest story of our lifetimes. What does that mean?) It wasn’t sent ironically though - more like an explainer.
Followed up with derogatory article about an April 2020 5-G protest - linking Covid to 5G - haha! Actually it was called Corona back then - it was meant as a Strawman - if you click on the link the protesters are saying 5G depletes immunity - therefore makes people more susceptible to Covid. That’s not totally crazy thinking.
(Writing this later, i do the one-minute research, find a paper in Nature of places:
Andrew Wood, Swinburne: We believe the main biological effect of the electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones is a rise in temperature. There are also concerns that there could be more subtle effects, such as links between long-term exposure and certain types of cancer, but while there is some evidence from epidemiological and animal studies, these remain controversial.
The old some evidence is no evidence argument that has served THE Science community so well in the past. So long as you make sure it’s controversial - drag it out …
I don’t know anything about 5G. I do know we can’t trust the official THE science line. That’s annoying since they’re paid by the public. Does Joe Blow now have to work everything out for their own pronoun coz we can’t trust scientists to tell us the truth?
Note: I didn’t say any of this - it’s all later in my head.)
Next stop was banned from talking about Covid altogether. I’m sick to death of hearing about your boring conspiracy theories.
The End.
That’s sad. Another silent casualty of Covid. I know this person is well-intentioned at heart. Part of this journey is trying to understand how good people came to behave in reactionary ways - to cover-up the truth. Then figure out how to bring them back - to re-communicate - in a way that doesn’t vilify them - but - where the past is not swept under the carpet. That can’t be the answer. We can’t jump from censorship/ridicule to
- we’ve moved on -
In order to move-on, you’ve gotta be there in the first place. You can’t move on from Timbuktu if you’ve not been there. Society can develop a space where questions are allowed to be asked about this event that changed every human’s life. Let’s get there first - then we can talk about how to move on. Otherwise we’re moving on to the exact thing we need to move away from.
If the system is broken, which it is - we can still fix it.
But i’m getting ahead of things. The point is: by the time i’d digested The Lancet Statement, i knew:
this new virus is a lab-leak
There was/is no other reason for scientists to be issuing blatantly unscientific statements.
I checked a paper that the Lancet Statement cited in support of its premise - it was called Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.
Welcome to The Rabbit Warren
Started researching/writing/discussing Prox O on Formosahut with Dan - first posted on May 18, 2020. Don’t know how many drill-down referenced analyses of Prox O there were at that time - not many - none that i saw - by world-leading scientists or not.
It was quickly clear the pangolin premise was rubbish, but the fascinating part was the authors who concocted it. The COI’s were glaring.
Formosahut is a tiny forum - it’s Dan and I basically - the recess of the recesses of the internet. Privately, I posted on Lipkin’s and Holmes’s Wikipedia pages - painstakingly referencing every statement - no personal opinions - no adjectives - mainly using their own words. Information only. I thought it would be bullet-proof for those reasons, controversial as it was. It lasted two weeks. Pretty sure Lipkin and Holmes saw it. Lipkin in particular went from all-over-the-media-like-a-rash to radio silence.
After that it was like being attacked by those octopus machines from Matrix. The lead vandal was a user called Thucydides411 - but he had significant back-up. I was overwhelmed - blanked n blocked - with the usual conspiracy theorist name-calling. If you accept that the United Front Work Dept is a well-organized force, then you’ll know that Wikipedia is a prime medium to infiltrate/control. What it did show is:
This is an information war where our opponents won’t talk details.
The so called right-wing nutter conspiracy theorists calmly present referenced information, ask sensible questions.
The so-called progressives get angry, resort to name-calling, refuse to discuss details, use their power to censor/ban the discussion. Then replace it with misinformation. Telling themselves it’s for the common good.
This is the world we are living in.
In some ways it was satisfying to hit a nerve - but being shut down at every turn when you’re trying to do is investigate what the fuck happened here - it’s not pleasant. It’s too formidable.
Then - out of the blue - some contact came the other way - an intrepid Covid-origin researcher somehow found me. I knew he was intrepid coz no-one else had done it. That was:
@Billy Bostickson from Drastic - the Great Man (though i didn’t know who he was at the time)
Rabbit warrening - lonely is not the right word - a lot of it’s exciting - funny - but you are alone - in the warren - you lose touch with some stuff - it’s normal. The wall of rejection/censorship when you try to share your findings - there’s a reason why they call it the wall. (At first i couldn’t work it out - why is the media refusing to report the story of the millennium when the facts are staring them in the face? Wouldn’t that run against their instincts?) But that’s ok, the thing about a challenge is you’re not meant to be happy all the time - if you are - it’s not a challenge.
But you are happy knowing there’s someone in the real world shining a light. With others - a hardworking network. Showing leadership/energy/positivity. People have different abilities to different extents - Billy is Olympic-standard at light-shining - right when the world needed it - when the people we had trusted to do it - the experts - were betraying that principle.
Those Drastic core could retire tomorrow, play golf, grow tomatoes, history will immortalize them. They’ll be heroes. Unless it turns out like the edited CCP ending to Fight Club - in which case they’ll be fucked.
The censorship on the origin of Covid persists to this day. There’s still been no official investigation anywhere as to who is directing it or why. No-one has been held to account.
The outright vilification of origin-researchers has dropped off though - skipped a beat as a sentiment - but barely - before re-deployment to the vaccine-hesitant.
Meanwhile, the Covid Atrocity presents two challenges:
1. Expose the conspiracy to commit fraud
2. Prevent the desired outcomes of the frauders from becoming entrenched reality
The second one is the hardest - the most important - the most urgent.
It’s no good proving Covid was a lab-exit if the perps get everything they wanted - more funding for a global bio-state - run by One-Everything.
Of the two papers that fooled the world, the most important one was:
Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.
Aka the Pangolin Paper.
It supplied the science basis for engineering the world-view of Covid’s origin.
The BBC described it as the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak.
Pub: Mar 17, 2020 by Nature (draft completed Feb 1 - the date of the teleconference - where it was presented by Farrar/Andersen/Holmes - supplied the backbone for discussions)
Funded/supported by Wellcome & NIH (see acknowledgements)
The premise:
Horseshoe bats, possibly carrying RaTG13, (Mojiang cave incident, Yunnan*) managed to infect a population of at least 21 caged Malayan pangolin such as those smuggled into Guangdong (1000 km away). (*dismissed by WIV/EHA as a coronavirus incident)
Lipkin, Feb 10, 2020: The latest data suggest that an endangered mammal, the pangolin, may be the source of the new coronavirus. My colleagues and I have been working to shut down wildlife markets for decades. Perhaps the silver lining in this outbreak is that we finally get the traction needed to achieve this goal.
The non-shiny lining of course being millions of deaths - the evaporation of human freedoms.
The said pangolin were then transported to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan (1000 km another away), where they were slaughtered for sale.
Before their death, the bat virus is theorized by the authors to have pulled off an average of 50 years (according to Holmes - 20 years if you’re in a rush) of profound evolutionary change - where only that exact alignment in time of freak changes will work. In the caged pangolin environment, it aced the ACE-2 spike protein barrier to human infectivity - resulting in patient zero at the market - as many early cases of COVID-19 were linked to the Huanan (Seafood) market in Wuhan - then:
The Conclusion:
As such: Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus. .. (P)angolins…provide a much stronger and more parsimonious explanation of how the virus originated through natural selection.
Yeah, right.
Despite it being known at the time (!) that:
There’s your pangolin premise - collapsed in a heap - before it gets out of the starting gates.
Pile on all the fancy science you like after that - it’s a moot point when the premise is:
- wrong -
sorry to say.
Remember, this is not benefit-of-hindsight. The authors, of course, knew it was a whopper as they wrote it - that’s why they wrote it - but how did it go from there to:
All of the above chose to ignore glaring errors in the fundamental details of the paper. Why?
To perpetrate the greatest scientific fraud of all time.
That makes them hands-on complicit in the Covid Atrocity.
My name is Dulan Drift - i am a conspiracy theorist.
According to my research, the following men conspired to fabricate the Pangolin Paper to cover-up the origin of the Covid Atrocity:
Kristian Andersen. Edward Holmes, Robert Garry, Andrew Rambaut, Ian Lipkin
The web they weave:
They are big accusations - I’m confident i can prove it.
Man of Mystery! All the others have put themselves out there to pump the paper - but Rambaut stayed in the shadows. That’s intriguing. As a next generation computer-whiz, he has gone to some length to conceal his image. Turns out he’s the most handsome of the lot. Though there’s only one photo to judge by - on his Twitter account, which he doesn’t use.
Whereas Lipkin was bursting at the seams with on-the-record blabbering, Rambaut likes his privacy. That’s fine, but as a key ingredient of the Prox-O-5, you’re famous for all time Andrew - whether you like it or not.
You can still judge a man by the company he keeps - Oxford - specifically Nuffield Department. DPhil from Oxford in 1997 places him there at the same time as brothers-in-arms Farrar, Gao, Holmes, Worobey, Horby, et al. The Oxford-Edinburgh axis is at the centre of the Covid Conspiracy.
So as author of the greatest academic fraud of all time and a Feb 1 Teleconferencer, what does, let’s call you the other Prince Andrew, bring to this world-deciding table?
(E*)volutionary biologist specializing in emerging human viral pathogens*
Funny how the more human viral pathogenicists such as Randy Andy Rambo emerged as a fund-attracting force (largely funded by Wellcome) - the more emerging human viral pathogens emerged.
Rambaut is a genomic surveillance enthusiast - whose interests naturally include population engineering - which gets to crux of what this is all about:
- a bio-state coup -
He features as a Friendly Genius on Andersen’s Scripps website (along with Garry).
First person Holmes called with the sequence - published on Rambaut’s website.
Co-author with Andersen, Holmes, and Dudas (Edinburgh PhD student supervised by Rambaut) on the controversial Ebola Evolution paper in 2016.
SAGE member (with Jeremy Farrar), futurist (as is Farrar), funded in perpetuity by Wellcome.
The blank photo above is from a conference titled:
Next-generation molecular and evolutionary epidemiology of infectious disease: challenges and opportunities
Current Generation: Garry, Holmes, Lipkin
Generation Next: Rambaut & Andersen
Farrar is thy shepherd
Stalwart atTulane (since 1983), founded Zalgen labs (which has profited hugely from Covid).
NIH funded bioweapons expert (according to Andersen, who lists Garry as a Friendly Genius on his website), Feb 1 Teleconferencer.
The TWIV love-in panelist puts it best: 608 So you got into immuno-suppressive retroviruses - before HIV came along - and then worked on HIV - and then you got into emerging diseases - emerging infections - ahr - now of course we have a global pandemic of SARS-Covid-2, so i’m gonna be really really closely tracking what you do next! (general laughter)
Me too!
TWIV forgot to mention Ebola. The founder of The Consortium (with Andersen) which was mixed up in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, where they were researching Ebola as a bioweapon (to develop countermeasures). Origin never found but a narrative was: the toddler, the hollow tree, and the bat in a remote Guinea village.
Claimed Prox O draft was finished by Feb 1, 2020, the night before Feb 1 Teleconference.
Garry on TWIV, 12:20: Eddie and the rest of us recognized that this was a virus that was gonna you know - it had a big chance of going the way it went just because the respiratory virus - and yeah - we started working on it really quite early. .. the first draft I think was complete in like February 1st.
Panelist, 13:04: So Robert, right from the get go there were theories about - well there were two right - which persist to this day - one is that it was manufactured in a lab and the other that it simply escaped in some way - so those were both - that’s part of the reason you wrote this right? - to deal with those ?
Garry: Well yeah! And when we wrote it we basically told ourselves, and it’s in an email chain and other things like that, we said we have to be totally agnostic about how this virus might have emerged.
Kristian Andersen: Scripps hotshot - lead-author.
Here’s a quote from what i wrote, May 18, 2020 on Fomosahut (the first publication in the world to drill-down on the Prox-O authors, sfaik):
Along with Holmes and Rambaut, Andersen is a genomic surveillance enthusiast:
“We urge those working on infectious disease to focus funds and efforts on a much simpler and more cost-effective way to mitigate outbreaks — proactive, real-time surveillance of human populations.”
Andersen works for Scripps Research Institute. Scripps was in financial trouble hemorrhaging 20 mil a year. But just when the first virus cases were emerging, they received great news. They issued a press release Nov 27, 2019:
“Scripps Research and Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (China) today announced a trans-Pacific chemical biology research collaboration that combines the expertise of both institutions.”
Presumably the financial expertise was more from the Chinese side of the equation. Shenzhen City Council and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School are backing the venture.
“Several Scripps Research chemical biology faculty will establish joint laboratories at Shenzhen Bay Laboratory with research areas including synthetic chemistry, natural products, glycobiology, chemical genetics, proteomics and other critical areas of chemical biology.
“Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL) is a recently established Guangdong Provincial Laboratory located in the heart of China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay area. SZBL strives to become a hub for world-class research at the forefront of health science and innovation, spurring novel solutions to the grand issues challenging mankind.”
So to break that down: a new bio-tech lab set up in the Hong Kong vicinity with the Hong Kong protest in full swing - in partnership with a financially flailing research institute, whose head scientist is a cheer-leader for genomic surveillance - funded with money from the CCP - in late Nov 2019.
No - nothing fishy about that at all!
Scripps also promotes remdesivir which was also endorsed by WIV. According to this article in Gulf News, Shi Zheng-li’s team “applied for a patent for the drug (remdesivir) in China on behalf of WIV.”
(Note: Washington Post: Daszak .. points out that one of his colleagues, Ralph Baric, .. worked with Gilead Sciences to develop the antiviral drug remdesivir and used virus strains that EcoHealth and its Chinese partners identified in the process, putting the United States ahead of the curve.)
Scripps board of directors includes Dr Ge Li, founder of WuXi PharmaTech.
WuXi AppTec website: Ge Li, Ph.D, Chairman and CEO (:)
Scientist and entrepreneur leading WuXi since its founding in 2000. Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Columbia University. Awards and honors include “2018 SAPA Distinguished Achievement Award”, “2018 The 40 Most Influential People in Pharmaceutical Industry in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up”, “2016 CBA Brilliant Achievement Award”.
CBA stands for Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association, USA.
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Garry describes Andersen as a generational scientist - the two are long-term collaborators/friends. Andersen is a founding member of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (with Garry), which was accused of causing the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. He co-authored Ebola Evolution with Holmes and Rambaut - a false narrative writing exercise (pub by Nature) that bears all the hallmarks of being a Prox-O blueprint (swap pangolin for toddler encountering bat in hollow tree (that was burnt to the ground) in remote village)
A big-data futurist - Once was a Twitter warrior - closed his account when the battle heated-up with Drastic.
KG: In the arms race between host and pathogen, there can only be one winner. Unfortunately for the human host, when the opponent is a highly severe virus, the result is often in favor of the pathogen.
(especially with a little help from THE science)
In the arms race for bioweapons research, caused by a fear of non-existent bioterrorists, the result is always in favour of the bio-scientists.
As mentioned, i first authored a Wikipedia post on Ian Lipkin back in May-June 2020. I also did Eddie Holmes. Along with the Formosahut thread, those two posts on Wikipedia represented the first in depth analysis on the planet of Proximal Origin and its authors. The posts were very-much gloves on - happily following all Wikipedia rules - no opinions, every statement referenced, quoting from the horse’s mouth. For my troubles i was blanked, blocked n abused. Doesn’t matter - managed to get under the skin of the subjects and prick their bubble of bullshit. We’ll see who wins in the end.
Lipkin, according to Garry, was brought on a little bit later - as the celebrity scientist salesman - with more ties to high-ranking China officials than Marco Polo. He didn’t attend the Feb 1 teleconference because he was in China meeting Li Ke-chiang and George Gao (18:30)
Lipkin: (41:46): I offered my services to President Xi, who I found very impressive.
His main job was to coordinate with the CCP, then hit the international media circuit when he arrived back in New York. As he says:
I was doing a lot of media.
A dedicated book on Lipkin is coming - all the research is there, now i’m dying to write it up coz he’s easily the funniest - he could not stop incriminating himself in all his interviews. In the meantime, here’s a list compiled in an earlier Formosahut thread:
So: CCP COI’s galore, thick as thieves with Wellcome/Farrar, has form with pedalling false origin narratives
We know the authors - we know all those who sold-it-on - but who was the master-mind? Who had the sheer audacity/the power to put this radical plan together? To create - the lie of the millenium - then enforce it - to shape/control world culture?
You’re thinking Fauci - yes of course he’s right up there - but the man who took the reins - in a crisis - brought it all together is:
Doesn’t seem like a long rap-sheet - but these were crucial plays - without which - none of this could have happened.
The Feb 1 Teleconference was in essence - The bosses - Farrar/Fauci/Collins - meeting with their highest paid pets.
Prox O Acknowledgments section: We thank M. Farzan for discussions, and the Wellcome Trust for support.
Farrar sees himself, as others do, as indeed he is: a PR genius. An ahead-of-the-curve calculator - decisive - man of action - not afraid to think big. Not afraid to act big.
This was Jeremy’s time to shine. For the public good.
Once you make that decision - the truth - no longer matters - you prosecute your case the same way a good lawyer would.
Fast Factoids: Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2:
All this In the crucial nascent period. Where if we’d known it was a GoFFed-up lab bug on the loose - we could have reacted accordingly.
But wait - there’s a silver lining!
Nature, Sep 2020: Through the ‘Solidarity’ trials*, the WHO has launched a global campaign to test therapeutic agents and vaccines on an unprecedented scale5. *
No, we’ll get to that in a different thread Nature, but we’re not going to be diverted from this question:
Was Proximal Origin knowingly concocted/pro-moed with the full-might of One-Everything - to cover up the origin of Covid?
The old one-two: Nature’s Prox was THE science - Lancet THE scientists endorsing it. Case closed.
Whatever anyone subsequently thought, heard, spoke, read, wrote, felt - in regard to Covid not being a lab-escape - its origin lies in these two documents. They are historical artefacts of the highest order.
Sir Jeremy Farrar was in-the-thick-of both of them. Calling the shots.
As Francis Collins says: Thanks for your leadership on this critical and sensitive issue.
If King Arthur of Genomics is thanking you for your leadership - in organizing the pivotal meeting on the response to the biggest catastrophe since WW2 -then you’re in historically rarefied air.
Released as a coordinated offensive, these two info-weapons were:
When it came to disseminating Covid misinformation and conjecture to the entirety of the planet - at the crucial time in the-history-of-everything - when the truth would have made all-the-difference - man - you guys hit humanity out of the park - into your own engineered parallel universe.
I marvel at the audacity - the scale of deception - as much as the catastrophic consequences.
Farrar - Lancet Statement
The Lancet Statement: The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins. .. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.
We support the call from the Director-General of WHO (Teddy Bear) to promote scientific evidence and unity over misinformation and conjecture.
We sign this statement in solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China .. We declare no competing interests.
When i read that first time, it blew me away. Straight off i knew the primary claims were false - easily disprovable - 3-move checkmate:
So what’s beyond stupid?
- Corruption -
It’s the only explanation. This is where you don’t need to be a scientist to solve the origin of Covid - probably better if you’re not - despite what you’re constantly told.
If 27 of the world’s leading scientists are saying: a totalitarian regime is open and transparent - straight away that statement tells you the world’s leading experts are lying. In a coordinated way.
Basic follow-up shows glaring COI’s amongst the authors/signatories.
Then you ask: Why are they lying?
The only answer is: Covid was a lab-exit that needs to be covered up - for the common good. (or: our leading experts are incredibly stupid)
By using power to quash legitimate speculation we might be dealing with:
an escaped, engineered super-bug from a bio-weapons/defense lab (!)
- knowledge that potentially would have shocked the world(!) into taking action to stop the international spread of the virus - these scientists have directly contributed to:
- the deaths of millions -
whilst justifying extremist restrictions on
- basic human freedoms -
That’s atrocious behaviour. Those that wrote/signed/pedalled these documents, including Sir Jeremy, will go down in infamy - so long as humanity (then AI) shall exist …
(unless they win of course - which they may very well do - in which case they’ll be heroes - i doubt AI’s gonna fall for it though)
Heavily redacted FOI emails from Fauci still reveal tantalizing details of how the cover-up went down - who the actors were for a start. Luckily, deduction also allows you to conclude ‘no evidence’ - is evidence.
An FOI action launched/persisted with/won by Buzzfeed/Freedom of Information activists produced these gems. Brilliant work. Keep it up.
But try googling the source of that effort for humankind - the first page is dominated by FactCheck* assuring us there’s nothing to see here. The actual sources have been shuffled out. Again, shows you the scale.
(*The lying done by FactCheck, PolitiFact’s Pants On Fire or the WP’s Four Pinocchios etc - in our moment of need - is a thread in itself. One quick example:
WP’s Glen Kessler: I fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus jump from the lab. Or the many interviews with actual scientists. We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves.)
Sir Jeremy and Dr Collins are the directors of Wellcome Trust and NIH.
Fauci, as we know, is director of NIAID - since 1984! The Fouch must’ve read that book thought it was a How-to Manual - he’s been at NIAID a total 54 years! Hard to get more deeply instated deep-state than that.)
This Feb 2 email - a day after the Feb 1 Teleconference - captured the atmosphere of the early days of Covid - which captured the atmosphere of the early days of Antrhax:
From:Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E)
Sent: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 17:13:03 +0000
To: Mark Dybul
Subject : RE: A connection to jake (Liang) (my brackets)
Mark:
Thanks for the note. Sorry that l had to cancel. This is White House in full overdrive and I am in the middle of it. Reminiscent of post -anthrax days.
Best,
Tony
Reminiscent of post-anthrax days. Yeah - eerily so. Seeing how anthrax was also caused by bio-defense scientists. Must have been a mad-scramble to cover that up as well, right?
Whilst in the middle of full-overdrive, Fauci lobbied for, then rode/controlled the explosion in biodefense funding and vaccine research/use - due to Anthrax - to fight bio-terrorism.
David Franz, ex-Commander USAMRIID (p14-15): The NIAID annual budget for biosecurity was increased from essentially zero dollars to $1.7 billion after the anthrax letters in 2001.
Which, remember, was perpetrated by US scientist(s) - who wanted to increase biodefense funding/power and vaccine research/use.
So it’s cool to get an insight into Fauci’s the buck stops power nexus through his FOI emails. The global health big boys. Fauci, Collins - they’re the God Fathers of GoF/Genomics - respectively.
Farrar is their One-Health love-child.
A secession - like Socrates-Plato-Aristotle’s pursuit of the truth - except a dastardly version.
Researching Covid - it’s an endless flow spewed out from a system-gone-wrong. Way more than you could ever collate in a bunch of lifetimes. You get swept along by it - record what you can as you go…
At some point though, you’ve gotta start swimming upstream.
See who lives up there.
The emails show: Sir Jeremey Farrar was calling the shots. Brackets are mine unless stated. All emails from this ref, uploaded by Dan. Thanks to Buzzfeed. -
Note: Have redacted the redactions - there were a lot. Included some later for analysis.
From: Kristian G. Andersen
Sent : Friday, January 31, 2020 10:32 PM
To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID)
*Cc: Jeremy *Farrar
Subject : Re: FW: Science: Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak ’s origins (Jon Cohen article - conspiracy theorist template)
Hi Tony,
Thanks for sharing. Yes, I saw this earlier today and *both Eddie and myself are actually quoted in it . It’s a great article, *but the problem is that our phylogenetic analyses aren’t able to answer whether the sequences are unusual at individual residues, except if they are completely off. On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir .
The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genom*e (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that* some of the features (potentially) look engineered*.* (Andersen’s brackets)
We have a good team lined up to look very critically at this, so we should know much more at the end of the weekend . I should mention that after discussions earlier today, Eddie (Holmes), Bob (Garry), Mike (Ferguson) (Wellcome Trust Governor), and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory*. *
But we have to look at this much more closely and there are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change.
Best,
Kristian
Not sure the opinions changed privately but they changed 180 degrees publicly - literally overnight - when Kristian and Eddie delivered Prox O’s alternative truth option at the following day’s Teleconference - arguing a natural origin from bats via pangolin.
*From: *Jeremy Farrar
Sent: Sat, Feb 1, 2020 1:13 PM
To: Fauci, Anthony, Patrick Vallance
Cc: Christian Drosten, Marion Koopmans, R.A.M. Fouchier, Edward Holmes Andrew Rambaut, Kristian G. Andersen, Paul Schreier (CEO Wellcome, since Sep 2, 2019), Mike Ferguson, Francis Collins
Subject: Re: Teleconference
Kristen and Eddie have shared this and will talk through it on the call. Thank you.
Hope it will help frame the discussions.
(There was a lot of sharing/cheering of this Jan 31 Jon Cohen Science article which features Dasak, sets template for the conspiracy theorist vilification campaign - or was it the Prox O draft itself?)
From :Jeremy Farrar, 1 Feb 2020 at 15:34
Information and discussion is shared in total confidence and not to be
shared until agreement on next steps.
(Actually not to be shared - ever - discussion details have been redacted. Why?)
Dial in details attached.
Please mute phones.
I* will be on email throughout - email Paul or I Paul (Schreier) if any problems*
If you cannot make it, I will phone you afterwards to update.
(Wow! Sir Jeremy, you’re all over it - in our moment of need…)
Agenda
(Prox O draft was completed that day - two of its authors are presenting. We can assume they presented their draft. Yesterday, literally, the authors confirmed it looks engineered. But we can’t have that - so - here’s the pangolin water-muddier plan?
The next steps and desired outcomes were redacted. Reminds you that although we see this as an exciting mystery investigation - it’s not a mystery for some people - it’s a lived-experience. Luckily, Farrar provides a list of those real-life livers:)
(participants:
Paul and I (both Wellcome Trust, Farrar - Oxford 1990’s.
Paul Schreier, previously a public servant adviser to PM (then Julia Gillard - current Wellcome Chair, since 2020) & Cabinet - Executive Coordinator (Strategic Policy and Implementation), most recently CEO of Hakluyt (2016-19), a shadowy British strategic intelligence firm)
Kristian Anderson (Prox O lead-author, Scripps)
Bob Garry (Prox O, Tulane) - I have not been able to contact Bob. Please forward if you can. (Same here)
Christian Drosten (Lancet Statement/Germany’s Covid Tsar )
Tony Fauci (NIAID)
Mike Ferguson (Wellcome Trust Governor)
Ron Fouchier (H5N1 GoF pioneer!)
Eddie Holmes (Prox O, first non-Chinese to be allowed access to Covid’s sequence, Oxford/Wellcome 1990’s)
Marion Koopmans (WHO investigator/extremely unlikely lab-origin extremist)
Stefan Pohlmann (Lancet Statement)
Andrew Rambaut (futurist, Prox O, 2nd non-Chinese person to know sequence, Oxford/Nuffield Dept 1990’s, Wellcome funded through VIZIONS, bio-surveillance enthusiast)
(Old-fashioned man’s world at the top - except for Koopmans)
From: Francis Collins, 1 Feb, 2020, 20:50
*To : *Jeremy Farrar, Cc: “Fauci, Anthony
Re: Teleconference (with Tedros - ducks-in-a-row exercise)
Hi Jeremy,
I can make myself available at any time 24/7 for the call with Tedros. Just let me know. Thanks for your leadership on this critical and sensitive issue.
Francis
From: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAIO) 1 Feb 2020, 22:06:26 +0000 (=22:06:26)
*To: *Jeremy Farrar;Collins, Francis
RE: Teleconference
Thanks, Jeremy. We really appreciate what you are doing here. Pleasure to work with you.
Best, Tony
What Farrar was doing here was:
taking the lead
on behalf of the planet
Fauci is a Scio-politics Hall-of-Famer - but he’s 80 years old. Francis is no spring chicken either.
Jeremy is 60 - in his prime. Time to assume the role of top-dog. What better way to do that than step-up in a crisis by convening strategy with the Prox Origin authors/Lancet Statement signers - and getting Tedros onboard - for the critical and sensitive issue of covering up the origin of Covid.
From: Jeremy Farrar, Feb 1, 2020 4:00 PM (UK-time?)
*To: *Collins, Francis Cc: Fauci, Anthony
We are altogether as you know! .. (A)lways great working with you both.
*From: *Jeremy Farrar
*Sent : *Feb 2, 2020 11:28 AM
*To: Fauci, Anthony, Collins, Francis Cc: *Tabak, Lawrence (NIH deputy-director)
Tedros and Bernhard (Schwartländer) have apparently gone into conclave …. they need to decide today in my view. If they do prevaricate, I would appreciate a call with you later tonight or tomorrow to think how we might take forward*.*
Decide what? Take what forward? All redacted. It’s there - but redacted.
So we have to speculate - whether we like it or not. Was Tedros hesitant to join the Prox O cover-story?
Luckily Tedros & Bernhard didn’t prevaricate too much - not sure why there was concern - Tedros was already praising the CCP to high-heaven on Jan 29. Knowing Tedros, he’s a slippery guy - may have been nervous about getting locked-in to the pangolin/wet market origin story so early in the piece.
Why would you do that?
*From: *Francis Collins
*Date: *2 Feb, 2020 at 10:27
To: Jeremy Farrar Cc: Fauci, Anthony, Tabak, Lawrence (NIH/OD)
Jeremy,
I’m available any time today except 3:15 - 5:45 pm EST (on a plane) for a call to Tedros. Let me know if I can help get through his thicket of protectors.
Francis
Yeah - got any tips, Francis, on how to get through your thicket of protectors - comprising mass-media/cyber industry/the science community/99% of politicians?
by dulan drift, Tuesday, August 17, 2021, 07:45
Inside the infamous Feb 1 teleconference - some colorful characters were online.
You think Fauci is bad - there was also Fouchier, the controversial GoF evangelist who souped-up bird flu. Reminds you -Genomics & GoF - go hand-in-hand. Eddie Everywhere was there of course, Andersen, Dresden, Koopmans.
One day i want to recreate the dialogue from that meeting, but more than that, i want to get this thread finished - out of my head. Here’s the thrust coming from Farrar who chaired:
Whatever we say here is classified. We need to speak openly to make the right decisions. To speak openly, we need to know that this discussion will remain strictly confidential. If you’re uncomfortable with that then you should leave this call. (nobody leaves)
Good. So yes, it looks like it was engineered - in WIV - probably. I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. Sorry to say.
Then it gets worse. NIH funded EcoHealth GoF at WIV.
Given the climate of anti-science/globalism that already exists, that I’ve been warning about, that spells death to all our One Health genomic GoF visions/funding - everything we’ve all worked so hard for…
The End.
Or…
We pivot
We come out fighting. Turn this negative into a positive.
Present a plausible alternative - as Kristian will outline - pangolin/wetmarket - say it could take years - we may never know etc - same as Anthrax, same as SARS, Ebola, MERS. But don’t say Anthrax, obviously, haha. Maybe not Ebola either. The point is: it worked then, it will work now. This is not our first rodeo - but it’s our biggest one.
Play the long game. See the future before it happens. Make it happen. In ten years time … no-one will know or care who-or-what-the-fuck caused it.
*If it hadn’t happened with a Gof experiment in Wuhan, we all know it may have happened, eventually, by - (cough, touch ear) - natural means … Or terrorists might have done it! It was a race against time - we did our best to stop it. We can still feel proud of what we have achieved - going forward.
*
Positives:* If you forget about the real origin for a minute, this virus is exactly what we have been predicting, preparing for. It is still the perfect plat-storm to demonstrate/execute our One Health dream. We can make this disruption work for us. One non-Truth. One Health. One Planet. We still sail the rising tide - turn it to advantage - for the common-good. But it’s now or never…
*
As scientists, leaders, we accept the heavy burden of responsibility. It is our job to see the big-picture. To weigh the inputs - then make the tough decision that will affect not only the future of science, but the path of humanity.
All in favour say ‘Aye’. (Unanimous ‘Aye’)
FAQ: But what if we get caught?
Ans: (powered by FatCheck.global.con): By whom? haha We have Big-Everything on our side - worked fine all the other times.
The first thing to note is that after the Feb 1 Teleconference it seems everybody was in agreement that a lab-exit from Wuhan was the most likely scenario. Andersen, Holmes, and Garry had concluded that it looks engineered, while Farrar noted that the virus appeared primed for human contagion.
Farrar: A likely explanation (involves) accidently (sic) creating a virus that would be primed for rapid transmission between humans.
That’s an astounding admission from someone who would lead the charge to vilify the conspiracy theorists. Not only did Farrar think/know it had escaped from a lab - he thought it was primed for rapid transmission between humans.
Farrar: I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.
Neither can I. What Farrar did figure out though was how to accomplish the cover-up.
So what was the “agreement on the next steps” engineered by Farrar in those crucial meetings? Here’s what we know:
Action: Launch Proximal Origin through Nature multiplied by Lancet Statement.
Goal: Present a united front work department of the world’s leading experts - to support the CCP’s version of the virus’s origin/save Genomics/One Health/WHO/NIH/ourselves.
Responsibility: Prox O: Farrar, Andersen, Holmes, Garry, Rambaut, Lipkin - Ian couldn’t be with us of course - he’s currently in China talking to Li Kechiang - so doing his bit. He’s agreed to come in as the Celebrity-Scientist salesman direct from his fact-hiding mission to China. He’ll be our public voice.
LanceS: Farrar, Koopmans with Daszak/EcoHealth
Note: Farrar/Fauci/Collins to liaise with Nature/Lancet/media re platforming
Action: Praise the CCP’s response/transparency
Goal: Shield CCP - and ourselves - to save One Health
Resp: Farrar, Lipkin, Daszak, Holmes, Andersen, WHO
Action: Vilify anyone asking questions as a crackpot conspiracy theorist - de-platform them.
Goal: Marginalize those looking to uncover the truth. Control the narrative.
Resp: All. Farrar/Fauci/Collins to liaise with media/big-tech owners re censoring.
Action: Say we want to take the politics out whilst praising CCP’s science-based approach. Emphasise the sovereign authority of the science - which we will control through PO and LS.
Goal: Remove any politics - except for our own
Resp: All. Fauci/Farrar/Lipkin will coordinate this tactic with CCP (Gao/KeChiang).
Action: Call for more funding, pump up fear of the Next Disease X.
Goal: Get more money! Entrench.
Resp: WHO (Ryan), EcoHealth/Daszak, Holmes, Lipkin (13:20)
Action: Focus on vaccine development as the cure
Goal: Boost our vaccine-focused industry - give us control of the solution.
Resp: Fauci, Farrar, Collins Drosten
Action: Downplay the severity of Covid. Say it’s not as bad as SARS/seasonal flu
Goal: ? *
Action: Advise (non-Chinese) people not to wear masks
Goal: ? *
Resp: (Farrar/SAGE, Fauci, Lipkin (TS32:30), Tedros/WHO)
Action: Keep borders with China open as long as possible
Goal: ? *
Resp: Farrar/SAGE, Fauci, WHO
Action: Distribute a Covid testing system - that we know doesn’t work.
Goal: ?*
Resp: Collins/Fauci/NIH (TS:1:58)
* The last four intrigue me. If you wanted Covid to explode - that is exactly what you would do: It’s not serious, don’t wear masks, keep international travel pumping, introduce a useless test.
If making sure the Covid genie got out of the bottle was the plan, it worked a treat.
This adds a new level of potential culpability: it’s one thing to activate a cover-up - to protect the One Health/CCP Genomics/GoF vision - but did our scientist MOU’s deliberately make it worse in order to carpe diem that goal?
Interestingly, from very early on, the CCP’s official line was listen to the scientific experts. They’ve stuck to that pact consistently throughout.
Liu Pengyu, US Chinese embassy: We have been supporting science-based efforts on origins tracing, and will continue to stay actively engaged. That said, we firmly oppose attempts to politicise this issue.
That indicates the above tactics were co-ordinated.
The fix was in from the beginning.
A deep-dive into the man who changed-the-world
by dulan drift, Monday, August 02, 2021, 11:07
This began as a look at the faces behind the One Health cartel - an attempt to put names to the they - who are shaping the future of humanity via genomics & AI - and their involvement in the Covid Atrocity. It was supposed to zero-in on Scripps & WuXi - huge players make no mistake - but somehow - all roads started leading to …
Sir Jeremy
He was the man who stepped-up when the shit-was-flying - took control in those critical days - orchestrated the united front response from the world’s leading experts/media platforms - lock-step - with the CCP’s version of the origin of Covid.
Jeremy Farrar, Mar 2020: The power of 21st century science to combat this pandemic is something that those going before us could not have dreamt of, and it is incumbent on us to do everything we can.
There’s a lot of power dreaming goes on in Jeremy’s brain. Let’s take a look-see inside it.
Sir Jeffrey is up there with the powerfulest, smartest, wokest people on the planet.
A BSc, BMed Uni College, full-MD at Edinburgh, Phd in neurology, Oxford
Sounds great. Must be intelligent to have studied at those joints. He is, but maybe not as smart as you would first think - we’ll get back to that.
A recipient of the Ho Chi Minh City Medal for his work in Vietnam during SARS and H5N1 - Director of Welcome Trust - One Health globalist - genomics/AI enthusiast - key figure in orchestrating the world’s Covid response.
Above all though - Farrar is a futurist.
Knows what’s coming - has a plan to shape it.
Then along came Covid.
In the critical embryonic stages, Farrar swung into action. Used his immense power to:
The above actions, master-minded by Sir Jeremy, were anti-science/political and/or silly.
Name calling is silly (though does reveal your insecurities - are you afraid of conspiracy theorists because there was a Covid Conspiracy?).
Shutting down questions about the origin is anti-science/silly/political. How we gonna stop the Next Disease X if we don’t understand what caused this one?
Praising the CCP - a fascist totalitarian regime - as open and transparent (?!) - is also all three.
The consequences of these actions were catastrophic. Your actions, Sir Jeremy.
Meanwhile, alternative courses of action, such as that proposed by Taiwan, were known/available. Worked fine in Taiwan - right on the frontline - could have worked worldwide on the backline as well. (Too late now of course - but you knew that?)
You didn’t listen to Taiwan’s advice because:
Taiwan is a democratic/free country. Simple as that.
Therefore;
barred from your Global One Health Community.
To say there is any other reason is to perpetrate the lie at the heart of the One-Everything movement.
Taiwan’s model was way cheaper - smarter - faster - better. No need for
all that death
or the warp speed torrent of vaccines - or their billionaire owners - or your One Health genomic surveillance systems - or the whole new normal where our freedoms have been evaporated …
… with you lot left in charge.
When Taiwan objected/reacted to the WHO ban, Nature labeled it as being racist - and colluding with white-nationalists (!)
Jeremy - the Oxford degrees - it’s gonna be hard pleading stupidity. But that’s not your plan is it …
coming clean - being held to account
It’s about the bigger picture
- the vision -
It’s happening - one way or another - you pulled that shit off - now steamroll on. See what this One Health kingdom has got under the bonnet.
So it’s interesting to examine your mindset when you assumed the mantle of Captain Covid in those crucial early days - that forever cast you as:
- the-man-who-changed-the-world -
just like you dreamed you would.
**by dulan drift, **Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 08:49
June 19, 2019, Francis Collins introed his friend Jeremy Farrar, selected to deliver the David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture at NIH, titled:
Global Health in a Changing World
Francis Collins (TS4:00): In 1996 he (Farrar) became the director of the Oxford University research centre in Vietnam in a very tumultuous time - (including) the outbreak of SARS .. (and) H5N1 - all of which he and his group were in the middle of.
Seems like everyone involved in the Covid cover-up was in the middle of SARS - Lipkin, Daszak, Baric, Wang Linfa, Holmes, Farrar, Dwyer, Shi etc, etc (and/or Anthrax - Fauci).
Collins (TS4:20): In 2013 he was appointed as the director of the Wellcome Trust - he was reappointed last year for a second five year term indicating the remarkable (lack of democracy in the One Health world/) success he has had in that role. And in that role he has been a wonderful contributor both in the agenda of that institution but also* for all of us who care deeply about global health. (*technically they’re the same thing)
For those of us who care deeply about the rise of totalitarianism ….
Collins (4:45): He currently serves as the chairperson of an informal group called the Heads of International Research Organizations which has just been meeting here at NIH for the last two days involving leaders of funding agencies from across the world.
And may I say, he’s a very good chair - you don’t walk into that meeting and not expect things to happen - I mean, because they have, and they will under his leadership.
So in all this fog of One Health oneness - Farrar is the One? The leader of the leaders of funding agencies. Think about that. Bill and Melinda, NIH, Wellcome - it’s across the world - did George Gao get a ticket…? For sure China is in there somewhere. Love to see that guest list - couldn’t find it. Couldn’t find any ref on the internet whatsoever to a group called The Heads of International Research Organizations. As Francis says: it’s informal…
The biggest feature of the new normal is we are constantly exhorted to listen to the health experts. It controls everything in our lives - suddenly - from restrictions on freedoms of speech, movement, assembly, to the explosion of personal surveillance, to vaccines.
Therefore; Farrar, the leader of that, is a humanity disrupter.
This is a role Farrar revels in. Was born ready to revel. First the sense of a vision, then the forming of it - the garnering of the energy/power to propel it …
things happen under his leadership
Now he’s in the driver’s seat. Hang onto your hats.
At first it was a surprise when i looked at Fauci’s FOI emails how Farrar slotted into the ringmaster-role - makes sense now.
Farrar, June 19, 2019: (P)eople .. are going to see unbelievable changes in society in the next 20 to 30 years in ways that .. will be very disruptive.
Farrar the futurist. He knows what’s coming:
- disruption -
It’s Jeremy’s job to shape it. For all of us.
Personally, i’ve had about enough of your Disruption. Right when disruption became a scientific buzz-word - we had the ultimate Disruption.
Farrar: 27:35: At this moment, when the scientific advances are perhaps the most exciting in the last few decades, we are facing a society and a political structure which is questioning the very advances that are being made.
The dreaded questioning. If you really want to infuriate a world-leading scientist, ask them a question…
(Francis, King Arthur of Genomics, was onto this since way back as well:
Technology: *(On Feb 14, 2001) Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, made a *disturbing claim about the future. “Major anti-technology movements will be active in the U.S. and elsewhere by 2030,” he predicted.)
Farrar: As a scientific community, I think we have been complacent that people would accept scientific advances (without question) and they would just thank us for it.
*(A)s a community, we’ve got to engage much better than *we *have done in the past in order to bring society with us. .. *We *have to see this as one of *our great challenges.
The scientists being us. Us being society. This is a theme of Farrar’s - repeated in other rousing speeches. He is always thinking outside the pure science. Thinks about the propaganda game - as Francis did - the great challenges of annoying democratic structures - societies - how to overcome them - bring them with us. Us being the Deciders. (you being a Decidees).
Farrar: That combination of science, innovation and society is the triangle that Wellcome seeks to put together.
Farrar was keenly aware a GoF-exit would have been disastrous for all that. The cherished vision of One Health genomic surveillance up in smoke.
That’s motivation for a cover-up right there.
Farrar: (7:13) Our lawyer at Wellcome - promise I should never say anything about US politics so anything that may seem as if it may indicate any political view, please, it does not (smirks) - necessarily. (audience laughter)
But as you go through your own political cycles (as opposed to us, who, like the CCP, just keep on ruling - Fauci’s been director of NIAID since 1984!) - and I can tell you we’re going through an even worse one in the UK - I’ll come back to that - just don’t forget - the leadership role that you play. .. So thank you for your leadership and please: do never never step down from it.
Ok, so much for taking the politics out. That’s a straightforward call-to-political-arms from an unelected power cohorter. As co-author with Gao and Fauci on a powerful/political WHO/World Bank report, titled The World at Risk, you urge political action.
The message is: we have enormous power - use it.
Farrar: 8:50: If not now then when? If not now - if we don’t stand up for the values that we all hold dear (One-Everything) - at this time of real change politically around the world, then - and if not us - who (WHO?) will do it?
Jeremy, it’s not your job to rule the world - whatever you may have convinced yourself. You’re not the messiah - you’re a very naughty boy. No one voted for you for a start. If you want to play global politics, become a politician. But you won’t do that will you? - coz you might have to face being questioned - getting cycled out. One-ism doesn’t do cycle-out.
To finish the lecture Farrar quotes Shakespeare:
There is a tide in the affairs of men
which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
is bound in shallows and in miseries
On such a full sea are we now afloat
And we must take the current when it serves
or lose our ventures
The signalling is loud and clear: As an empowered Science Community (thanks to Anthrax and SARS-1), we’re on a full sea. Sail (for war) now. If not now, we’ll lose our global ventures.
Interestingly Farrar omits the first line, which is:
We at the height are ready to decline
It’s spoken by Brutus in Julius Caesar - which explores how warning signs can be mistaken for opportunity by ambitious people at the height.
To Jeremy’s credit - he did note:
…it didn’t end well for the speaker.
by dulan drift, Thursday, August 12, 2021, 10:49
Sep 2019: Farrar/Fauci/Gao et al (Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (sponsored by WHO & World Bank), A World at Risk p15): The chances of a global pandemic are growing. While scientific and technological developments provide new tools that advance public health .. they also allow for disease-causing microorganisms to be engineered or recreated in laboratories.
A deliberate release would complicate outbreak response; .. security measures would come into play limiting information-sharing and fomenting social divisions. (check)
Taken together, naturally occurring, accidental, or deliberate events caused by high-impact respiratory pathogens pose “global catastrophic biological risks.”
This demonstrates Farrar (Fauci/Gao) was warning of the danger of a lab accident and/or bioweapons scenario - exactly at the time Covid emerged.
Logic tells you Farrar/Fauci/Gao must have immediately thought it was a lab-escape when the news broke - as did Bat Lady - as did the Prox Origin authors Farrar was cohorting with.
Shortly thereafter, Farrar was tag-teaming Daszak and the Prox O authors in name-calling anyone who said the same thing as a crack-pot conspiracy theorist.
In the same report (p15) Farrar/Fauci/Gao note: Trust in institutions is eroding. Governments, scientists, the media, public health, health systems and health workers in many countries are facing a breakdown in public trust. .. The situation is exacerbated by misinformation that can hinder disease control communicated quickly and widely via social media.
Farrar sees this is an obstacle to his grand vision. No surprise that the Covid Conspiracy included social media giants, citing Farrar’s Lancet Statement, instituted a sweeping ban on anyone suggesting Covid was a lab-leak.
Nov 6, 2019: Farrar/Koopmans/Nature: (T)he fast-developing field of genomic epidemiology ..and artificial intelligence will bring more opportunities to move towards ‘precision public health’.
Unfortunately, with social media highlighting the fast-developing field of scientists (including Wellcome ones) holding hands with totalitarianism to create more opportunities to profile/control Uyghurs, there has been a breakdown in public trust.
So how to fix that?
Farrar/Koopmans/Nature: (I)t will be a challenge to persuade countries to invest in a new surveillance system, for example, before its general effectiveness has been demonstrated at a country level.
At some stage in Jan 2020, Farrar went from:
assuming/knowing Covid was a lab-exit
to:
orchestrating a narrative with the CCP - his partner in genomic surveillance programs.
Did his futurist mind see Covid as an opportunity in a crisis to demonstrate the effectiveness of this new surveillance system vision? As well as save his grand plans from an inevitable crash-n-burn if the truth got out?
two birds with one stone
Covid is the Shakespearean high tide dream. Coincidentally, high tide can also means orgasm in Chinese.
Farrar/Koopmans/Nature: Preparing for epidemics, therefore, requires global health, economic and political systems to be integrated. .. (T)he WHO’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework brings together nation states, industry, other stakeholders and the WHO to implement a global approach to pandemic preparedness and response.
(Check. All that came true. WHO/Tedros operating as the public face - Farrar calling the shots.)
Farrar/Koopmans/Nature: Key governance components include drafting policies in advance and being willing to implement those policies for data collection.
They were willing alright. Ready, willing and able - thanks to Jeremy’s foresight.
Farrar: *The *truth is, global health has been an absolutely phenomenal success story. Over the last few decades, the transformation in people’s lives around the world has been nothing short of remarkable.
Really?
Farrar: Consider just one example: Between the turn of the century and 2012, 700 million people did not contract malaria, and 3.5 million lives were saved from the disease because biomedical research advances were developed with and for the communities affected.
On the other hand: Consider just one other example - Covid. Between the turn of 2020 and Oct 2021, 5 million lives were lost - potentially - because of biomedical research advances.
Let’s put that aside, i’m still interested as to what biomedical research advances exactly proved to be nothing short of remarkable in the fight against malaria?
Farrar: Science—bed nets and artemisinin combo therapy—were brought together with communication, with the embracement of society and with true leadership.
True leadership - that being you of course.
Let’s examine the truth of that statement from a true leader.
Firstly: Bed nets is not a breath-taking biomedical research advance - it’s common sense. I went to Africa in the 80’s - they had bednets - and Hydroxy - and insecticide. The advance was to soak the bednets in insect repellent.
But how about the other part of the combo therapy?
Artemisia: a traditional Chinese medicine for malaria (so not a modern bio-research advance either). Yes, it was synthesized into a drug - which seemed to ruin its centuries-old efficacy coz it worked for five minutes - then malaria developed resistance. As Harald Noedl, MedUni Vienna, noted: We were way too optimistic.
The truth is, the 3.5 million lives saved were from distributing more bednets soaked in insect repellent and increased spraying of insecticide in breeding places. Great. Not bio-medical advances, though.
Unfortunately even these simple measures - they’re important - but not solutions in themselves. Malaria shows resistance against insecticides - which are carcinogenic poisons basically, and bednets only protect you when you’re in bed.
Like a lot of diseases, malaria is caused by:
corruption
Billions of dollars are spent each year on downstream technological-solutions to malaria but the upstream cause, man-made corruption, is left untreated.
Malaria is a terrible, but preventable disease. It flourishes where there’s poor sanitation - which is caused by corrupt governments - in Africa - and four other continents - corruptly draining the resources of humanity’s motherland - without giving back to its citizens. To the tune of $40 bil a year.
Aisha Dodwell: This research shows that what African countries really need is for the rest of the world to stop systematically looting them.
But we can’t talk about that coz we’re taking the politics out (along with the resources &/or organs).
NIH Record: Citing several other conditions (other than malaria), he (Farrar) said the scientific community nevertheless cannot rest on its (bednet) laurels but must be more vigilant to see that gains are not lost.
Farrar: As these diseases are disappearing from many parts of the world through vaccination (bednets/artemisia are not vaccines, Jeremy) and as people lose that personal experience or connection to these diseases, things like the anti-vaccine* movement become more powerful.*
Hang on, one minute we’re talking about the great bio-medical advance of bednets - the next you’re railing against your favourite hobby-horse - the vaccine-hesitant* movement*.
Which you’re afraid will become even more powerful?
Last time i checked, vaccine-hesitant people were being tear-gassed/bashed/maced/fined/jailed/banned from earning a living/travelling/shopping - all based on:
the advice from the health experts.
But even with all that power to crush, you’re still afraid? That’s telling.
Judging by the growing protests around the world, i can see why you would be, though. People are told they need to take multiple doses of experimental vaccines (or face ex-communication from society) - due to Covid. But you won’t tell us what Covid was due to.
You know but you won’t say.
If you want to restore the public’s faith in Science, it’s quite easy - simply #dacktheredactions from your Science discussions around the Feb 1 teleconference - show the public that we can trust the experts who dictated the western world’s response to Covid. Why not?
Dec 11, 2019: Farrar/Nature: I know China’s CDC very well, and I was involved in China’s CDC through SARS .. in 2003–2004–2005. ..China CDC at that point was underfunded and struggled for influence ..(but) what China’s done in the last fifteen years .. they’ve learned lessons from the U.S. CDC (which milked the Anthrax scam for billions and became super-powerful) and now there is an incredibly strong central CDC in China.
So a few days before Covid became public knowledge, Farrar goes onto the Nature platform to give a rousing endorsement of the CCP’s CDC. Then aggressively doubled-down on that endorsement with the Lancet Statement once Covid broke.
I wonder if it’s because of this:
Intellasia: *A further three of the signatories were from Britain’s Wellcome Trust, which has *funded work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the past. ..When approached, the Lancet and Wellcome Trust refused to comment further on the letter.
It’s also interesting to note that:
Dec 2014: Market Business News: The Wellcome Trust, made £2.5 billion on its investment portfolio valued at £16.4 billion. It recorded a return of 15.4% for the year ending on September 30th, 2014. The Trust’s high investment return increased partly because of its shareholdings in retail giants Alibaba and JD.com. (both Chinese companies)
Through to Dec 2020, investments in Chinese companies under Farrar’s direction have been flagged BUY. Japan: SELL.
Financial Times: Heeding the calls of Jeremy Farrar .. (Wellcome) had already put in place hedges across its portfolio that allowed it to book profits of £248m in its financial year to the end of September. This foresight ensured Wellcome’s investments grew by 12.3 per cent to £29bn. This was the highest return since 2016, and the first time the fund had invested more in Asian equities than in Europe, including the UK.
Wellcome Trustees Report: We added to Chinese equities in the market weakness in Q4 2018, which was partially offset by sales of assets in Japan.
The Farrar pivot - from Japan to China.
This investment, however was threatened by the Trade War of 2019 - and rising tide of cultural retreat from globalization:
Wellcome Trustees Report: After a long period when owners of capital, like Wellcome*, have been the beneficiaries of globalisation, of technological *disruption and of ultra-accommodative monetary policy, societal attitudes are shifting.
Luckily, Covid saved the day by re-energizing globalization to the point where:
Financial Times: *Sir Jeremy said 2020 had been a *spectacular year for science, pointing to global co-operation.
Farrar: *Science has delivered in 2020. Advances in science *often come out of crises.
Cometh the Crisis cometh the man…
Apart from the above investments, Wellcome, as we covered previously, also cooperates with the CCP on genomic surveillance experiments.
So whaddya gonna do? From a Farrar/Wellcome perspective, don’t rock the China boat.
Didn’t find anything on Farrar’s personal financial links with China, nothing obvious. My feeling is, unlike many of his colleagues, he’s not motivated by greed or even vanity - like your Lipkins and your Daszaks. The money generated by these China investments is important, coz it funds the manifestation of Farrar’s globalist vision.
But Power is Jeremy’s thing - not money. He’s an idealist with an inflated ego. He envisions a centralized world - where he’s pulling the strings.
This Oneness overlaps with the idealism of totalitarian regimes - say the CCP for example - who are all for Oneness too!
Farrar, June, 2014: Ten years ago (SARS), China blocked access. But now China is transparent and superb at disease monitoring. (my brackets)
Like everyone, Farrar thinks he’s doing this for:
the common-good …
Especially the poor people in developing countries. It’s how he justifies it. It’s why he identifies with the broad strokes of Communism (honed over 15 years in Vietnam?) It’s why he finds common ground with the CCP’s system of government. It’s a constant.
If you wanna see this genomics/AI revolution happen in your lifetime - be the one who has a say over what DNA is selected for - or against - take your rightful place in history - science tells you, totalitarianism is the best way to get things done.
The forces that shaped the man who shaped the world
Although we’ve never met - i feel we know each other in some way. We’ve both lived in South East Asian countries for an extended period - we’re about the same age - we both like cricket. That’s why i’m writing this letter to you.
Firstly, i don’t think you’re evil. You did what you thought was right. Let’s say: You knew not what you were doing - but you thought you knew.
Your life is very interesting. It’s a novel - or a play maybe. By the time you sat your A-levels in the UK, you’d lived in Singapore, Malaysia, Egypt, Yemen, NZ (for 6 months - hated it), and then 7-years in Libya - on and off.
You failed those A-levels - your first and last experience of serious failure - until Covid? Actually, that’s not true, your second and last experience was one year later, right?, when you fell short on those bloody A-levels again. It’s surprising, considering the heights you rose to, but understandable given your peripatetic childhood .
Though you did attend Churcher’s College in the UK from at least the age of 15, The school annual has you there in 1977. Doesn’t appear to be a boarding school - so you stayed with relatives? At that time your father was an English teacher in Tripoli, as i recall.
You were a teenager - probably had some rebellious stuff going on with the peripatetics - it’d be normal - i would. My sense is you had a strained relationship with your father - felt closer to your Mum, a writer/artist - slightly bohemian - someone you could talk to.
To your credit, you didn’t give disjointedness as an excuse for flunking. Said you were good at sport - like your father was - said you focused too much on it to the detriment of your studies.
You were good - both cricket and rugby - made the Churcher’s First XV in Rugby in 1978-79 - and it wasn’t just any old season either:
Churcher’s Hill Annual (PDF): This season will be remembered for, arguably, the best 1st XV Churcher’s has produced in its fifty year rugby history.
Whoa! Best team ever! In fact the Churchers won 10 games out of 12. As a champion schoolboy team you toured France. After being moved on by the gendarmes for conducting practice under the Eiffel Tower in the morning, part of the group went to visit a museum, while:
…the more sophisticated minority occupied the Left Bank and lunched on wine, cheese, wine, pate, wine, bread and wine, to the evident bewilderment of the Parisien spectators.
Sir Jeremy, sorry to out you, but you were among this group of teenage piss-heads. (Disclaimer: Me too! But a different group - in Australia - i told you we had things in common) So what did you get up to in the afternoon?
The afternoon was spent defending the Parisien public from Tim “baguette” Easlick’s sly attacks and bestowing some English Christmas spirit (in the form of an enthusiastic rendition of “O Come All Ye Faithful”) upon a crowd of French students chanting “Assassins!” outside the police H.Q.
So you drunkenly interrupted a protest against police-killings?
Celebrations back at the hotel continued until 3 a.m.
Big day’s night!
Wed 20th: A morning expedition substantiated that Lawrence Fiddler was still alive and meanwhile Jeremy Farrar was sent home with alcohol poisoning.
Yep - you could fail your A-levels by being a binge-drinking yobbo at 17.
You do look rebellious - cocky springs to mind.
Churcher’s College is a pretty good school though!
Set to celebrate 300 years as an institution in 2022.
According to Wikipedia, it’s got four alumni from around your time who you’d say are/were modern day movers-and-shakers:
Howard Drake (aged 65) OBE, High Commissioner to Jamaica from 2010 to 2013, and Ambassador to Chile from 2005 to 2009 High Commissioner to Canada from 2013 to 2017. Retired.
Rear Adm Philip Mathias (in his 60’s) MBE, Director since 2010 of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (Nuclear), and President in 2004 of the Admiralty Interview Board. Now a protester calling for investigation into corruption at NHS.
Dr Richard Dyer (in his 60’s) OBE, Chief Executive from 2006-9 of the Biosciences Federation, and Director from 1994-2005 of the Babraham Institute
Then there’s you of course - Churcher’s College’s brightest star:
Sir Jeremy Farrar (aged 60) Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Director of the Wellcome Trust, Director of the Covid Conspiracy (?)
by dulan drift, Sunday, September 05
You then re-sat your A-levels, passed, but still not great, coz you got rejected from all the unis - which is a nice touch - for someone who would go onto rule them all.
Interestingly, 40 years later, you still have nightmares about those exams:
I used to wake up with nightmares thinking ‘I’ve got to do my bloody A-levels again’ - for years! Uhmm, so it’s only in the last year or two I’ve gotten over that, actually. It’s amazing the scars.
Yeah, amazing. So how did you get in?
You got proactive - you went up to stay with your big sister, a nurse in London, together you formed this plan to knock on doors of all the unis - actually mainly your sister - you were slightly skeptical but gave it a go.
Desert Island Discs [00:15:09] I went round all of them and they all said, no, of course, because the world doesn’t work like that. Except one. And a character called Robin Forrest who is still alive and still well and still in contact with, opened the door and said, oh, you must be here for the interviews.
So the world does, or doesn’t work like that? Or it does and it doesn’t?
And I said, making it up, ‘Yeah, actually, I am.’ And obviously people have been written to* and I got a place at medical school and I’m eternally grateful.*
I’m less eternally grateful, Jeremy, but that’s only me - Robin Forrest - your door-opener - i’m guessing it’s this one?
Robin Forrest: Visiting Expert at the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, visiting Scientist at Xerox PARC, Honorary Professor of Shandong University, Consultant for General Motors, Boeing, Lockheed, Xerox, Digital, Apple, Philips, Adobe, Rolls-Royce, worked for the defense in various patent cases concerning computer painting systems.
Also wondering was your father, Eric, one of those who helped with the people having been written to part?
Doesn’t matter, i don’t doubt you’ve got talent. Charm has always been your strong suit - i see how you could have done it. The cocky, quick-witted 19 year-old - with the exotic upbringing - rocking up at universities trying to talk his way in…
Anyway, the important part is you got your foot in the door of academia - now here we are.
dulan drift, Sunday, September 05, 2021
Jeremy, you strike me as an idealist - who genuinely cares about the poor people in Africa - it’s not merely a line - like it is for the others.
My feeling is it has something to do with your time in Vietnam?
You moved there in 1996, aged 35. (I went to Taiwan in 1996 aged 33! Though not to fill an Oxford position, i admit.) So what prompted the move?
Francis Collins,(ts3:30): (You) describe(d) this experience of addressing a conference of neurologists and looking over at a ‘sea of white men’ and thinking ‘I can not spend my life with these people’.
(Ironically 25 years later, you organized the Feb 1 Teleconference with - not a sea of white men as such - more a refined pool of them.)
Here you were at 34, up on stage, the guy who fell short on his A-levels, twice, rejected by all of them - now headlining Oxford conferences - feeling bored. You look out condescendingly over a sea of white men - hear yourself speak in that out-of-body way - hear them still laughing at your jokes - but taking no pleasure in that.
You were younger, street-smarter, more energetic than them. Brash, idealistic by nature - but not yet sure about what.
The cushy conference scene though - you knew already - the answer sure ain’t there. It was not the real world. (Technically, everything is the real world - even academic cliques.)
At that time, is it fair to say you were driven by twin, conflictive impulses?
gnawing need to authenticate yourself - sense of the imposter (the A-level nightmares?)
reservoir feeling that you are special - you were meant for greater things…
After the conference you went to the coffee room for the usual chitchat - overheard someone (do your remember whom?) talking about a gig in Vietnam?
You: Actually it wasn’t in the coffee room, it was actually in the bar, where still things do happen (laughter).
Sorry, my mistake. Bloody Francis Collins - unreliable as usual. So he says you overheard a conversation - is that right - or did they approach you?
*Uhr, uhm - and they were looking for a director (at Oxford pay, clears throat) of what was then a *nascent program (11:21) in Vietnam, Ho Chi Mihn city, in Vietnam, in 1995. (my brackets)
Oh - so it was more of a head-hunting thing? Do you happen to remember ‘they’s’ name(s)? The recruiters? Or is that classified?
Anyway, piqued your curiosity. A few beers later you were in. As you say, things still do happen in bars - Oxford bars at least.
So in 1996 you moved there . Thought a few years tops (me too with Taiwan, initially) - then succumb to normalcy by going … “back to a migraine clinic in Oxford or Edinburgh” (not me too).
In fact stayed 18 very, very happy years living in what is a remarkable country.
Me; a little longer. Very very happy years? - constant very, very happiness is not my metric for weighing existence, but there is a life-affirming spirit in Taiwan that i’ll always be grateful for. It’s a place where you’re allowed to be. Don’t get automatically locked up for that. So yeah, also a remarkable country - especially in today’s War on Freedom climate.
Conversely, did the freedom from the scientific herd’s regulation, that the Vietnam anti-freedom system afforded, better suit your urge to explore restless dreams …?
Then SARS happened. You were on the frontline. You tell us that in almost every speech you make. Did SARS feed your dare-devil adventurousness?
The chance to coordinate with centralized political power holders - to orchestrate operations - for the common-good - was that the clincher - I can see how that would be intoxicating. You were very good at - won the Ho Chi Minh Medal no less.
I’ve always thought Vietnam was a good example of how Communism can work. They kicked the US’s corrupt-arsed invasion out - Ho Chi Minh - (a) won - (b) ran/developed the country without plunging everyone into famine.
Meanwhile, Vietnamese people are spiritual, resilient, funny, respectful, artistic, brave, community-based. Plus the food is great - and it’s geographically beautiful.
Hard not to like that. But it’s not just the Vietnamese people you rave about - you especially lavish praise on the remarkable achievements of Vietnam’s political system, saying it:
… offers such hope of where a country can develop and change, and embrace the modern world.
But hang on, Jeremy, Vietnam is, after all, a totalitarian regime.
I found this, actually ‘found’ is too fancy, it was the first entry on the search page for Vietnam political persecution. It’s a World Report on Human Rights in Vietnam. Seems at odds with your impression:
World Report: Those who criticize the one party regime face police intimidation, harassment, restricted movement, physical assault, detention, and arrest and imprisonment. Police detain political detainees for months without access to legal counsel and subject them to abusive interrogations.
Pretty sure you’d be safe though, right? In fact they awarded you two medals of honour - the same number Lipkin received from the CCP.
Interestingly, the 2nd listing on the search page, the Amnesty site, also documents punishment for distributing “disinformation” on the pandemic , including the censorship of anyone questioning the official origin and/or draconian lockdowns (with the help of Facebook no doubt.)
As someone who is big on lockdowns and censoring origin talk, i can see how you would love that - how you would enthuse that the Vietnam regime offers such hope of where a country (heck - a whole planet!) can develop and change, and embrace the modern world - without being slowed down by tedious accountability.
Yeah - no. I’d still rather Taiwan as a symbol of hope for embracing the modern world - it’s a free country for a start. If you’re gonna build something - get the foundations right.
But Taiwan’s not your favourite topic, is it? I know that coz i tried searching Jeremy Farrar Taiwan. Captain Covid, architect of the world’s Covid response/cover-up(?) - and - Taiwan - the country that was by far the most successful in the world at containing it - without draconian lockdowns. Surely there would be some cross-over mention…?
But nothing. Nada. That simple word, Taiwan has never left your lips in public.
Why is that, Jeremy?
As a world health expert - could you not bring yourself to take the politics out for five minutes? To analyse whether the world had/has something to learn from Taiwan’s investigation of the origin of Covid - it’s handling/control of the disease?
What happened to the common-good?
Sorry, those are rhetorical questions. We both know why. Idealistically, you prefer totalitarianism (with yourself near the apex) - One Planet and all that.
A democracy like Taiwan where people are still allowed to question you, is only going to mess that up.
Six years into Vietnam you found yourself in the middle of SARS - thereby cementing a close relationship with another communist regime, the CCP. The number of Covid Conspirators who cut their teeth on SARS is striking - yourself, Lipkin, Dwyer, Embarek, Shi, Holmes, Daszak - to name a few - all rusted-on CCP fans - who are taking the politics out.
As you say, through SARS, you got to know China’s CDC very well - you count George Gao, the head of China’s CDC, as an old friend.
By 2014, during the pivot to China, you were praising the CCP openly, saying: Ten years ago, China blocked access. But now China is transparent and superb - which is weird language to describe a health regime that was simultaneously involved in the systemic organ-harvesting of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.
But you were very, very happy(?) to turn a blind-eye to that?
Because if you did, you were allowed a seat amongst the power-elites of totalitarian countries? Where big picture stuff can/does still happen?
In the clinic - you felt too downstream - dealing with patients who are the results of something else - you felt helpless. A colleague/friend, Carlo Urbani contracted SARS in Hanoi as part of an outbreak started by Johnny Chen on Feb 28, a Chinese/American businessman, who caught it from Liu Jianlun, a doctor from from Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital in Guangdong, who was the index case in Hong Kong. Urbani was the first WHO official to identify the new respiratory disease as SARS. He experienced symptoms whilst on a flight to Thailand and died in a hospital there. It’s a story you frequently recount in moving speeches (apart from the Thailand bit - your version has him quarantining the hospital in Vietnam, with himself locked inside, which stopped the spread of the disease). This tragic experience lead you to conclude:
…you can (only) do so much as a doctor or a nurse. It makes you question your whole professionalism. It makes you question why you’re there and why you’re in the hospital looking after people.
You needed to get upstream - with the big boys - where things happen. That first exercise of real power was an adrenaline rush - instantly addictive - you revelled in the surge of this incredibly strong central CDC in China taking large-scale action. It affirms in your mind: centralized government gets shit done. It’s a constant theme in your speeches. As you say with Singapore: (TS 10:20) You may or may not like the political system - but never-the-less - enormous progress over time.
From SARS the key lesson you learned is: in a crisis, act fast - don’t wait for the data. That’s quite radical for a scientist. Especially bearing in mind we don’t know the origin of SARS-1. Which is something i’m dying to ask you - you would know:
We know SARS escaped post-1st outbreak 6 times from labs. Did it escape 7 times?
My impression is the the nitty-gritty of data and science is not your bag - you’d rather talk about cricket? Or, to a smaller audience, the big-power-overarching politics of science - the secret stuff - like SARS - like how to get societies to accept our entrenchment as the authority-on-everything.
If that is the quest, then yes, you are the chosen one. The brilliant general in The War on Freedom.
The goal in this war, as you say, is to change the fundamentals … through locking-down and behaviour change and .. particularly vaccines - all geared towards making individuals subservient to the state. This requires the impost of draconian/new normal rules - best enforced by a centralized system of government.
The paradox, as you impressed upon the DI interviewer, is that for those orchestrating the above … there are no rules - there are no textbooks to follow here - these are judgment calls made in the very best faith.
That’s the thing about totalitarianism - yes it has its dark-side - but it offers such hope for what can be achieved in the One Health sphere - by virtue of this paradoxical dynamic: enforcement of rules - by a benevolent, free overlord - unencumbered by rules. It’s just more effective like that. (Ask the experts if you don’t believe me.)
In Vietnam, your mind - from a place of intense individuality - solidified ideas of the global-good. Calculated how best to manifest them.
Totalitarianism made sense - the best system to institute your ambitious plan to change the fundamentals.
Reminds me a little of Julius Caesar - another man with a strong sense of individual destiny who realized early he needed a base of monied, militaried forces - to change-the-world.
What i’m trying to do here, Jeremy, is understand you.
How did a lager lout teenager who twice fell short on his A-levels, ascend to the pinnacle of power in academia?
We’ve looked at your schooling, Vietnam, but not your parents - the itinerant childhood.
As you say: Inevitably it has a big influence, I think, on the way you see things and your approach to the world.
In turn, your approach to the world has had a big influence on the world - so let’s reverse engineer that.
Born in Singapore,1961, the usual media intro is: His father was an English teacher .. who moved his family often. The family lived in Yemen, Egypt, Cyprus, New Zealand (6-months - hated it), and Libya, among other countries. Farrar, the youngest of six, came along after Yemen and Egypt. (my brackets)
At the NIH lecture, you list the countries of your childhood as: Singapore, Malaysia, Aden in Yemen, Cyprus, New Zealand, and Libya (7 years).
That’s since you were born. The last of six children. It’s an interesting array of countries - for an English teacher.
I’ve gotta ask the obvious question:
Was Dad a spy?
There are other explanations, which we’ll explore, but it’d make sense if he was - your affiliation with the world of underlying forces from a formative age - your obsession with global politics …
Next question would be:
Are you a spy?
The question after that would be:
Does Wellcome function as a spy organization?
Last question:
Which side are you on exactly? Totalitarianism or Freedom?
Final Last question:
What even is the politics of your average spy organization?
Firstly: Your father is a war hero - who endured terrible trauma. I have deep respect for him - and your mother.
You [00:10:47]: He (Eric Farrar) was part of the British Expeditionary Force that went to fight in Europe in 1939 and was captured just outside Dunkirk in the spring of 1940 and was a prisoner of war in a German prison camp until the end of the war in 1945. And he came back to Britain, then hadn’t been able to go to university. And he was given a lift (to a) debriefing because I think he’d escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp or something.
A little surprising you’re not sure about whether he’d escaped or not - but it’s normal that people don’t like to talk about trauma - even with family.
[00:11:16]: And my mother had been a driver during the war. She had driven these huge American people, carriers (sic) (from the transcript of the podcast - listening to it later, i realized she was driving huge American people-carriers - not huge American people) from the ports in Scotland down to the south coast in 1943 and 1944, preparing for the invasion of Europe and VE Day.
She was driving my father for some debriefing. He was an enlisted soldier. He wasn’t an officer, but he had some information about the prisoner of war camps in Germany. (Which is how they met.)
Although officers were not required to work, he was an enlisted soldier, so that means five years hard labour in the camp on low food rations - with the constant threat of punishment or even execution. That will break a man down. If he did escape and was then recaptured, they would have made life hell. That’s a lot of trauma - fully-franked with PTSD for life.
After the war, Eric and your mother began the next stage of their lives as just two itinerant people - adventurers - travelling around the world for many, many years.
PTSD would explain that. Even a natural high dose of wanderlust, though with a family of six children, it’s a big deal to relocate so many times.
The countries that he chose - Singapore, Yemen, Egypt, Cyprus, Libya - it does seem plausible he was working as an intelligence gathering agent for the British military - and went wherever he was deployed. It’d be a good fit for the restlessness.
But so is English teacher - quite plausible - not sure why i’m even talking about it - whatever - he worked hard - hard enough to send you to a posh school in England.
But as to how-the-heck you got into University College London - and then Oxford? Don’t quite buy that door-knocking story - the chance meeting with Robin Forrest. Sounds like someone had some clout somewhere?
You do have that natural affinity with the deep-state influencers - the layer of established power beneath politicians. For someone born n raised in a world of international intelligence gathering, a closed-circle power-cohort-with-a-globalized-agenda would seem normal.
At the end of the day though, you blazed your own trail. The consequences of your actions are yours to own - not your father’s.
You describe your mother as the forceful one in the family. Half Italian, she does seem to be a high-energy, strong woman - driving army-trucks during the war is not for dainty types.
She was driving my father for some debriefing. .. So they met like that. And being two amazing romantics, actually, they were married actually, I think a few weeks later. .. And my eldest brother was born well before I think nine months of gestation happened. So obviously, you know, sex wasn’t invented at the latter part of the 20th century and they went on to have six children.
I wouldn’t have brought the subject of your mother and father having sex up, but, seeing how you’ve mentioned it: doing the maths - if they married within a few weeks of meeting and your eldest brother was born well before nine months of gestation, guess they must’ve had sex in the vehicle! (or within days) So yeah, a magnetic attraction.
Whereas your father seems somewhat distant, your mother was a writer and artist - who painted the above picture when she was pregnant with you. You describe her as slightly bohemian - an adventurer - a person of blended and sometimes divided personalities. Which is an apt description for you, also. She was a pretty good painter. I’d love to read some of her writings as well - she had an exciting enough life for a book - did she have anything published?
For a bohemian, she also had a good relationship with the US military whilst living in Singapore.
[00:32:18] In 1964 .. (s)he used to hitch rides with the American military on a plane .. to go shopping in Saigon.
Cool.
So Saigon has been sort of part of my background since the early 60s and had such a profound influence on me.
Which, in turn, has had a profound influence on me - and the world …
It was Anne’s decision to ditch NZ after 6-months in the late-60’s. It’s no easy thing to relocate a family of six across the oceans - but she hated New Zealand - too chauvinistic - too boring.
[00:10:05] : (M)y mother, who sort of ruled the family, really said, look, we’re not having this.
So we all got on a boat. And so when I first came to Britain, I came by boat.
We left Britain soon afterwards to go and live in Libya.
Although you remember having big arguments with your mother, the sense is you two connected. She was a remarkable woman - it’s worth ticking off her accomplishments again: army truck-driver, painter, writer, bohemian, military plane hitch-hiker, itinerant adventurer, mother of 6, forceful family ruler …
[00:17:09]: I think science is like an artist faced with a blank canvas at the start. You’ve no idea where it’s going to go, but you can dream and you can dream about what’s on it.
The true horror of Covid is that the publicly funded academic institutions that we were relying on to tell the truth, played leadership roles in spreading lies.
What do George Gao (Gao Fu - 高福, China DCD Director), Jeremy Farrar, Eddie Holmes, Andrew Rambaut (Prox O), and Michael Worobey have in common - apart from the obvious - that they were all key figures in prosecuting the PR war against lab-leak speculation?
They were all Oxford and/or Wellcome buddies together in the 90’s.
George Gao: 1991-2004
Jeremy Farrar: 1994-present
Eddie Holmes: 1994-2004
Andrew Rambaut: 199?-1997
Michael Worobey*: 1997-2003
(*Worobey attempted to mount a rescue mission for the failing natural zoonosis theory when he published his silly Patient-Zero paper claiming the first infection was a person who attended the market in early Dec. Nobody, not even CCP officials, think Covid began in early Dec. Frighteningly, Worobey got the usual blanket media promotion for this fringe-theory claim which was platformed by Science - one of the advantages of being part of a powerful Oxford old boys’ clique. You say it - doesn’t matter how illogical - they publish it - like it’s the word of God.)
All of the above cohorters remain good friends to this day. Together they leveraged their enormous power to plot, then prosecute the cover-up.
Oxford appears to be HQ for the Covid Atrocity - but it doesn’t stop there. Each of these actors have close friendships with other key experts from around the world who were integrally involved. For example, Holmes and Rambaut are regular collaborators with Kristian Andersen, who is good friends with Garry. Farrar is good friends with Francis Collins and Fauci. George Gao, in particular, is a very friendly guy:
Lipkin (Prox O) 27:40: I have so many close friends in China who I care about and who care about me and - you know - when you break bread with somebody over a period of 17 years ..I’m confident that if I hear something from..(others &) George Gao - they’re telling me what they know.
Great. So you all knew what George knew, right? As George is head of China CDC - that’s everything there was to know. How about release that scientific correspondence? Assuming you’re all telling the truth it will help to restore the public’s waning faith in the science experts! But you’ll never do that, will you? Why not?
The George Gao/Sir Jeremy relationship runs deep. The world’s two most influential Covid narrators are old friends. Naturally, Farrar was communicating with Gao in the nascent stages of Covid.
Farrar says the first he heard about it was Dec 31, but i don’t believe it. That’s two weeks after Lipkin first heard.
Take a glance at the entwined paths as you scroll through to the discussion below. Within Oxford, the Nuffield Department features prominently - that’s where the real magic happened. Bear in mind this is not a 7-steps to Kevin Bacon exercise - it’s zero steps to a CCP superstar at the heart of Covid.
Note:
The table is focused on the two king pins, George & Jeremy, but Eddie Everywhere slips his way in like a good footballer - can’t keep him out of the game.
**Era** | [**George Gao**](http://www.caspmi.cn/gaog/cv4.html) | **Jeremy Farrar** |
[**Deng Xiao-ping**](http://formosahut.com/forum/index.php?mode=entry&id=2362)
opening-up 1978-89 | **1979-1983:** Shanxi Agricultural University, China B.Sc | **1978-1980:** Churcher’s College A-levels, [lager lout](http://formosahut.com/forum/index.php?id=3131) |
**1983-1986:** Beijing Agricultural University, China MSc | **1980-1986:** University College London, BSc, BMed | |
**1987-1991:** Lecturer (Virology), College of Vet. Med., Beijing Agricultural University | **1986(?)-1998:** MD, Edinburgh;
Medical training London, Melbourne, San Francisco Oxford, Lecturer in neurology, completed Immunology PhD on myasthenia gravis - really struggled - met future wife, Christiane Dolecek at conf in Greece (1994), who helped (?) (George & Jeremy have crossed paths - have they met already?) | |
**1991-94:** **Oxford**, DPhil, Molecular Virology
1995-1998: Wellcome Trust/MRC Postdoctoral Research Assistant (RS1A), Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University (worked under McMichael) Research Assistant Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford | ||
**Anthrax**
2001-Iraq War 2 (2003-2011) | **1998-1999:** Research Associate (Band 3), MRC Human Immunology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, **Oxford** (under [McMichael](https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gao_George_Fu)) | **1996-2013:** Director Clinical Research Unit Ho Chi Minh City - **Oxford/Wellcome Trust/**[**NIH funded**](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmsctech/713/5113002.htm)
(Eddie: 1994-2004: Wellcome Trust Fellow in Biodiversity, Oxford) Begins regular Collabs with Andrew McMichael, Oxford Lecturer in Tropical Diseases, Oxford |
**1999-2001: Wellcome Trust** (UK) International Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School | ||
**SARS** | **2001-2004:** Lecturer, **Nuffield** Dept. of Clinical Medicine, **Oxford**
2004-2008: Director-General, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2004-now: Professor, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2006-now: Professor, University of Science and Technology of China 2008-now: Director, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology Vice-President, Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
Ebola (Nov-Dec 2013 outbreak - first recorded 2014-2016) | ||
**2013-now:** [CAMS-**Oxford** International Centre for Translational Immunology](https://www.camsoxford.ox.ac.uk/cti/principal-investigators)
(Eddie: 2014-2020 Guest Professor, Chinese CDC and Prevention, Beijing) 2015-now: President, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Cunji Medical College 2017-now: Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention | **2013-now:** Director **Wellcome Trust**; lecturer in Tropical Infectious Diseases, **Oxford**
(Wife Dolecek - Lecturer, Assoc Prof Nuffield Dept of Medicine, Oxford) 2013-now: Strategic Adviser, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (with Francis Collins) 2013-now: CAMS-Oxford International Centre for Translational Immunology 2015-now: Co-founder CEPI Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (Global Vaccine-Development Fund) 2017-: Scientific Advisory Group of WHO R&D Blueprint (epidemic preparedness) Adviser, WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Evolution and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (with Fouchier & Kawaoka) 2019-now: Chair Genome Research Limited board (includes Paul Schreier) 2019-now: Chair of Heads of International Research Organizations Published over 500 peer-reviewed research papers* | |
Published over 500 peer-reviewed research papers * |
The Oxford backroom Boys, Jeremy 2nd from left, back (photo courtesy of CAMS)
(note: Andrew McMichael, 2nd back-right - you’re coming onto the radar!)
The CAMS (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)/ Oxford collaboration is a vehicle of power-sharing. Gao and Farrar were integral in setting it up - they currently direct its operations.
Personnel from CCP-controlled institutions have been infiltrating western academic institutions - that were oh-too-eager to be infiltrated - for decades. That’s well-documented. Oxford accepted a $700 mil (!) donation from Tencent, owner of WeChat. Tencent is routinely used by the CCP to hunt down anyone expressing dissent in China.
Meanwhile back at the lab, Oxford/Tencent AI researcher Li Shen, was integral in the: establishment of vast facial recognition databases enabling people to be identified even if spotted in differing poses, and as they age.
Then there’s Congenica, a Wellcome genomic research partner, which is funded by/collaborates with BGI. (Note: China has numerous laws requiring or authorizing access to private-sector data by the central government.)
Then there’s DNAnexus - the name tells you the story - jointly funded by Wellcome and WuXi PharmaTech - it’s a data-base for gathered-DNA.
WuXi PharmaTech: (This) $15 million investment and alliance puts WuXi NextCODE’s unrivalled genome analytics on DNAnexus’s cloud platform, seamlessly linked to WuXi PharmaTech’s China platform .. (b)ringing cloud-based genomics to China and Chinese genomics to the world.
Great.
CAMS/Oxford genomics dream is not only about money - it’s an executive power collaboration - to achieve genomics supremacy. Master of the Universe level.
CAMS/Oxford: The CAMS-Oxford International Centre for Translational Immunology is a joint venture between the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), China Centre for Disease Control (China CDC), Beijing’s You’an Hospital (You’an), the University of Oxford’s Human Immunology Unit (HIU), and the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM).
(Founded in April 2013, one of the) three main themes underpin(ing) our human immunology research programmes (is):
i) analysis of the interplay between adaptive and innate immune responses to optimize vaccination strategies
Before Covid i would’ve read that - thought - oh - that sounds good.
Now it fills me with unease.
CAMS/Oxford: These .. objectives will be underpinned (the underpin of the underpinings) by the development of a joint translational programme, to carry out hypothesis driven clinical trials.
First time i read translational program i wasn’t sure what it meant. That was dumb - coz it’s obvious. It translates scientists’ lab work - to: field operations.
Especially in Xinjiang - and Africa. To save them.
Geroge Gao: Thus, Africa is undoubtedly one of the main public health battlefields for China in the future. .. In this way, cross-border spread of the diseases and risk factors can be prevented, reducing the risk for Chinese people.
Xinjiang being the other main public health battlefield where risk factors can be prevented.
Translation seems to be the special skill-set of George & Jeremy. They come as a team. The risk-takers - who promise to - reduce risk.
In the One Health thought-universe, which, by definition, excludes/punishes Different Thought matrices (such as Taiwan’s), George & Jeremy are the translational gatekeepers. You wanna get your project up? - gotta go through those two. If George & Jeremy want a narrative up - they know exactly who to call/fund.
Still, it takes a village. In this case the Oxford establishment - which is a damn-decent village if you live there.
CAMS/Oxford: The centre is founded on several long-standing collaborative relationships initiated by Prof Tao Dong (Oxford) .. with support from .. Professor Sir Andrew McMichael and Professor Vincenzo Cerudolo.
(Few more names for the suss file. Especially Sir Crops-sup-a-lot)
Significant contributions to .. programmatic support have been provided by many sponsors including the National Science Foundation China (NSFC), the Chinese Ministry for Science and Technology, and You’an Hospital.
The first two being powerful CCP-controlled functionaries.
In April 2013 Professor Hamilton (Oxford) visited Beijing to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing the CTI with Professor Cao Xuetao - President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
On behalf of the University of Oxford, Mr Darren Nash - Associate Head of the Nuffield Department of Medicine (Academic Support and Finance), also signed an MOU.
So a whole bunch of Oxford power elites playing footsie with the CCP.
Tried searching the details of those MOU’s - they don’t appear to be public. We can assume they were typical of other CCP MOU’s such as this one signed by Dan Andrews. It’s all about:
cooperation for mutual benefits in a new era with a common future to jointly combat global challenges (such as the Falun Gong)
Though the Oxford/CAMS nexus has special focus on:
interdisciplinary research in bio-medical sciences, including big-data application in biomedical research, bioinformatics .. and so on.
So it’s about genetics/AI/big-data sharing with a totalitarian surveillance-state - and so on…
Why are you doing that?
Reuters: China ..is likely to dominate many of the key emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and genetics within a decade or so, according to Western intelligence assessments.
So getting with the strength? But aren’t we on different sides? This is sensitive technology.
Nicolas Chaillan, Pentagon’s chief software officer, recently resigned in protest: We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion.
Especially if Oxford is helping China. If you can’t beat ‘em ….
CAMS/Oxford: With the institute’s talent cultivation and acquisition model, scientists will be able to have positions (in China) and they could enjoy the resources provided by both Oxford and CAMS. (my brackets)
China-UK Life Science and Medicine Summit - Farrar front 2nd from right
Oxford/Cams/BRI: *Professor Tao Dong from *Oxford University was born in Xinjiang .. and Professor Ruozheng Wang in Xinjiang, *.. started their collaboration in *2008 *with strong support from .. local government, Natural Science Foundation China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, MRC Human *Immunology *Unit & *Nuffield Department of Medicine (Oxford University). (Oxford/CAMS’s brackets)
Xinjiang, of course, being the home of the Uyghurs. What the heck is Oxford/Wellcome up to there with their genomic joint-ventures?
Oxford/Cams/BRI:* In September 2015, Professor Tao Dong (and) Professor Sir Andrew McMichael .. from the *Nuffield Department of Medicine travelled to Urumqi and Kashgai as part of the One Road, One Belt Initiative.
Someone get Clive Hamilton on the phone! He knows a thing or two about major institutions signing Belt & Road MOU’s.
Oxford/Cams/BRI:* They represented the department at the Silk Road Cancer *Immunology International Symposium Series.
Again - modern immunology is genomics. The Oxford collaborations are framed as curing cancer - but for a regime that forcibly sterilizes humans - because of their ethnicity - to cull their gene pool - genomics technology has other attractive applications.
Translationally speaking, identification of a rebellious gene in the lab would inform sterilization operations in the field.
Oxford/Cams/BRI: Since then over £3M has been generated to establish a joint immunology lab (genomic profiling lab), *with a MOU signed in *2015 between the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Xinjiang Medical University.
Another MOU. That’s a lot of Understanding between a totalitarian regime and Oxford. This Understanding with Xinjiang Medical University is more special though - coz it links to genomic surveillance of Uyghurs.
Xinjiang Medical University: The national physical examination (NPE) is a free physical examination provided by the Chinese government for all Xinjiang people. .
(Download the app for entry into the Free Society of the New Era. The Un-Free physically examined - please report to your nearest vocational training centre.)
Xinjiang Medical University: The data came from the physical examination data of Urumqi in 2018. .. This study was performed in accordance with .. the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region CDC ethical committee.
As an oxymoron, that’s hard to beat.
Radio Free Asia: A hospital for infectious diseases in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu), in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), has been turned into an internment camp as part of what some experts believe could be a system for harvesting organs* from detainees.*
*Last week, Omar Bahtiyar Omar (director Norway-based Uyghur Transitional Justice Database) pointed out imagery that showed a large cemetery located within a kilometer of the two camps .. which was later confirmed by RFA to be a *crematorium built in 2017.
Additionally, a “green corridor” was built at the same time for the expedited transport of human organs. Xinjiang Medical University’s organ transplant team was assigned to transport organs from the airport to the regional capital Urumqi on China Southern Airlines flight 6431 and completed seven trips in 2017.
So; the construction of a 3-in-1 translational facility for Uyghurs:
vocational training camp → organ harvesting hospital → crematorium.
Your one-stop Uyhghur-organ gift-shop. Including Halal organs for wealthy Saudis - allegedly. Fully harvested, a Falun Gong or Uyghur prisoner of conscience fetches $750k a pop.
With Xinjiang Medical University, Oxford’s genomics collaborating partner since 2008, handling the clinical translation part.
Ethan Gutmann (author of The Slaughter): You extract the organs from the living human being, you let them die. The organs are strapped to this machine, this rather smallish machine, that’s sitting there oxygenating them … Then the organs can have 20 hours of life, maybe 24 hours of life. So that’s enough time to get [an organ] to the airport to fly it over to the east coast of China.
Oxford/Cams/BRI:* In early 2018, a National Centre for International *Collaboration with Oxford *.. put us in a strong position to conduct world class medical research.. in Xinjiang. (This) will enable us to *directly translate *our research from the *bench to clinic. (and vice versa?)
BBC: China has vehemently denied these allegations, saying the crackdown in Xinjiang is necessary to prevent terrorism and root out Islamist extremism, and the camps are an effective tool for “re-educating” inmates in its fight against terrorism.
Theme: a lot of unethical stuff is done to fight terrorism - on both sides.
Apart from organ harvesting, Uyghur detainees are subjected to sterilization and used as translational lab rats for mysterious drug trials.
Art Newspaper (source: Uyghur Tribunal report) First, all new detainees are medically examined. Abortions are performed on all pregnant women before they enter the prisons. Once inside, both women and men are injected with unknown substances or forced to take unknown pills.
Diplomat: Abduweli Ayup (ex-detainee) explained the terror that fills every inmate, as they are subjected to unknown drugs and tests, which many detainees assume are meant to determine their suitability for organ harvesting.
PhysOrg: In 2020, Dr. Zenz published a further study revealing that Xinjiang authorities are administering unknown drugs and injections.
To what extent is Wellcome/Oxford involved in administering these unknown drugs and injections to Uyghur detainees - on top of DNA-gathering, bio-metric surveillance, and/or the sharing of the resultant data? That’s an open question. What we do know is:
What does a Wellcome funding vehicle focused on Vietnam have to do with the Ebola outbreak of 2013-14 on the border of Guinea and Sierra Leone? Quite a lot. For a start it provides a blueprint for the Covid cover-up
One of Farrar’s first initiatives as Director of Wellcome was to set up a One Health program in Vietnam called:
VIZIONS - The Vietnam Initiative on Zoonotic Infections: A Strategic Approach to Studying Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Farrar: Our focus will be on viral infections in Vietnam with special emphasis on zoonotic viruses: these are relatively under-studied and viruses of animal origin are the dominant source of emerging infectious diseases in humans.
Rubbish. They’re way over-studied. What’s understudied is transparency in the bio-security world - let’s see if that’s not the dominant source of emerging infectious diseases in humans - imagine the money/lives we could save if it is - all we’d have to do is stop it.
The epicenter being Vietnam, supposedly. Happens to be run by a totalitarian regime - luckily we’re leaving the politics out. We’ll look closer at a VIZIONS model consortium in action soon.
Unless we need to obfuscate the origin. Obviously. For the common good.
Characterize genetic diversity within virus populations on either side of the species-barrier;
It’s this genetic characterization on the human side of the species-barrier that worries me
Identify socio-demographic, environmental and behavioural drivers for disease emergence;
Pick me! Pick me! THE Science culture?
*Provide a *platform *and resource for complimentary research on human and animal pathogens, and nonviral zoonoses. The results will inform the *design of surveillance *.. and the *opportunity to conduct detailed investigations of .. zoonotic diseases.
Always with the fear of zoonoses. When bio-terrorism ran-out-of-steam - the science community suddenly started whipping-up a fear of nature. Exact same One Health goal though - inform the design of surveillance.
Write genomics, surveillance, zoonoses, platform, resources (money/power) on a whiteboard. You’re close to the essence of Sir Jeremy Farrar.
Zoonoses is the cynical/opportunistic part of his nature - pitched to the idiot masses - who swallow it - like he knew they would - to secure the other big-picture desires.
A publisher of Farrar’s Zoonotic VIZIONS was none other than Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance.
Epub 2019 Nov 13(!): Despite the global zoonotic disease burden, the underlying exposures that drive zoonotic disease emergence are not understood. Here, we aimed to assess exposures to potential sources of zoonotic disease and investigate the demographics, attitudes, and behavior of individuals with sustained occupational animal contact in Vietnam.
So timely! A paper alerting the world to the dangers of animal food processing - especially by backyard farmers in SE Asia - that may result in a pandemic at any second…
That belongs in the Timeline. Right after the Farrar/Koopmans/Nature entry on Nov 6. about the challenge to persuade countries to invest in a new surveillance system .. before its general effectiveness has been demonstrated at a country level. Were these papers a preparing of the waters?
Ultimately, our findings will be useful for better preparedness, intervention plans, disease prediction models, and the development of future research into zoonotic infections in Southeast Asia.
This research was a component of the VIZIONS programme conducted by OUCRU (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit) in Vietnam. The work was funded by Wellcome Trust of Great Britain (WT/093724). The funder had no role in the design of this project or this publication. (EcoHealth)
Yeah, that would be so out of character for Farrar to have a role in design or publication matters.
Another interesting Farrar VIZIONS papers was titled:
The evolution of Ebola virus: Insights from the 2013-2016 epidemic.
Authors: Holmes, E. C.; Dudas, G.; Rambaut, A.; and Andersen, K. G.
Pub: Nature, October 2016.
Quite the model consortium! Farrar, Nature, Holmes, Rambaut, Andersen.
West Africa is a fair way from Vietnam. Let’s see what that’s was about…
The 2013-14 (I’m not convinced about the 13 part) Ebola event was the first ever Ebola outbreak in West Africa. It was less deadly than previous versions, but more contagious. According to Andersen, Holmes, Rambaut:
28,646 confirmed and suspected cases documented
11,323 recorded deaths
The largest outbreak of Ebola on record - by far.
The evolution of Ebola virus: Insights from the 2013-2016 epidemic. (Nature paywall: $32 for a 6-page paper! Sponsored by Wellcome VIZIONS - how does that fit with Wellcome’s policy in support of open and unrestricted access to research literature? You can buy a whole book on the outbreak by Constantine Nana for $7-8 - way more insights.)
Authors: Holmes, E. C.; Dudas, G.; Rambaut, A.; and Andersen, K. G.
Pub: Nature, October 2016.
First question. What happened to Dudass? (He was doing his doctorate at the time - his supervisor was … Andrew Rambaut - guess he got drafted in.)
Second: Where’s Wally?
Garry was running a US bioweapons defense lab near the epicentre - great mates with Andersen - so what’s Walter Ian Lipkin’s connection?
Wally would have loved to be there - virus hunting - but he was too busy in China/New York being a global Celebrity Scientist. Someone’s gotta do it. You can stare down the barrel of a microscope all you like but it won’t be as effective at bringing society with us as:
- Contagion -
Q&A with a Master Virus Hunter intro: To make the movie Contagion (2011), Dr. Lipkin and his team created an imaginary virus and hued closely both to science and his experience of witnessing pandemics. “Is this fiction? Yes. Is it real? Absolutely,” he wrote in 2011.
So Wally was literally writing the script (more Covid than Ebola - that was Outbreak). Behind-the-scenes. Actually in-front-of-the-scenes. But back to the future with Andersen/Garry, Holmes, Rambaut, Dudass’s:
The 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa appears to have begun following human contact with an animal (probably bat) reservoir of Ebola virus (EBOV) in December 2013, in the small village of Meliandou in Guéckédou Prefecture, Guinea.
Straight off the bat, the authors promulgate/imprint an unsubstantiated origin narrative, citing a paper by Baize et al - the toddler, the hollow tree, the remote village of Meliandou, Guinea - it’s the pangolin narrative of the day. They are all careful to sneak in the odd appears and may haves but no alternatives are ever presented - it keeps getting repeated and repeated. It’s a deliberate, effective process.
As a story, it sounds about right: deadly bat pathogens lurking in the forests of deepest, darkest Africa, inevitably infecting, as Farrar writes in his own VIZIONS project: a cohort of high risk individuals .. engaging in .. bushmeat hunting .. behaviour.
Fits the bill of what the public will believe. But is it true?
For a start, individuals engaging in bushmeat hunting behaviour has been going on since individuals existed. But Ebola has only been around since 1975 when the US military started conducting bio-defense research in Sierra Leone.
Secondly, the strain of Ebola that sparked the outbreak is 97% identical with the Kikwit-95 strain (97%) from the 95 Zaire outbreak. They’re different but related.
Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo - as my uncle said - if a country has got democratic in it’s name, it’s not - is about 4000km away from Guinea as the bat flies.
Q: How did it travel so far without infecting anyone along the way?
I’m thinking: aeroplane.
Carried in by a scientist courier - for research purposes - to help wage war on the threat of a non-existent bioterrorism.
Don’t take my word for it - Andersen, who was co-leading a mission in Sierra Leone from 2010-14 to fight bioterrorism, co-authors a June 2016 Cell paper, Roots not Parachutes, lamenting there was a lot of gung ho behaviour going on in the international science community at that precise time:
In some instances, researchers ‘parachuted’ into the affected countries, conducted research in isolation, and departed without creating sustainable infrastructure or a lasting impact. In several cases, international scientists with no established collaborations in West Africa allegedly transported samples back to their home countries for further research, in many cases without permission or knowledge of the affected nations (Heymann et al., 2016).
In other words:
illegal smuggling of Ebola by international scientists - in many cases
- according to Kristian Andersen, citing Heymann et al.
How can that even be written in an academic paper published by Cell - and not spark a criminal investigation?
International Scientists smuggling the deadly Ebola virus - sorry, i can’t get over that.
That’s the hide-in-plain-sight behaviour that the real cohort of high risk individuals gets away with inside the international science scene.
Naturally, there was no talk of that behaviour in Andersen’s parallel 2016 paper a few months later with Holmes and Rambaut, titled The evolution of the Ebola virus: Insights …
In this evolution story:
It is believed that bats serve as the primary reservoir for EBOV. .. (T)*he origin and spread of the 2013–2016 EVD epidemic *seem well resolved.
appears - probably - seems - believed
In fact, Baize’s paper reports the first confirmed case was in a Health worker at Gueckedou hospital, Guinea on Feb 23. It speculates about a chain of 12 unconfirmed but suspected cases, going back 83 days, to the bat tree on Dec 2 - that may have lead to the first confirmed case but notes
Baize’s not well established theory, in turn, is based on what he calls initial epidemiologic investigation that he doesn’t cite but it appears to be a Fabian Leendertz expedition.
Let’s going exploring with Fabian in West Africa …
Science: Soon after the outbreak was identified as Ebola in March 2014, wildlife epidemiologist Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin went to southeastern Guinea to look for signs of an outbreak in wildlife. Leendertz, with three more German veterinarians spent 4 weeks in the region, capturing bats from four sites and surveying two protected forest areas.
On Mar 28, more than 3 months after the child’s death.
The researchers found no evidence that wild animals were dying of Ebola, they report in a paper published online today in EMBO Molecular Medicine. The populations of chimpanzees, duikers, and other large mammals were at about the same levels they had been in the previous surveys in the region. They also found no direct evidence of Ebola virus infections in any of the 169 bats (from at least 13 species) that they captured and tested.
No evidence of any animal infection. No evidence of bats hosting the disease. Not that that’s ever stopped a zoonotic scientist before. Or later should i say …
But their visit to Meliandou (Jan 28) yielded intriguing clues.
(The) researchers learned of (a) tree and linked it to one of the outbreak’s first victims. But, in a frustrating twist, the tree had burned to a stump just before they arrived, thwarting their search for evidence that might confirm the scenario.
So convenient. Reminiscent of the Wuhan wetmarket being disinfected - which supposedly thwarted the zoonatis’ efforts to prove Covid was natural. Note: when Science says the outbreak’s first victims, they mean suspected. No-one from the village was definitively confirmed - they were all long dead and buried by the time Leendertz got there. Yes, they reportedly had symptoms of fever and diarrhea, but other illnesses in Africa have those symptoms, including cholera, malaria, typhoid, and Lassa fever. As Garry notes: Lassa cases come in all the time. .. (It’s) very similar to Ebola in the way patients present their symptoms .. you can’t tell them apart from the symptoms or anything. Even a very experienced clinician cannot tell the difference between Ebola virus and Lassa virus.
Science: The hollow tree was only 50 meters from the house where the toddler lived; children used to play in it, residents told the researchers. But on 24 March, the tree had burned, Leendertz says—and all that was left were the stump, fallen branches, and ashes.
Leendertz: There are different stories about why it burned.
Science declines to report what those stories were.
When the tree started burning, there was a “rain of bats,” villagers told Leendertz—a small, smelly species with a long tail locally called lolibelo and sometimes “mice that can fly.” In the ash surrounding the tree, the researchers found DNA fragments that match the Angolan free-tailed bat Mops condylurus, an insect-eating species .. that fits the villagers’ description.
A hollow-tree with a lot of bats roosting in it. Not unusual. The theory was that the toddler was playing in the hollow tree and got infected. But:
… they found no infected bats in their samples (from dead ones collected around the tree).
Leendertz: The virus must be extremely rare in bat populations,. Because bats are hunted so much, if the Ebola virus were widespread, we’d see infections all the time.
Good point.
Andersen/Holmes/Rambaut agree: a single spill-over infection seems the more likely.
So there’s no evidence of a bat virus but it’s believed by Andersen-Holmes-Rambaut to have been a bat. Let’s call it the Lone Bat Theory:
This finding suggests that EBOV Makona may be fairly new to West Africa, sharing recent common ancestry with Middle African variants that are found thousands of miles away.
Molecular clock dating analyses have also shown that all recorded human EVD outbreaks caused by EBOV appear to share a common ancestor around 1975.
Notably, this is around the time of the first described EVD outbreak in 1976, suggesting that the EBOV lineage experienced a severe genetic bottleneck before the first human outbreak.
Sure did - it had bottled up the entirety of human history in fact. Was Ebola a prelude to the Covid scenario? Was it also a case of scientists taking harmless viruses from nature - souping them up in lab animals - especially monkeys, bats, rats - then one of them gets loose - infects a lab worker - an accidental needle prick?
Garry: In the laboratory environment, that’s a more controlled environment. .. But there’s always a chance that a mistake is made. And so I think you have probably read that the Canadians have pulled some of the people back from Sierra Leone already just today or yesterday. And so, yeah, these are considerations. This is high-risk work.
Meanwhile back in the time-machine: Wonder what was happening in the 1970’s? Garry reveals that:
In fact, there’s been a research program on the Lassa fever since the 1970s set up by the (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and other groups.
We can assume it was biodefense related - the other groups being military.
Apart from that, the Vietnam War was being lost while the Cold War was still in full swing. Proactive bio-weapons inventing was running rampant until 1969, the year of the first Lassa outbreak in Nigeria, when Nixon banned it following a review of the program.
Nixon: There had been no such review in over 15 years. As a result, objectives and policies in this field were unclear and programs lacked definition and direction.
In other words: secret bioweapons research had become a world unto itself since the post WW2 era.
As with Obama’s moratorium on GoF research in 2014, which was triggered by a slew of accidents, was Nixon’s review prompted by a lab-mishap? Or did he simply realize the potential of bioweapons to undermine America’s dominance in traditional military firepower? Not much good having nuclear missiles if all the enemy has to do is release a virus. He avowed the US would never employ bio-technology as a weapon - stockpiles of bioweapons were destroyed - agreements were negotiated with Russia to do the same. Military scientists were limited to bio-weapons defense research thereafter.
Given bioweapon research cohorts had operated for so long as their own unaccountable kingdom, did Nixon’s ban put some powerful noses out of joint in the world of scio-security?
But I’m diverging. Back to the Lone Bat Theory:
The permutations and combinations are starting to mount. As with RatG13 or the Laos bats - both close to 97% similarity - some astonishing evolutionary leaps must have taken place in a minuscule timeframe in order for this bat to effect Andersen et al’s single spillover infection …
Or: the Zaire strain was held at a lab in the vicinity, and the changes were done there.
As Garry would later say about the evolutionary contortions you would need for Covid to be natural - I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature – its stunning. Of course, in the lab it would be easy.
To summarize, 12 unconfirmed cases along a not well established epidemiological trail, is a burned out tree that thwarted the search for evidence - and a belief that it came from bats - with no other evidence of animal infection. In this tree, a single bat spawned a version of a 40 year-old virus from 1000’s of miles away then infected a lone toddler in a remote village - and no-one else. Then disappeared from animal populations.
Peter Walsh, Cambridge, Ebola specialist: It (the hollow tree) is suggestive, but it certainly doesn’t rise to a ‘smoking gun’ level.
So why on earth are Andersen, Holmes, Rambaut saying the origin seems well resolved?
Thanks to this cohort of scientists, the narrative became well established. They repeated, unquestioningly, the speculations of others - which were later repeated by other researchers - who fed it to the media. Who printed it as science gospel - to the exclusion of all else.
Notice any similarities?
Whereas Covid became a pandemic killing millions, turning the world upside-down - thus inspiring a small army of internet sleuths to re-examine the official narrative - the Ebola outbreak, the biggest in history, remained largely confined to three African countries.
As a result, Ebola’s equally dubious origin story went mostly unchallenged. Not to say there weren’t researchers questioning it. Nana’s book explores the merits/discrepancies of several investigators who did raise concerns, poses the question Why? But they were small enough to be brushed aside by the powerful science community/media elites. No official investigation has ever been held into the possibility of a lab-event.
And so yet another spurious origin story gets passed into science zoonosis lore - without any substantial proof - or rigorous examination.
Around the time of the Ebola outbreak, before the first cases were confirmed/made public, came this announcement:
VANCOUVER, Jan. 14, 2014 GLOBE NEWSWIRE – Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq:TKMR) (TSX:TKM), a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced that it has dosed the first subject in a Phase I human clinical trial of TKM-Ebola, an anti-Ebola viral therapeutic that is being developed under a US$140 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Nice money if you can get it! Since Anthrax, if your project has got anything to do with the non-existent threat of bioterrorism, then there’s a bottomless pit of public money to support it.
Dr. Mark J. Murray, Tekmira’s President and CEO: Building upon our compelling preclinical results, the Phase I data generated will guide our determination of the appropriate dose of this drug for the potential use as a medical countermeasure against this lethal hemorrhagic fever virus. We remain on track to have data from this trial available in the second half of this year.
Four things:
Following the outbreak 2014, Tekmira tweaked their RNAi drug to target the Guinea version of Ebola, but the trial was unceremoniously halted due to a lack of efficacy.
Peter Horby, Oxford, study head (June 2015): It is a great tribute to the team in Sierra Leone that the trial has been run so efficiently and that we now have substantial experience on the use of TKM-Ebola-Guinea in patients with Ebola. While the trial has reached a statistical endpoint, final conclusions on the efficacy and tolerability of the drug must await full analysis of the data.
So what does statistical endpoint mean exactly? Hope you don’t mean the subjects met a statistical endpoint …
The drug has not demonstrated an overall therapeutic benefit. But we need time to look at all the data to interpret that in the context of the patient mix and other variables. Final conclusions on efficacy and tolerability must await full analysis.
That analysis is still must awaiting publication.
Then there’s this: Tekmira’s TKM-Ebola (subsequent) trials in Guinea started .. with financial and other support from British NGO Wellcome Trust.
Hmm. So we’ve got Andersen, Garry, Holmes, Rambaut, Oxford (Horby - head of the RECOVERY trial coordinated by Farrar that killed-off Hydroxy by overdosing the trial patients), Springer Nature (Stefan Von Holtzbrinck - his father was publisher for the Nazis), and Wellcome Trust (Farrar).
All thereabouts in the Ebola 14 outbreak. If the plot gets any thicker we could stand a spoon up in it.
Finally, in 2015, the Tekmira/Wellcome/US Dept Defense drug trial was cancelled when it came to a statistical endpoint. Had a great ride on the stockmarket before that though if you were a shrewd investor. Tekmira dropped all interest in researching Ebola from 2015 on.
You could call this a strange set of coincidences, but Dr. Cyril Broderick, Liberian scientist didn’t:
DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira .. to conduct Ebola research. This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. The DoD is listed as a collaborator in a ‘First in Human Ebola clinical trial’ (NCT02041715), which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March.
I’m not sure that’s true. I know it was a rumour going around. The Jan 2014 event was a Phase 1 trial. It had already been pre-clinically trialed on macaques in a biosafety-level-4 biocontainment at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease. Lancet published a paper on it:
Lancet/Tekmira, Post exposure protection of nonhuman primates against a lethal Ebola virus challenge with RNA interference:
The monkeys were then placed in primate jackets, returned to their cages, and tethered. After 7 days, the animals were inoculated intramuscularly with a target dose .. of ZEBOV (Kikwit strain)
I wonder if people haven’t got this trial confused with what happened in Sierra Leone.
I’m not easily shocked but i would be if they were injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. Surely Tekmira was only testing tolerability. Details of the trial are scant though.
It is also odd why Tekmira would go to Sierra Leone to test an Ebola drug - if it’s only about tolerability. Remembering the first trial was at least a month before the outbreak was known, and Sierra Leone had never had an Ebola outbreak.
What Andersen et al don’t mention in the Nature article is that Tulane University (Robert Garry) and Scripps (Andersen), which formed the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium had: established research programs in three West African countries, namely Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Nigeria, which provide clinical and laboratory resources for the studies on viral hemorrhagic fever. (Constantine Nana, The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Why? p27) This included a research lab in the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone.
The Consortium was funded by NIH to the tune of $15 mil from 2010-2014. Andersen calls it a founding five-year contract - although in a 2014 interview Garry says he had been working with Kenema hospital for 10 years.
Garry: In fact, there’s been a research program on the Lassa fever since the 1970s set up by the CDC and other groups. So, after the war was over in 2003 or so, we went back there and started to rebuild the program.
So The Consortium circa 2010 was simply the formalization of a group led by Garry that had been operating in Sierra Leone for 40 years.
Although the initial focus was Lassa, Garry states that prior to the Ebola outbreak, they had also been working on Ebola in Kenema:
We had started some projects on Ebola just to extend what we’d learned about Lassa to this other very serious disease.
Garry supplies no further details of these projects on Ebola - no research was published. It does indicate that the Consortium had samples of the Ebola virus - in order to work on it. Was this work carried out in Kenema? That would be very dangerous if it was.
As always, the point of these studies, according to the Consortium’s website (administered by Andersen), was to develop countermeasures against bioterrorism.
At the time of the outbreak, we had:
Everything was going great - until it wasn’t. The first setback was a public tide-turning in the affected populations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Blogger Jon Rappoport reported that on July 23, 2014, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation posted a list of emergency offensive measures to tackle the Ebola outbreak. These included:
Tulane University to stop Ebola testing during the current Ebola outbreak.
He provided a link to the FB page - it’s gone 404. I’m assuming it’s true. Pity screenshot wasn’t big in 2014. (Aside: Billy Bostickson is the master of screenshot. Can’t get stronger evidence in an argument than look - you said it.)
Which would beg the question: Why would the Health Ministry urgently ban Garry, one of the world’s leading bioweapons countermeasure technicians from conducting tests? When you currently have the worst outbreak ever?
The inference is the Ministry of Health was aware something untoward was going on at The Consortium’s Kenema Government Hospital lab in Sierra Leone. In close proximity to the original outbreak. Operating within a fabric of established governmental corruption. As usual, it takes two to tango.
A plausible alternative to the Ministry’s post is it may have been reacting to public sentiment in the West African countries.
There were widespread rumours in Sierra Leone that the outbreak had originated from Garry’s and Andersen’s Kenema lab. Never comes up in the papers in Nature sponsored by Jeremy Farrar’s VIZIONS, but it was a real thing. To the point of being dangerous for Garry and Andersen personally - must have been exciting - scary exciting - high adrenaline.
Adia Benton, anthropologist, Northwestern Uni: Another origin story centered Ebola at the intersections of race, militarization, and the political economy of scientific research. Many West Africans and people of African descent questioned whether the American military–funded laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leone, and its partners at Tulane University were to blame. They believed scientists working in the lab conducted experiments that put local populations at risk.
Indeed, these ‘rumours’ about Tulane led to a resistance movement. It included incidents of violence aimed at foreign health agencies and their workers in general. Youth groups enforced a DIY quarantine zone to keep foreign aid workers out.
James Fairhead, Ebola-Anthropology, 2015 (PDF, p3): June and July 2014, twenty six Kissi-speaking villages in Guéckedou Prefecture isolated themselves from Ebola response, cutting bridges and felling trees to prevent vehicle access, or stoning intruding vehicles. In Tekoulo, youth isolated themselves in farm camps in self-imposed quarantine, saying: “We don’t want any visitors…. We don’t want any contact with anyone. Wherever those people have passed (foreign Zoonati), the communities have been hit by illness (Nossiter 2014a).”
Science: (Peter Walsh) and his colleagues are continuing to sample bats and other wildlife in the region—most recently from Ivory Coast, close to the Guinean border. In Guinea, he says, surveys aren’t possible at the moment. With the Ebola epidemic still raging there, “people are very suspicious,” he says—especially of anyone who wants to capture bats.
Garry and Andersen were in the eye-of-the-storm of all that. Forget about whether they were involved in a lab-origin for Ebola for a minute, the sheer fraughtness of the situation is high drama. You’d need military protection to travel around. Even with that, you’d still need balls.
The then-Minister of Health was Miatta Kargbo, a trailblazer for women in high politics in Sierra Leone.
A month after the 404’d FB post, this happened:
By the power vested in President Ernest Bai Koroma, he on Friday, 29th August 2014, effected changes in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, a press release from State House states.
“His Excellency is pleased to make certain changes at the Ministry of Health as implementation of the National Ebola Response Plan gathers momentum.”
The release adds that the newly-appointed Minister of Health and Sanitation is now Dr. Abu-Bakarr Fofanah while the former Minister, Miatta Kargbo has been recalled to State House in the Strategic Policy Unit until further notice.
”(I)n order to create a conducive environment for the efficient handling of the Ebola outbreak in the country, it has become necessary for changes to be made in the political leadership of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.”
Oh, so it was political.
The release further informs that in the case of the international committee, in addition to the relevant Ministries, its membership will include the United Nations Resident Coordinator, the Chief Medical Officer and the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative. The reconstituted Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be co-chaired by the WHO Representative and the Chief Medical Officer.
Yeah, very political - eerily like the power structure we have now - but globally.
Sierra Leone’s new Minister of Health is a well-grounded, brilliant and impressive young man who also holds an Advanced Diploma in tropical medicine from the London School of Hygiene and also from the Institute of Tropical Medical in Berlin, from where he further graduated with an Advanced Certificate in Vaccinology.
(Rabbit-hole-within-a-rabbit-hole alert: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: Wind back a few months to June 29. 2014 - there’s this:
A major new report by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for the UK’s influential All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, outlines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges for the UK as a leader in global health.
The report was launched .. at Portcullis House on Monday 29 June with senior health policy makers. Speakers included George Freeman MP, Life Sciences Minister; Lord Howell, Chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society: Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust; and Lord Kakkar, UK Business Ambassador for Healthcare and Life Sciences.
Farrar: This (2014) report is superb in showing how far we have come, but we cannot be complacent. The world is facing enormous challenges, and we need strong global organisations with authority and leadership.
By 2016 Wellcome had it’s own lab in Sierra Leone with authority and leadership:
The lab at the University of Makeni (UNIMAK) – a collaboration with the University of Cambridge supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust – will be officially opened today (Friday 22 January, 2016) by Sierra Leonean Health Minister Dr Abu Bakarr Fofanah.
To further confuse matters, the ex-Minister of Health was accused of corruption by the Commission of Inquiry report which had found Miatta Kargbo wanting for non-supply of 20 ambulances amounting to US$1.05 mil.
Kargbo denied the allegation - her supporters said it was political. Could well be.
Don’t look at me, i don’t know.
What we do know for sure:
As Fauci said when pleading for Cheney’s bio-terror Bioshield before congress after Anthrax:
Biotech firms are our industrial partners - they are essential to countermeasure development.
But they want some assurances if they are successful that there’ll be a market for their product.
Tulane University School of Medicine virologists Robert Garry (left) and Dr. James Robinson are part of a team of collaborators who’ve been researching Lassa fever in West Africa for more than 14 years. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)
Robert Garry: Unfortunately – and I hate to harp on this – but back in June — and you can look up what I was saying in June (their link) – I was one of the few people saying this outbreak could take a spin for the worst and turn out of control. Unfortunately, the international response has been way too slow. And so those predictions unfortunately have come true.
They’re miraculous clairvoyants the Zoonati - you have to give em that much.
All the Prox O-5 authors are intriguing crazy characters. Garry went under the radar somewhat in the beginning compared to Andersen, Holmes, Lipkin - who were the designated media team - so more out-there.
That leaves you with: Bob Garry, Andrew Rambaut
Research/writer-wise, the Prox-O-5 are gifts from God that never stop giving. Lipkin was the obvious one, CCP COI’s up the kazoo, then Honorary Eddie Holmes, since he’s an Aussie (the real Dark Continent) - then Andersen - Scripps’s finest - also in bed with China, waging his (lost) battle against Drastic on Twitter …
But when you finally arrive at Garry you get to a foundational US DoD dude. Who Andersen openly admires as a friendly genius along with Rambaut, on the Andersen Lab website. On the surface Andersen and Garry seem like an odd-couple, but they are great friends..
When you finally, finally arrive at Rambo - he’s a different kettle of fish altogether - younger - suave -Rambaut & Andersen are not an odd couple - they’re a perfect match - though Rambaut avoids the limelight - a population engineer whiz on the computer- Farrar’s Oxford-Edinburgh clique’s hottest hotshot.
Whereas Lipkin, Andersen, Holmes cut-the-part as THE science experts on TV, Bob Garry looks like an arms dealer dressed up in a lab-coat. The popped button in the photo around his gut is a nice touch.
A book for each of the authors is in the works. As is finishing the porch. Meantime we’re visiting an Ebola snippet of Bob’s colorful scio-security life in Sierra Leone:
A month after the July 23 FB post by the Health & Sanitation Ministry announcing Tulane had been directed to stop Ebola testing, Garry and Andersen reportedly lost their NIH foundational funding.
Aug, 2014: According to Constantine Nana (p25), the government of the United States decided not to renew this funding (to the Consortium) in August 2014, during the Ebola crisis, without stating the motivation for the decision. (my bold)
Edit: At first i thought oh, another indication that something went wrong, NIH got nervous, pulled the plug. I did ask the author if he was sure about that claim, he said he was. But there’s this:
National Academy of Sciences: Stepping back to explain initial stages of the Ebola diagnostic development, Garry said funding from NIH for initial development was received in May 2014, and field testing was initiated in July and August of that year. Additional funding was received in December 2014 from the Gates Foundation and the Paul Allen Foundation to push the product through to approval for emergency use.
It may be Garry lost NIH funding for the original VHFC Lassa project, but money was still coming in from NIH for Ebola. Or did he get funding in May, lose it August? That would be something.
There does appear to have been a scramble for funds by Garry in Aug 2014:
Garry, Aug 29: I would be going back (to Kenema) except that there are things that are needed that I can’t do over there like be in communication with people who are funding the work (Collins, Fauci) and trying to get more funding. .. I would love to be over there with my colleagues and staff (6 of whom died), but it’s much more difficult to communicate with the NIH and many of the other entities that we need to deal with to keep the program going and to rebuild it. I’m the project leader and so I have to get the money, is the way that works.
Garry’s efforts were fruitful - the Consortium has managed to continue as an organization until this day, describing itself as a partnership of academic and industry scientists. The partners listed on VHFC website are: Kenema Govt Hospital, Tulane, Scripps, La Jolla Institute, Harvard, University of Texas, Center for Viral Systems Biology, ACE GID, Zalgen Labs (Garry’s company) and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Immunotherapeutic Consortium. In a 2014 NAS article, two more small-to-medium-sized bio-tech companies, Autoimmune Technologies, and Corgenix Diagnostics, are also listed as members.
Put them together you’ve got a decent funding base.
Autoimmune Technologies website: Autoimmune Technologies is a member of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium. .. Autoimmune Technologies is a New Orleans biomedical company which was founded in 1995 to license and develop diagnostic and therapeutic technologies from Tulane University’s School of Medicine (Garry). (T)he Company’s research to date has been supported by U.S. Government grants and contracts totaling approximately $24 million.
VHFIC (different from VHFC), lists its funders as Burroughs Wellcome (a US branch of Wellcome), CDC and NIH. That Wellcome pops-up in the mix is no surprise by this stage in the journey. More evidence of the long-standing ties between Farrar and the Prox-O-5 Inc. As the Italian backpacker said to me in 1984 in Amsterdam when i generously offered him a sizeable piece of left-over hash before i left Holland - uhm … yeah ….. ok - put it on the pile on the top shelf of my locker
A page on the VHFIC website lists the groups collaborators - they include Garry and Andersen, but also the Prince of GoF scientist, Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Science: In 2011, Fouchier and Kawaoka alarmed the world by revealing they had separately modified the deadly avian H5N1 influenza virus so that it spread between ferrets.
Kawaoka is a specialist in souping up animal viruses to make them more world-alarmingly deadly. The fact that he’s in the same sentence as Garry/Andersen, Ebola, US military, and the Kenema Government Hospital is a worry.
ACE GID: a Nigeria-based organization supported by the World Bank.
ACE GID (Academy Center of Excellence Genomics of Infectious Diseases) website: ACEGID’s international partners include Harvard University, Tulane University, the University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Trust, and the U.S. Department of Defence.
ACE GID LinkedIn: Established in 2013 and supported by the World Bank and the US National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) H3Africa consortium (Wellcome Trust/NIH), the ACEGID platform is building genomics pipelines.
That’s interesting. H3Africa, a controversial Wellcome/NIH collaboration to collect genomic data from African populations, was criticized for its helicopter approach and the misuse of subjects’ personal genomic data. ACE-GID was a genomics pipeline in that operation. You also have to ask why is the US Dept of Defense a listed partner of an organization set-up to support West African genomics researchers?
Center for Viral Systems Biology: An offshoot group from the Andersen Lab at Scripps - which also contains several employees from Garry’s Zalgen Labs. The leadership group includes Andersen and Garry. Listed partners include NIAID (Fauci). A recent paper on Sierra Leoneans blood samples co-authored by Andersen/Garry was funded by NIH.
So Garry/Andersen’s Consortium is made up of several groups, which also happen to feature Garry/Andersen in their leadership structures.
Each group tapping its own funding pipeline from the US Government, including the Dept of Defense, NIH, NIAID. As well as Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation. Doesn’t get any better funded than that.
In 2017, he NIAID funding fountain surged again:
Tulane News, 2017: The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University more than $12 million to test a promising drug treatment against Lassa fever and develop a vaccine against the deadly disease endemic in parts of West Africa.
The NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Fauci) awarded virologist Robert Garry two, five-year grants for the preclinical research — $5.72 million to evaluate a potent Lassa fever antibody drug cocktail and $6.32 million (money cocktail) to design a vaccine based on a recently discovered key antibody target (Tulane’s link) on the surface of the virus.
Not bad going for a guy who was in the hottest of hot-seats back in 2014:
Dr. Cyril Broderick, 2014: Disturbingly .. the US government has a viral fever bioterrorism research laboratory in Kenema, *a town at the *epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Bob & Kristian’s outfit. Not the epicentre - but near it.
The US government funding of Ebola trials on healthy humans comes amid warnings by top scientists in Harvard and Yale that such virus experiments risk triggering a worldwide pandemic.
African countries and people should .. seek damages from these countries, some corporations, and the United Nations. Evidence seems abundant against Tulane University*, and suits should start there. *
Prof Broderick was half-right. We got the worldwide pandemic - but no law suits - that hasn’t happened - not yet - not so much as a proper investigation - for Ebola - or Covid.
In fact the opposite happened - same way it did after Antrhax - same way it always does - a funding explosion.
NIH grants since Covid:
Robert Garry: $ 54.64 million
Andersen: $ 23.23345 million
Scripps: over $ 6 Billion (Consortium partner, home of Andersen)
(credit Arun on Twitter)
Farrar embraces the mantle as a visionary risk-taker - but is that what the world wants from our leaders at the helm? What risks are you taking on our behalf exactly? With whom?
The same way you don’t want your accountant to be a reckless risk-taker with your money - you don’t want your genomic futurists being reckless with your ethics regulations.
But that’s what we got.
Below are quotes from Sir Jeremy’s speeches. Interestingly, or not, if you’ve heard one, you’ve heard them all. Exactly the same themes, often the same anecdotes.
Farrar, TED Talk 2016: 0:25 *I think all of us - at some point in our lives - are faced with some decisions - *we don’t really ever quite understand the implications of the decisions we reach.
So prescient! Like the decisions made in the Feb 1 Teleconference? Your point though is - never let that stop you.
Farrar 13:40: At a time when societies and politics may be taking us in a direction of narrow nationalism and isolationism, where we look inward and not outward, i think it’s ever ever more critical for .. those of us who truly truly believe the world is now a very very small place .. (we know that coz we’ve collected its data)* (to) have the *courage to grasp the moment - to realize if we bring the full force of all .. our expertise to bear, we can truly change the world.
You changed the world alright Champ - no argument there. You also restate your sworn enemy - anti-globalist sentiment - rally your troops to crush it with the full force of your immensely powerful One-Everything machine.
Farrar: *And I *believe *if we have the *courage *to *dream *and if we have the *courage *to *commit *ourselves to investing .. in science .. I *believe that we can make the world a safer place. That’s the opportunity that we must grasp - it’s there.
Lot of believing in Jeremy’s speeches - for a scientist. Sounds more like a religious gathering. The Belief to carpe diem.
Making us safer. By being risky.
In science, i’ve come to learn, making us safe is code for increased surveillance/reduced freedoms. To a scio-surveillant’s way of thinking: the price of Freedom - is Freedom.
Not sure about the courage though. You are the goliath, Jeremy. How much courage do you need to step on ants protesting your disruption? You were at the height already. You’ve got Big-Everything on your side. Or do you mean the courage to morally unmoor? Like Hitler did. To set sail in a sea where you can kill 5 mil counting without thinking. Not fearing the edge. Sleeping well at night knowing you’re doing it
- for the common good -
NIH Report: Wellcome is uniquely untethered, Farrar admitted, describing the organization’s “incredibly privileged” position of having its own endowment, an independent governing board and no shareholders to keep happy.
Farrar: It comes with a tremendous responsibility to be accountable for what we do and to be as transparent as we can be* …*
Sure does. So how about handing over/redacting the Feb 1 Teleconference emails for a start? Not that transparent, right?
…in order to achieve the real change we seek.
Hmm, what are you up to, Jeremy, with your disruptive real changes?
Farrar, Nature, 2007: *The question, as in the words of Brutus to Cassius in *Shakespeare’s *tragedy of almost 500 years ago, is whether we are *shrewd enough, bold *enough *and committed enough to take advantage of the tide?
We can safely say you were/are - shrewd, bold, committed. (We’ll get back to Brutus later)
Farrar, Nature, 2007: We must address the issue of bureaucracy and over-regulation .. before it stops all clinical research8. A new global agreement is needed on clinical research guidelines based on evidence and an appreciation of just how dangerous over-regulation* can be to human health. .. This will come back to haunt us in the future*
Yeah - under-regulation of GoF-experimentation-gone-mad likely caused Covid .. that can be harmful to human health as well. Even more hauntingly so than over-regulation, right?
Either way, this anti-regulation crusade to enable your risk-taking approach to medicine is a key part of your manifesto. Criticized by fellow-scientists for conducting hasty experimental drug trials in Africa - trading expediency for data that wouldn’t be reliable - you shrug that off saying: if we wait for the data, it will be too late. (slightly paraphrased)
That’s radical. Very bold - very risky.
Farrar, Nature, 2007: If we are to fully realize the opportunities of the present scientific revolution, we must .. not make patient-orientated research so difficult that we prevent critical research from being conducted.
In fact, you’re quite the activist, when it comes to diluting ethics guidelines - to make clinical trials less daunting and cumbersome.
At least that explains why so much of your Wellcome patient-orientated research revolution is conducted in the ethics free-zones of certain African dictatorships - and Xinjiang.
As for your revolution? Aren’t revolutions supposed to be the oppressed rising up? Not we at the height becoming more at the height?
The Beatles had the right sentiment:
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao - you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow
Except you did make it:
Carrying pictures of Chairman Xi - so we can organ harvest ethics-freeeee! Don’t you know it’s gonna beeeee - Allriiight
It’s one thing to have a bunch of wild ideas but how on earth did you ever get them up? Well, you have a massive power-base and a bunch of sycophantic supporters within the science community - that helps. Your colleagues provide further insight:
He’s a visionary. He is willing to take risks.
an activist who.. at the same time is a very big-picture thinker
(Not normal big-picture thinker - very big)
He’s massively driven, and a great visionary.
Jeremy’s very much a shrewd team player who has brokered funding from several sources in negotiations with .. China.
A shrewd ‘visionary’ - activist - risk-taker - good at brokering funding with the CCP.
Most of them i’d agree - but the very big*-picture visionary? Depends how you define visionary*.
For mine, it’s more than someone having a grandiose thought bubble - equipped with the mega-power to enact it.
A visionary is someone who has the rare ability to:
- think things through -
All aspects. Not limited to one’s power-accumulating self-interest. Be able to think like a Grand Master chess player. Envision how moves play out - as if you are your opponent - see not only the good that might come from a move - but the bad. Weigh that up.
But that’s not how Sir Jeremy approaches life. It’s more your devil-may-care style where … *we are faced with some decisions - *we don’t really ever quite understand the implications of the decisions we reach. (or care)
Farrar (2018): This week we announced the creation of the Wellcome Leap Fund (the Great Leap Forward?), a new £250 million fund designed to fast forward .. progress (that sounds eerily like Covid) by taking greater risks and funding ambitious research programmes at scale. .. In the meantime, I am off for a walking cycling and sailing holiday in the Alps – I’ll be in touch when I am back.
Nice. Set the dial to maximum risk - then pop off for a holiday in the Alps - we’ll see how it works out when I get back…
Now there’s no turning back.
Farrar, Nature: We are at a crucial juncture in international health; .. we must grasp the opportunity .. or we will lose our ventures.
And grasp it you did. Congratulations - you won your ventures. Freedom lost.
Though let’s call it the battle - not the war.
Scientists have long sneered at religion as something the ignorant masses believe in - but the science community exhibits so many of the worst excesses of a religious organization in the name of THE Science, it’s scary.
The day i realized i had a faith in science was the day i stopped believing.
Science is not supposed to be a religion. Why am i believing in it? It’s meant be observed details - that can be verified - or not.
The reality is you kinda have to. A normal person doesn’t have time to research, verify the pronouncements of world-leading scientists - we have to trust them. Many, not all, scientists trade off that trust to move the relationship with the public into a mystical world.
This shift towards a religious movement comes right from the top. Farrar is our shepherd-in-chief. He peppers his speeches with exhortations to believe - artfully delivers rallying calls to those who truly, truly believe.
Desert Island intro: [00:01:39]: Now after a lifetime at the frontline of medicine, he’s a believer in the benefits of becoming comfortable with and effective during periods of uncertainty. He says there are no rules. There are no textbooks to follow here. These are judgement calls made in the very best faith.
Lipkin talks of preaching in the wilderness about his:
… international surveillance system - this is the future for us - (31:40) this is what will keep us secure on the planet - this is what we need…
Another telltale sign of zealotry is the desire to vilify a perceived enemy. In Lord of the Flies it’s interesting to note that the boys didn’t bother too much with inventing a God - the Devil was way more important - a powerful force for shaping/controlling the culture - with the inventors/narrators of the devil conveniently installed at the top.
For Farrar the devil is the anti-globalization and/or the vaccine/lose-all-my-freedoms-hesitant movements - the great threat to the One-Everything dream. As an establishment leader, he warns it is eroding trust in institutions … (which is) exacerbated by social media - which in turn - acted - upon the direction of the Lancet Statement and Prox O scientists, which Farrar coordinated, to censor/ban such talk. That’s using your clout to be as proactive with manipulating the future of humanity as you can get.
There’s saying it, but then there’s doing it. Who’s prepared to step-up and do the dirty work?
Farrar, Daszak, Lipkin, Holmes, Andersen led the way in using the same platforms that banned their inquisitors to vilify the conspiracy theorists and crackpots. Lipkin yearned for ways to choke them.
Part of Jeremy’s PR skill-set is getting that social media is - a real thing - which needs to be monitored/influenced - or it will run-you-the-fuck-over. Holmes reports: Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, certainly was very vocal in that.
For a long while the cohort was successful. With full-backing from the world’s media/social media giants - except Joe Rogan - he’s a media giant - has become one - coz he’s been a voice of sanity as our Celebrity Scientists played to the dark-urges of humans. Lords of the Flies - using their power to ostracize/demonize those who question them. Joe Rogan asks questions. To get to the truth. So radical! But it connects with a lot of people. Must be human curiosity.
For starters - THE Science is an oxymoron. There’s no THE science - well there is - we’re living with it - but real science doesn’t work like that. There’s information gathered, analysed, reported - to support a (not THE) hypothesis - amongst a range of other hypotheses. The spirit of science - is to say: here’s what i’ve come up with - here’s my reasoning - prove me wrong - I welcome the scrutiny.
Not: yell at/ban anyone asking questions. What’s up with that?
The media kept telling us: (T)he vast majority of scientists who have studied the virus agree that it evolved naturally (and are tired of fighting) *conspiracy theories that have *plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic (such as) .. the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory.
That tells me that the vast majority of scientists@universities/institutions are: complicit.
Nature even drops the vast majority qualifier saying:
Scientists believe - those two words sum up everything about how we got into this mess.
Scientists - not some scientists, not most, but scientists - as a species - believing - same as a religion - then vilifying anyone questioning their beliefs.
This from: Nature’s Editors. THE Science’s official mouthpiece
On one hand Nature waffles on about the sovereign rightness of their empirical agnosticism - on the other hand:
What is it you believe again?
that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus
Not sure if that’s simply bad English or a cunningly left back-door exit for later. Humans are animals. See - we never ruled that out - we were right all along!
Even some scientists who questioned the origin of Covid fell into this trap:
The only way of proving the true origin is through science - everyone else needs to stand back - let us take up the fight - don’t muddy our waters with your unscientific speculations. (I’m paraphrasing someone here)
Aitologically speaking, I lean towards the conclusion that that’s the same wrong-headed empiricist-thinking that caused Covid.
I know they mean well - scientific input is valuable - I’m not anti-science - but scientists - or anyone - segregating the truth into their closed-society domain … please don’t do that - it does more harm than good.
The fatal flaw with Empiricism is believing you are right. That only you have the solution.
Then insisting everyone else believes you - unquestioningly.
That’s a guaranteed recipe for getting it wrong. It’s also a dangerous breeding ground for tyrannical thought - as we’ve seen.
Scientists - for or against: Present your info - argue your case - but don’t ask us to believe you!
Science is part of the answer - empiricism has something to contribute - but be humble enough to recognize that it was this same culture that caused then covered-up Covid - with it’s consequential War-on-Freedom. It cannot be brushed over - it needs fundamental deconstruction/reform.
Empiricists are great at looking at trees - in microscopic detail - not noted for transcending that mindset - to see the forest. The Shakespearean tragedy is they think they can - but they can’t. Then the fallout from that hubris.
That’s where we need our discarded humanities thinkers* back in the band - involved in decisions that require forest-seeing skills. Or normal people with common sense will do fine.
(*Australia’s government recently raised fees for History and Philosophy students by 113% - to discourage them - because, they believe, such knowledge does not have economic value in today’s society.)
Why science is not the answer to a problem caused by science:
Premise: Modern Science (Empiricism), by its own definition, involves an immense amount of minutiae.
Including unrevealed bits of minutiae, which, in turn, provide wiggle room for counter arguments/misinformation tactics - that the mainstream science community will exploit - like their lives depend on it - which they do.
For example: Worobey - Oxford chums from the 90’s with Farrar, Gao, Eddie, Rambaut - pops up for a rear-guard action with his Dec Patient-Zero silliness splashed across all media like it was the last nail-in-the-coffin of the lab-leakers. The goal is not to present truth - it’s, paradoxically, purely about muddying the waters. It works great - if you do it long enough. People still think SARS came from civets.
Then there’s the matter of the holy grail for some of the lab-leak-scientists. If you’re going the scientific hard-data route, you’re racing to find what, exactly?
An exact genetic match on a WIV database - which was taken offline.
All on-site samples have been destroyed.
That shit’s not gonna magically reappear. The smoking gun has long since gone up in smoke.
If that’s your definition of proof you’re playing into the hands of those who seek to cover it up - they can forever say it remains unresolved.
Fighting the might of the science community on their own turf/terms, is to take on an empire that has never lost a match when it comes to dragging origins into a muddled memory.
same as SARS
same as MERS
same as HIV
same as Ebola-14 outbreak - Constantine Nana wrote a book on it in 2016 - it’s persuasive.)
same as Anthrax
Meanwhile the poor-old normal person is told to wait outside patiently for an answer that’s never coming - not before we’re engulfed by the next world drama, anyway.
To borrow Andersen/Rambaut/Holmes’s phrase, there’s a:
* *much simpler and more cost-effective way
*
deduction -
*
Scientists will say: Yes, but it’s not real science.
Sure it is. It’s logic - which is philosophy - which is the original science. Done properly, there’s no wiggle-room.
Here’s an easy example:
(*some discussions have been released after this was written - they do incriminate the Feb 1 Teleconferencers big-time - exactly as hypothesized - but still no interrogation)
So simple, right? Don’t have to be a scientist to understand it - or prosecute it.
But the real beauty is:
* it’s simple to *disprove
No decades-long investigation presided over by a closed-society. All you gotta do is unredact the emails relating to the Feb 1 Teleconference - we could know the origin - either way - natural or not - as soon as this afternoon.
These are not private sextings from sports stars that the media Hungergames for/publishes - they’re the scientific decision-making details of public-funded experts who helmed the world’s response to Covid. The biggest global catastrophe since WW2. That war was fought to stop fascism. The Covid Response amounts to a war on freedom. We have a right to know the root cause.
Ohr, no, we couldn’t do that because …you know … uhmm … these are complicated matters…uhm.. I could explain it …but …you know … you wouldn’t understand.
We’re not asking you to explain - we’re asking you to unredact the science discussion.
Uhm… we are committed to being as transparent as we can be, in principle - but people need to understand that’s not the way it works in the science world. (not real quote, except for Farrar’s as transparent as we can be)
Exactly, that’s why we need the scientists to dial down their domination tendencies - let logic have a go. Really, it’s not complicated.
The best indicator of future performance is past performance …
Of the above listed pathogens - the only one where the origin is certain is Anthrax
In 2001 The Science culture was so off-the-rails that it harboured/caused the Anthrax Terrorist Attack. You’d think that’d have to be a red-flag moment for this mad-scientist gone maddist culture, right? Reason to investigate/defuse/reform - before it does more damage…!
Under Fauci (and David Franz, now of EcoHealth, ex-USAMRIID Commander - and Ivins’s old boss), the exact opposite happened.
The FBI’s 7-year cover-up/bungle of an investigation led by Mueller, finally announced Bruce Ivins as the terrorist who perpetrated it. Ivins had committed suicide prior to the announcement. He was described as a weirdo loner - acting alone. (Note: sorry about the formatting - we’re working through it - the following quote is not meant be so big for extra significance or anything)
Indeed. Ivins was a product of - a vibrant participator in* - *the science community - working at Fort Detrick - in that shady, yet large, well-funded space where bio-science meets covert military-world. Sound familiar?
The point is: what American bio-defense scientist Bruce Ivins (and his accomplices) wanted - when he(/they) launched the attack, he(/they) got.
More bio-defense funding - Check - wildest dreams amount
War in the Middle East - Check - Iraq War-2 to stop anthrax-WMD!
More vaccines for soldiers fighting those wars - Check: Ivins, and others at Fort Detrick, were working on an anthrax vaccine. (The lucrative contract for Ivins’s additive went to Coley Pharmaceutical Group, which was acquired by Pfizer in 2007.)
Anthony S. Fauci was* in-the-thick-of-it* - pleading for a Cheney brain-child bio-state-grab called Bioshield before congress.
Instead of being investigated/reformed, Scientific Expertism grew to become a powerful deep-state force that shall not be questioned. Anyone who does have questions - see rule 1. All the while doing riskier and riskier GoF experiments at bio-defense/weapons labs around the world undercover of the night.
It’s worth noting that anthrax vaccines are suspected of causing Gulf War Illness due to the harmful anthrax protective antigen PA63. Ivins himself blamed his chronic blood disorder on self-trialling his own product.
But the most enduring impact of the Anthrax attacks was the mega-funded power surge injected into bio-scientists. It is this unchecked empowerment that is responsible for our present-day predicament. That’s my premise. My argument lives or dies by that.
Among the Ringleaders of this silent big-bang take-over, Farrar/Fauci/Franz/Collins/(Drosten), the ultimate goal is a One Health Planet - the last frontier in our brave new bio-world.
But FFFC didn’t drop-out-of-the-sky and become leaders - they are - like Ivins - from - by - for - the science culture. They can not achieve their goals without it. It takes the village.
Reliable sign a culture has gone bad: Bullies become dominant. Use that power to define the culture - especially the devils - which are to be crushed.
Otherwise known as tyranny.
STEM the Bullying: An empirical investigation of abusive supervision in academic science:
Among the 1904 survey participants .. (a)n overwhelming proportion reported either experiencing (84%) or witnessing (59%) abusive supervision, or both (49%). Scores on the Tepper abusive supervision scale (PDF) were higher than other organizational benchmarks.
Tried/failed searching Tepper abusive supervision organizational benchmark rankings to see how higher…? Do our nice, balanced scientists, always taking the politics out - do they hold the world record for abusive, unstable behaviour?
STEM the Bullying: Participants reported .. being threatened about having their positions cancelled (51.9%), having the bully encourage others to mistreat them (53.7%) and having their funding taken away or receiving threats of the same (43.4%).
If your doctorate is your life’s passion - that’s a worry. Whaddya gonna do? Buck the system - become a Uber driver? (Good for you if you do - it’s a hard road though) Or play along?
While a majority of perpetrators were male, they were proportionately no more likely to abuse than females.
Nice to know that academics are equal-opportunity abusers.
Perpetrators were more likely from the highest-ranked institutions.
The bigger the institution, the bigger the bullies. Makes sense - sociologically - or normally - speaking.
Nature: *Six current and former employees are calling for the *Wellcome Sanger Institute — one of the world’s top genomic centres — to reopen an investigation that last week cleared its management of bullying, gender discrimination and misuse of grant money. The six were not made aware of Sanger’s response to their allegations .. (and) question the transparency of the investigatory process. “Thus, we could not correct inaccuracies nor could we comment when the Full Report was critical of us.”
Serena Nik-Zainal, whistleblower: For this serious investigation, GRLboard have appointed ONE investigator (a Wellcome lawyer - and) .. did not bother to interview all the complainants. ..Terrifying lack of clarity in how conclusion reached. (my brackets)
Wellcome: *We are *satisfied that a thorough and appropriate investigation has been carried out.
I’m sure you are. Same way you were satisfied that a thorough and appropriate investigation has been carried out by WHO into Covid’s origin.
It’s the oldest trick in the political book. When an allegation is made, reluctantly conduct an investigation - then dismiss the allegation without revealing details of the investigation.
Wellcome, under Farrar, epitomizes this sad state of the science culture:
rife with bullying by those in power
dismissive of complaints
terrifying lack of transparency
This same science community culture has activated to suppress investigations into a lab-leak. MO? Bully/financially ostracize dissenters. Like we normally do. Works for the CCP. It’s a proven system of government.
The trouble with conspiracy theories has always been:
How are you going to get so many people to collaborate and stay silent?
But if you control the culture, then that takes care of all those moving parts.
Cultural members are invested - financially/socially/psychologically. Act in the best interests of the hive - which doubles as their own best interests. The mind makes-up the rest. To the point where you vehemently believe it. In the full religious sense of the word.
As Huxley and Orwell warned, many of the members enjoy the pile-on - it appeals to a certain base human instinct.
For others, it gradually becomes too problematic to oppose. There’s your livelihood/your family to consider. The sensible decision is
- comply -
abrogate the sins to the system. We know it’s corrupt - but whadya gonna do?
That leaves you with:
a brazen culture of monied-up One Health Bullies - unfettered by accountability or the truth - making decisions to change the world.
Nature: *But Peter Hotez, a vaccine advocate and *scientist *at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, *warns that scientists on their own aren’t equipped to counter the sentiments (The War on Sentiment?) fueled by far-right extremists, politicians and media organizations.
Rubbish. In the crucial nascent window of Covid’s spread - when it could still have been contained - all mainstream-media organizations/99% of politicians broadcast/enforced every whim of far-right extremist scientists* - then executed the blank/block/vilify move against anyone even raising the proposition that hey - there was a GoF-lab right next door to where the outbreak occurred - should we maybe investigate that?
*scientists cooking up lies with the CCP then cracking down on the truth is not left-wing - it’s far-right extremism - the kind that organ harvests semi-conscious prisoners of conscience.
Nature/Hotez: I’m on a zillion Zoom calls with scientists to fine-tune our messages …
The fact that you’re on a zillion Zoom calls fine tuning your messaging (not the truth mind you - messaging) proves:
you’re a powerful tech-savvy network.
Good for you. I’m not.
but these are messages in a bottle in the Atlantic Ocean
Zillions of ‘em.
Nature/Hotez:* Until there is an *appetite among government agencies to take down an anti-science empire — to say it endangers the public — it won’t be heard.
What are you talking about? - we’re not an empire - we’re a rag-tag team of vilified netizens. You’re not though. You’re the we-the-people-paid elites - with enormous power.
The appetite among government agencies for centralized data-control/surveillance & collaboration with the one-science empire - wasn’t that already ravenous?
How much further you planning to ramp that up?
Is Wellcome Trust a private security organization shaping the world in their own image?
Wellcome website: Wellcome is an independent global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health through research. Although the way we deliver our mission has evolved since 1936, science has always been at the heart of it.
Wellcome: Henry Wellcome became a wealthy and prominent figure in the growth of the modern pharmaceutical industry. .. After his death in 1936 .. the company became the property of the newly formed Wellcome Trust.
Farrar (16:00): Sir Henry Wellcome (who formed, then sold out of GlaxoSmithKline) left his whole endowment to us uhhmm .. he was one of the first people to put tea infusions into tablets - that’s how the money was made and in the late 1980’s a visionary leader of Wellcome sold the company and created the independent foundation..
Independent visionaries. Sounds nice - same as Bill&Melinda - but what does it really mean? Two closely aligned, super rich foundations controlling the purse strings on a corrupt/broken funding system - that has engineered - with no constraints - the bio-state we now find ourselves living in. They have become a law unto themselves - which in turn has become a law unto us.
Wellcome: Successful products included antivirals such as AZT, the first drug approved to treat HIV.
(Watched Dallas Buyers Club again recently - don’t know how accurate it is, but AZT was portrayed as an expensive poison (when administered at the original high-doses ) being pushed by corrupt big-Pharma/FDA - which was simultaneously denying patients other remedies. Didn’t realize AZT was a Wellcome Trust product, though. Some eerie similarities to today - worth a second viewing.)
Farrar (16:10): (S)o we are in this incredibly privileged position of having our own endowment which is about 26 - ahr - 27 billion pounds .. and ahr we are independent, we have our own governing board, ahr, so we have none of the constraints that we appreciate you have here (at NIH).
Independent global bio-power - incredibly privileged - no constraints.
Wellcome: Our investment portfolio gives us the independence to support such transformative work as the sequencing and understanding of the human genome, research that established front-line drugs for malaria, and Wellcome Collection, our free venue for the incurably curious that explores medicine, life and art. www.wellcome.ac.uk.
Wellcome Trust is political - we know that coz Farrar told us - as Director of Wellcome he regularly uses the bio-tech speaking circuit to rally the troops. Behind the scenes he chairs: an informal group called the Heads of International Research Organizations.
But is it an unofficial, independent international intelligence gathering organization with a global security agenda?
Has it crossed over into the realm of private spy-force? I’m about to argue it has.
Some will be thinking: Well, he had a couple of good points in the beginning - but now he’s totally lost-the-plot. I’m out!
For those remaining: let’s take a look anyway.
In an open and transparent investigation, the Golden Rule is: there are no rules about what can and can’t be examined.
Wellcome Trust:
In many Asian, African, and South American countries, Wellcome (and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) would represent the main foreign organizations on the ground. (Interestingly, its in those continents, where, according to Wellcome’s own poll (PDF, p53), that trust in scientists is rock-bottom with only 1 in 10 people saying they have a high trust. The low vax-rate in Africa, well under 10% in most countries, is not due to western hoarding, as we’re led to believe - it’s because Africans simply don’t trust scientists - due to previous, bad experiences.)
If you are a spy, you don’t rock up to a country - start spying - you need a cover-occupation. Additionally, modern-day spying doesn’t even require traditional spies as such - it’s all about data control. Theoretically at least, Wellcome would provide a perfect vehicle for intelligence gathering in terms of its international penetration - its massive resources, it’s data-gathering/centralization platform.
As we saw with Anthrax (and long before that) scientists have become accustomed to pulling up chairs at the National Security Councils of the world.
If our current crop of Covid-scientists are not involved in Secret Security, then why are their FOI emails redacted?
dack-the-redactions
Hand over all the scientific correspondence for that matter: Farrar’s, Collins’s, Daszak’s, Lipkin’s, Nature’s, Lancet’s etc - all of those scientists involved in concocting the original Covid narration. The Feb 1 meeting was a live teleconference - it’ll be there in the cloud somewhere. Let’s take a look at that!
Why not? You keep telling us it’s science - not politics - so what are you afraid of? The truth?
Why doesn’t the taxpayer have a right to know the premise behind the actions decided on in that Feb 1 meeting - that changed the world.
If not now when?
Wellcome Oct 1, 2015: Baroness Manningham-Buller is the first woman to chair the Wellcome Trust’s Board of Governors, and was appointed following an open recruitment process. She was previously a Governor of the Wellcome Trust.
2015 - that’s two years after Sir Jeremy, took over as Director. Sir Jeremy was, of course, appointed by the board of Governors, on which Baroness Eliza was an influential figure. Hopefully the open recruitment process was more open than your inquiry into bullying under yours & Manningham-Buller’s watch, Jeremy? Or similar? Forget about that - so what made you go for the Baroness?
Wellcome: Between 2002 and 2007, Eliza Manningham-Buller was Director-General of the UK Security Service (MI5), and led the service through significant change.
Oh.
Baroness Manningham-Buller: I am excited by the prospect of working even more closely with the Trust’s director, Jeremy Farrar .. to plan an even more ambitious future for our work.
I bet you are. It’s this *even more ambitious future for *our work that worries me. What work exactly is that? A power-grab in the MOU ring-a-ring-a-rosie - pocket full of posies - achoo - achoo - we all fall down?
Stocktake: The head of MI5 chairing Wellcome Trust, which specializes in AI/Genomics and bio-data collection/surveillance in conjunction with the CCP - directed by Sir Jeremy Farrar - the chief architect of the Covid Conspiracy.
Must be a crazy coincidence - surely - who else they got running Wellcome?
Courtesy Wellcome website
Of Paul and I fame from the Feb 1 Teleconference. At first i thought he was Jeremy’s personal secretary - they seemed joined at the hip - but he’s more than that - he’s COO at Wellcome - appointed Sep 2019.
His last gig was CEO of Hakluyt - a shadowy private intelligence gathering organization for the rich and powerful described as a retirement home for ex-MI6 - that was mixed up in the Bo Xilai scandal (before Paul’s time as CEO). I haven’t looked into Bo Xilai - but he was a then-contender with Xi Jinping. Xi expelled him. The person murdered - Neil Heywood - was a Hakluyt employee.
Before Hakluyt, Paul was a public-servant strategist for the Department of PM & Cabinet, Australia - under Julia Gillard.
Canberra Insider (AFR) described his ascendancy as an: important and unusually last-minute appointment.
Paul Schreier, has a very different background as a partner with McKinsey & Co …
(a private One-Everything consultancy for high-enders - which agreed in Feb 2021 to pay nearly $600 million to settle investigations into its role in helping “turbocharge” opioid sales. (So coughed 600m for a cover-up - Paul was there at the time the turbocharging was committed - Purdue was McKinsey’s long-term client.)
… and previously as a warfare officer in the Royal Navy.
So a globalist military war planner - mixed up in a company pushing oxycontin, who later worked for a private spy company. Cool.
On joining PM&C in March 2010, he was seconded to the Black review of Defence accountability for three months and returned to run the infrastructure division. Outgoing PM&C secretary Terry Moran said Schreier’s career had had a strong international flavour. “He has served governments and other public-sector organisations in the United Kingdom, Europe, south-east Asia and Africa.”
Served doing what? A warfare officer running infrastructure for the One-Everything movement in the United Kingdom, Europe, south-east Asia and Africa?
Vietnam is south-east Asia. Jeremy was there (and the UK) for 17 years. Did you hook up back then?
Schreier’s specialty is warfare strategy and intelligence gathering - with cover-up skills honed at McKinsey/Purdue Pharma - no wonder he was a key figure in the Feb 1 Teleconference. At first i thought he was a bit-player. He’s not. He’s:
Paul & I.
Interestingly, Julia Gillard took over from Baroness Manningham-Buller at Wellcome, announced 14 May 2020, which is a tricky period. Luckily Paul was already there to facilitate their re-unification on the big-stage.
Have i got this right? At the time Covid broke, we have:
Wellcome Chair: Manningham-Buller, ex-head of MI5
Wellcome COO: Paul Schreier, warfare planner, ex-CEO of Hakluyt (a retirement home for ex-MI6)
Wellcome Director: Sir Jeremy Farrar, One-Everything evangelist, member of the murky Oxford/Chinese Academy of Science organization specializing in genomics surveillance, co-ordinator of the Feb 1 Teleconference.
That’s a weird leadership triumvirate for what’s supposed to be a health charity.
That premise, that Wellcome functions as an unofficial, private security organization, beholden to God-knows-who - is looking less fanciful by the minute.
All we need now at Wellcome is someone from China with deep connections to CCP leadership so we can coordinate our global strategy …
Wellcome announced in Feb 2021 that Leung would join the Wellcome Board of Governors.
Gabriel Leung: Once the world finally exits the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ll be faced with many questions about what we want the future to look like. .. I’m excited to be joining Wellcome to help bring that about.
Good point Gabriel. I want the future to look like a place where those that potentially killed millions and withdrew all our freedoms are held accountable. Where reforms are made to avert a headlong rush into a One-Everything world run by private-totalitarian AI-Bio Tsars. I’m excited to be joining Formosahut Book Stack (started by Dan who i met in Dulan) to help bring that about.
Formosahut is not as powerful as Wellcome Trust i admit. It’s where the smart money isn’t. Meanwhile Wellcome’s endowment was increasing by a billion a year before Covid - God knows what it’s like now. How’s our endowment going dan? Not that good, right?
We’ll have to patiently wait & see who wins in the end. Actually it’s not about winning - it’s about not having things taken away.
If you’re protesting a corruptly approved resort on a much-loved/public/pristine beach for example - you’re not trying to gain anything. Your aim is to maintain the beach - the vibe.
It’s not: - I also demand you pay me a high-salary for life you fuckers!
Versus:
Own/Wreck the beach - pay me a high-salary for life … seriously.
Wellcome Trust/One Health, disguised as wokeness, is that winner own/wreck/control model - on a global scale.
Permanently change the landscape - to win more money/power.
As Leung reiterates: Wellcome is in-the-business-of global-future-shaping - for the common good.
Prior to his Wellcome appointment, Leung served as a top Covid advisor to Carrie Lam (HK) - he still does. To understand the significance of that role we must remember that at the time Covid broke, the Hong Kong protest was at its height. Massive protests every weekend - supported by a large majority of Hong Kongers.
The CCP-leadership was faced with two options:
1. Honour the One-country Two-systems agreement
2. A Tiananmen Square style massacre to restore control
Then along came Covid.
So conveniently. Allowed the CCP-directed HK authorities to institute snap lockdowns. That measure alone crushed the protest without firing a shot - very Sun Tzu.
Gabriel Leung was Tzu’s architect-in-chief of this incredibly effective protest killer in Hong Kong. There are points in history where things could go either way - Hong Kong went the Covid way.
That’s a skill-set Wellcome knows is valuable - on a global scale.
Farrar/Koopmans/Nature: (I)t will be a challenge to persuade countries to invest in a new surveillance system, for example, before its general effectiveness has been demonstrated at a country level.
Before Covid, before Carrie Lam, Leung was Director of the Office of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, under Donald Tsang, who was found guilty of taking a US$431000 bribe in the form of renovations to his penthouse. Did, Leung, the Director of Tsang’s office, have no idea what was going on? If he didn’t twig, as the Director - does that look bad on your CV - or good?
Leung is also founder and deputy editor-in-chief for China CDC Weekly. That puts him in close-contact with George Gao, China’s CDC head, who is close Oxford chums with Jeremy Farrar (and Holmes, Rambaut, McMichael, Worobey). Leung himself has long had a close relationship with Oxford as editor (PDF) of its Journal of Public Health.
Considering Leung is a power-elite from a totalitarian regime, he delivers a curious speech at University of Sydney (a notorious pro-CCP uni) where he extols a book titled How Democracy Ends. It’s the theme of his speech.
Gabriel Leung: While technocracy may have reigned supreme .. Democracy Ends chronicl(es) .. the denigration of expertise and celebration of ignorance; in other words, the wholesale repudiation of technocracy.
Ironically Leung (and the book’s author) equates technocracy reigning supreme with Democracy. Anyone questioning this global power-grab (which caused Covid - evaporated all our basic freedoms - then ran the cover-up of the millenium) is ignorant/anti-democratic!
In Farrar-esque tones, Leung talks of the battle against these questioning forces and urges the scientific community to come together to fight the good fight.
Not hard to see how he got drafted into Wellcome Trust - politically he aligns perfectly with Farrar’s vision of a privately-run technocratic bio-state.
If that wasn’t enough, he is also Director of the Laboratory of Data Discovery HK Science and Technology Park (2020-) and Vice President and Censor in Public Health Medicine, HK. Censorship being an essential blunt instrument in the War on Freedom - one that’s been employed with devastating effect.
Finally, Leung is a WHO advisor - barely needs mentioning - of course he would be. Hard to think of a person-of-interest in this who isn’t.
There are two types of Hong Kongers - those heroically risking their lives to fight for basic human freedoms - and those in power fighting to eradicate them.
As a top advisor to Chief Executive Lam in the consequent crushing of the HK protest, the Director of the Office of ex-Chief Executive Tsang (a corrupt criminal), and Technocracy Censorship expert - Gabriel is the latter.
Of course Nature deserves its own book - one day - meanwhile …
Wellcome (on Springer’s website):
… Springer is the publisher of choice for your work and will assist you in complying with your funder’s policy in support of open and unrestricted access to research literature. (their huge lettering)
Great. Can we get open and unrestricted access to the the Wellcome emails and texts discussing Covid? Only the scientific ones.
The cost of having your journal article and book published open access is covered by the Wellcome Trust. Please see the Wellcome Trust Authors’ Guide for details .. and choose .. within the Open Choice program.
Dan is writing a book, The Refuser, set in 2084 - he’d love that language - you’re free to choose within the Open Choice Program - or kiss your career goodbye. It’s your choice …
You will be given that option as soon as your article has been accepted for publication after peer review, and we will handle the administrative process.
We will handle everything - basically. A translational service onto the world’s most prestigious science platform. Or not.
The whole funding/peer review circus is corrupt & broken. It (potentially) caused Covid.
Springer Nature’s collaboration with Wellcome is at the core of it.
A closer look at the secret world of bio-security
First principle of Covid:
no evidence - is evidence
It’s evidence that the truth is being concealed in the well-founded hope that in 10 years time no-one will know or care about the origin. People will vaguely remember something about bats & pangolin - or was it civets? - there was some kind of conspiracy theorist questioning wasn’t there? - but then we moved on - in the end it was never really settled.
That’s a pity - coz tracing the origin is important. Even better it’s:
Despite what we’re told. Dozens of people know for sure already. The only reason we don’t know is coz those that do know are withholding the information.
For example: the total redaction of what was discussed at the Feb 1 Teleconference (PDF, p3133) - where the fate of the world was decided by public-funded health officials - is a classic. Everyone on that call knows what happened. We could likely solve the origin of Covid simply by unredacting correspondence of those scientists who decreed the world’s response to the outbreak. Why are their discussions - science discussions about a subject that affected us all - so secretive?
Ron Fouchier, the world’s top GoF-shot, wrote a 2-page bullet point review. Can we see that one?
Note: I’ve redacted another full page of redactions from Ron’s notes. You didn’t miss much. Except we did.
Or this one from Farrar?
From : Jeremy Farrar
Sent : Sunday, February 2, 2020 4 :48 AM
Below: Farrar to Feb 1 Teleconferencers.
zaterdag 1 februari 2020 om 21:59
Yeah - no. Not reasonable, Jeremy. Making secret plans for the world over the weekend about covering-up Covid - not telling what they were?
We know you had thoughts and suggestions on this complex issue - you organized/chaired the discussion - let’s see them.
Why not?
Due to keeping us secure on the planet.
Here’s a thought and suggestion:
#dack-the-redactions
We have to keep remembering - for us it’s a big mystery - but it’s not for the actors.
Edit Jan 12, 2022: Finally, although the full transcripts have not been released, Republican members of Congress, Xavier Becerra, who has seen the redacted material has released excerpts. It’s exactly as we thought: all Prox O authors thought it was was engineered:
From Bob [Garry]:
Before I left the office for the ball, I aligned nCoV with the 96% bat CoV sequenced at WIV. Except for the RBD the S proteins are
essentially identical at the amino acid level – well all but the perfect insertion of 12 nucleotides that adds the furin site. S2 is over its
whole length essentially identical. I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus or one very
similar to it to nCoV where you insert exactly 4 amino acids 12 nucleotide that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain
this function – that and you don’t change any other amino acid in S2? I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.
Do the alignment of the spikes at the amino acid level – its stunning. Of course, in the
lab it would be easy to generate the perfect 12 base insert that you wanted. Another scenario is that the progenitor of nCoV was
a bat virus with the perfect furin cleavage site generated over3
evolutionary times. In this scenario RaTG13 the WIV virus was
generated by a perfect deletion of 12 nucleotides while essentially
not changing any other S2 amino acid. Even more implausible IMO.
That is the big if.
You were doing gain of function research you would NOT use an
existing close of SARS or MERSv. These viruses are already human
pathogens. What you would do is close a bat virus th[at] had not yet
emerged. Maybe then pass it in human cells for a while to lo ck in
the RBS, then you reclone and put in the mutations you are
interested – one of the first a polybasic cleavage site.4
So if our scientist actors are acting like members of a top-secret spy organization, what do we know about the politics of your typical National Security Organization?
Not much. Except it exists.
A good question is one where people don’t want to give a straight answer. The stock answer, same as THE scientists’, is: no politics - we are
- above politics -
But it’s this aboveness that worries me.
Exhibit A: Mueller’s bungling 7-year investigation/cover-up of Anthrax’s origin which succeeded in protecting scientist culture gone mad instead of exposing it.
Exhibit B: The non-decision by the US’s top Intelligence agencies re Covid’s origin - where they told us the origin may never be found - though we’re not allowed to see the evidence they looked at - or didn’t. We don’t even know if they’ve grilled the chief suspects.
The security organizations are singing from the same songsheet from which WHO investigators Daszak and Dwyer delivered their command performances. Time is on our side. Keep obfuscating - years will pass - by then we’ll be onto The Next Disease X - we’ll be home-free.
Below is an exercise in stating the obvious - but so was saying Covid may have leaked from the right-next-door lab GoFFing-out deadly bat viruses - or saying world-leading expert/WHO investigator Pete Dazza Daszak was dodgy - so it’s worth setting down:
A secret security organization:
This last one is the Catch-22 politics at the heart of every National Security organization:
We are empowered to act covertly to secure the common-good.
FAQ: But who defines the common good?
This section has been closed due to the common good. Thank you.
Which is where we get to the no evidence is evidence part.
Here’s my conspiracy theory:
(a) Wellcome Trust - &/+ Bill&Melinda - tick all the above boxes (only difference is they have a private endowment) thereby qualifying as Private Security/Scio-tech Organizations. You could throw EcoHealth Alliance in there as well, they are private scio-security players, though 90% government funded. Also not nearly in the same league as Wellcome/Bill&Melinda financially.
(b) Undercover of the night, there has been a political alignment between private security operations such as Wellcome - and normal ones - including those of China and the US. They are all focused on Global Security to together fight anti-globalism - which they view as a common enemy. If you’re an enemy of my enemy …
(c) The above parties conspired to cover-up the origin of Covid. Not easy to do - unless you happen to be at the helm of the Science/Security/One-Everything Alliance - 20 years on from its 911/Anthrax mega-growth spurt to the frightening mass of unaccountable power/money it is today…
(d) Motive: save Globalization from the crippling blowback that would result from the truth: One Health scientists, our saviours, caused Covid.
(e) Covid was then used - to permanently entrench a bio-state stranglehold. Due to Covid. Yes, it’s a circular argument. But somehow fooled the world. (Well not, somehow, with the blanket support of mainstream media.)
We know our scientists are mixed up in security operations - but whose side are they on exactly?
David Franz, ex-Commander USAMRIID: There was a sense that we, the military and civilian employees, were in this together; we were a team, a family. We not only survived, but also prospered.
Sure did. All of our Celebrity Scientists are cases-in-point. They:
That’s clear. The tricky part is working out:
Which side are you on exactly?
You’d think it’d be straight-forward - western scientists working with western intelligence - Chinese with Chinese security.
But here’s the thing about Covid - somehow
- it all got mixed up -
My argument is that the leaders of the science community came to realize they were all on the same page as the leaders of security organizations - regardless of their nationality. The glue, is centralized power wielded from a position of non-accountability.
We’ve already covered the Wellcome Trust leadership:
Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller
They are all dual-purpose Science/Secret Security functionaries running a major Research Foundation. But there’s plenty more where they came from. This chapter reviews several more Celebrity Scientists who fit the bill.
Wally Lipkin Bruce Ivins
Prox O author (political narrative writing to cover-up lab-exit/protect CCP)
Celebrity Scientist salesman for no-lab-leak (political/CCP protection)
Eco-evangelist (political)
Bioterrorism scaremonger (political narration/security)
Co-chair of the Steering Committee of the National neurology biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (security)
Director of the Northeast Biodefense Center (NIH/NIAID) - created/funded as direct response to Anthrax/911 (US military/security)
WHO Collaborating Center on Diagnostics, Surveillance and Immunotherapeutics (vaccines) (One-Everything political)
Double gold-medal winner in China for services rendered (China political)
Friends with CCP ministers (18:30) (China political)
Friends with George Gao (28:00) (one-everything/China political)
Consultant for CCP Ministry of Science and Technology (China military/security)
I first heard about this outbreak on the 15th Dec from Lu Jia-hai at Sun Yat-sen .. who runs a large one-health (17:00) one the earliest dates made public by western scientists for awareness - Eddie might pip him. (security)
Went to China on fact-finding mission (Jan 29-Feb 4) where he met CCP-officials (including Li Kechiang - who gave him a medal) (political)
Wrote a report of those findings for the CCP - not for the US. (China/security)
Pumps GIDEON One Health projects funded by the CCP every chance I get (security/political)
Praises CCP Central Govt as transparent - says we should have followed their lead (political) (19:05)
If Covid was an engineered virus, it’s likely Baric had a hand in it. He is the world’s leading expert
Science , Jan 11, 2020: Ralph Baric, a coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .. immediately .. reverse-engineer(ed) a live virus from the sequence .. to develop antibody tests and to start experiments in animal models. “If you want to have a strong public health response, you have to do this quickly,” says Baric, who leads one of the few labs in the world that can re-create coronaviruses just from their sequences. (Bureaucratic hurdles would make it difficult for China to ship the actual virus quickly to other countries, he says.) (Science’s brackets)
SARS/MERS/GoF expert/activist. Argued in Feb, 2018 that biosafety .. over-reach (GoF regulation) prevents countermeasure development that could limit or prevent future pandemics. (scio-politics)
SARS study in 2006 was funded by US military (military)
In 2015 he collaborated with Shi on GoF - one of the western scientists who helped export GoF technology to China. (Chinese military)
One of the first to jump ship from WIV (May 2021) (rat cunning)
Helped develop Remdesivir (did they think this would be a magic bullet? the antidote?)
Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance - the Bat Cave of Calamity:
Daszak was on the radar early coz he put himself on it - pumping the press as hard as Lipkin - with similar CCP COI’s - reveling in the Celebrity Scientist persona. Not dissimilar to Bruce Ivins with Anthrax (who was an FBI advisor on the case) - he may also share a similar fate. Those investigating Covid knew Daszak was a goldmine of dodginess - the shock was when he was appointed as a WHO investigator - the sheer fuck-you-ness of that. We don’t care if you know - we’re gonna steamroll on…
In the spirit of transitioning from bioterrorism to fear of nature - Daszak was a passionate narrator.
Daszak: *It’s a little bit like if you listen to phone calls from Afghanistan. To find the terrorists, you have to listen to *all *the phone calls. Only when you’ve heard the phone call do you then go in and find out who these people are and *disrupt those networks.
It’s hard to know if he’s talking about the common cold or conspiracy theorists.
Eco-evangelist: Rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, intensive farming, mining and infrastructure development, as well as the exploitation of wild species have created a ‘perfect storm’ for the spillover of diseases from wildlife to people.
Here’s what i think of that:
Rampant GoF experimentation, uncontrolled expansion of bio-science funding, intensive research, unaccountablility, and infrastructure development, as well as the exploitation of wild species in cruel lab experiments have created a ‘perfect storm’ for the spillover of diseases from scientists to people.
My take on Daszak: a talentless scientist from Bangor University with self-aggrandizing gab-skills - that worked for a long time on gullible idiots and those higher-ups who saw him as as a maverick soldier who served their purposes - long enough to float EcoHealth Alliance on the One Health sea - long enough to sink the world in itsOne-Everything black-hole.
Pretty sure it was @billybostickson sent me the link - Raul Diego reported back in July 2020 (when conspiracy theorist vilification was all-the-rage, Daszak was a mega-platformed darling of the press):
In 2017, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $6.5 million contract to a company called EcoHealth Alliance, Inc to carry out research on “the risk of bat-borne zoonotic disease emergence in Western Asia”. Journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva uncovered the Pentagon project, which focused on “genetic studies on coronaviruses in 5,000 bats”. (Good uncovering by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva. Well done Raul for writing-it-up/spreading the word whilst crediting her.)
New York Post: (B)y far the largest donor to EcoHealth was the Department of Defense, which has given Daszak more than $40 million since 2014, almost all of it through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for the stated purpose of “combating weapons of mass destruction.”
How ironic. EcoHealth was the weapon of mass destruction - potentially.
A former EcoHealth employee (Andrew Huff - Billy Bostickson has compiled info here) says Daszak disclosed some years ago that he had been “approached by the CIA in late 2015.” (my brackets)
Andrew Huff has made himself a character in all this. The name Huff is a good one. He does Huff n Puff - enjoys his insider celebrity status on Twitter. You could dismiss him - or you could think - well, we’d pegged EcoHealth as dodgy - if he wasn’t Better Call Saulish he wouldn’t be authentic.
The employee believed that the CIA helped steer large chunks of federal funding to EcoHealth’s projects in parts of the world like China where they needed “human intelligence related to biological threats and capabilities. Many of these places are hard to collect good intelligence … Also, [the Department of Defense] was actively always asking for data, models, and analysis.”
The imputation is Daszak was spying for the CIA at WIV - to somehow stop bio-terrorism.
Then came out swinging for the CCP when Covid broke. How could that be?
Unless: their little bio-weapons spy games blew up in their faces. One way or another, the virus borne of that collaboration exited the building. Now whaddya gonna do?
Suddenly it made sense for intelligence agencies to be on the same side. For the sake of saving/increasing/entrenching The New World Order - which is the same as the Old World Order - but more United - for the more common good.
I don’t know. How would you explain working for the CIA against the CCP one minute - praising/lying-to-protect the CCP the next?
Then the public-money-funded sham-investigations conducted by WHO and all other world intelligence agencies? Mostly not even a sham investigation. Nothing. In Australia they have a Royal Commission investigation at the drop of a hat, but nothing looking into the greatest humanity-shaping event of our time?
Let me guess: Now’s not the right time to talk about it. Let’s wait until we’ve all moved on.
Good News for Bad Actors: A lot of culpable scientist/intelligence folk are gonna walk away from their involvement in the Covid Atrocity unscathed.
The Bad News: Not so fast Pete.
It’s not that you’re a scape-goat exactly, you’ve earned it, but you will be made-out as the rogue scientist acting alone to carry as much blame as possible - same as Bruce Ivins. So we can learn from past missteps and become even better leaders going forward as we continue to deal with emerging bio-eventualities.
The Good Bad News: There will be a reluctance to investigate/charge you - due to you knowing too much - though maybe you’ll get the Bruce Ivins treatment - hounded to death without being charged - to avoid details coming out.
Go down swinging Pete - spill the beans on all of those fuckers now while you can!
I don’t even know if escape-goating to China is an option anymore - you may well get arrested there at the airport. In fact, that would solve a lot of problems for both sides.
File image of Shi Zhengli at a wet market. Credit: YouTube/Getty
Pronounced Sheauhr (with your mouth stretched as wide as it’ll go) - not She - in case anyone cares - which they won’t coz she will always be Bat Lady - the original(?) - or Batwoman - which arose shortly after - pop culture will tell us in time …
On May 26 i posted a section on Shi on Formosahut as part of the Prox O thread. I still like the opening:
The first ever Wuhan lab conspiracy theorist was Shi Zheng-li, aka Batwoman, a senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. According to an interview published in Scientific American, when she first got the call from WIV, she was at a seminar in Shanghai. It was the Director of the lab: “Drop whatever you are doing and deal with this now.” .. Her first thoughts were: “Could they have come from our lab?”
Since then she’s ascended to the pantheon of Covid Conspirators. This page is a quick look at her security profile.
Nature: Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science. Cool. Knew there was big-science but yeah, for Covid, the correct term is Mega-Science.
Eco-evangelist - says Covid was punishing the human race for keeping uncivilised living habits (political)
Celebrity Scientist: Before Covid, Shi was already famous in China - had her Bat Lady nickname - bestowed by the Chinese media. Also well known amongst the higher-ups in the bio-science community - had collabed with a bunch of them continuously since SARS.
As Garry says:
Garry, 13:42: Obviously Dr Shi there - the Wuhan Institute of Virology - which was built basically because of SARS 1 - you know there were people there you know Dr Shi obviously - very leading prominent virologist way back to the first SARS and 1350 and that big lab there in Wuhan - the institute of virology - that was built basically because of SARS-1
Hmm, so all the suss collaborating EcoHealth/CIA - that shit cuts both ways.
Bat Lady was intersecting with bio-defense-foreigners like there was no tomorrow - Columbia/NIH/Wellcome/CSIRO/Duke/UC - the biggest players there are.
Let’s not forget, GoF technology is a western invention/speciality - desirable know-how for a country that’s already been the victim of bio-warfare. Shi was the leading expert in China looking to expand her mastery with the dark arts - at a time when milking foreigners for tech was an established CCP plan in full swing.
Her conduit between these worlds was CSIRO veteran Linfa Wang, who was: Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007-) (!!!) (We’ll get to Wang next - he’s a keeper)
Her published papers show collabs with Daszak (UK/US) Epstein (US EHA) in conjunction with Gary Crameri, Wang Linfa (Aus/CSIRO)) ref ref Baric ref in particular. (Side note: It’s curious CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) is right up there with EcoHealth in terms of Proximal Originess to SARS-CoV-2 - but flies under the radar. You’re on my radar - haven’t got there yet - won’t in this thread - you deserve a new one.)
The question is - in all these international bio-security games - who was playing who? Or were/are they really One Health, One-Team, One-World?
In the great unfinished novel, the ending has Lipkin, Daszak and Baric arrested in China, imprisoned awaiting trial as US/UK spies - charged with causing the Covid Atrocity. Carrying the can for both Sino/Western sides. Sorry guys.
Meanwhile, Shi was playing them all the whole time. The last scene is a descending drone cam across wild seas, a rugged uninhabited coastline - to a high-tech laboratory built into the side of the mountain - finding Bat Lady - in her cave …
A round-up of motives
The accusations are staggering:
Celebrity scientist-actors conspired to cause &/or cover up a lab-exit resulting in the deaths of millions - the evaporation of basic freedoms.
If they were ever were charged, then convicted, according to the rule of law, some would be facing the death penalty, depending on where they were tried. Except for the first one to grab immunity, the rest would be jailed without parole. Their reputations, of course, destroyed.
So if you’re going to make accusations - you better not do it lightly. I take that shit seriously - there’s too much at stake - I am aware of the consequences for those involved. I ask similarly:
Are those wanting to sweep it under the carpet - move on - are they aware of the grave consequences of doing that?
Anyway, this is an auditing of what we’ve got - to see how it stacks-up - as well as an attempt to understand events from the perspective of the actors - what on earth could possibly drive them to:
concoct a massive web of lies - thereby betraying the core principles of science?
Oneness Idealism: One Health and Totalitarianism love/need data centralization - with themselves as overlords. This has spawned a seamless collaboration between the CCP/western scientists/security organizations. They rely on the One-Everything movement for control. If it got out that Covid was caused by this alliance - that would be disastrous for those parties involved. Global Oneness? Run by you mob? Forget about it.
Genomic surveillance: Farrar is referred to by his colleagues as:
shrewd .. massively driven .. a visionary … not afraid to take risks … an activist.
He has seen the future of disruptive unbelievable changes - knows it’s coming a lot faster than the plebs realize. The next 25 years. It’s already happening.
Central to this visionaryism is AI multiplied by:
the Genomics Revolution/Precision Medicine.
Farrar knows this is best achieved through the One Health approach in collaboration with the CCP - and security organizations - like-minded genomics/data enthusiasts - on-the-same-page - not slowed down by ethics or public questioning red tape. Beyond the reaches of accountability. Farrar is aware of the dark side but believes the good outweighs the bad.
On one hand: Covid is a God-send for genomic surveillance. On the other, if Covid was the result of cutting-edge science gone wrong …?
GoF Research: The fuel that stokes genomics. Farrar is keenly aware of the public’s ethics misgivings. If it became known that Covid was caused by GoF experiments, that’s not gonna be good. It’s significant that Fouchier, the world’s leading Gof practitioner/advocate, was one of those invited to the Feb 1 teleconference. NIH also becomes culpable for funding/fueling EcoHealth GoF work.
Money: Apart from the gazillions on offer for those at the helm of the genomics revolution, the bulk of researchers rely on public-funding. Increasingly, China has become a source of funding for western scientists/universities - the 1000 Talents Program being but one such initiative. The surge in O/S Chinese students going straight into the salaries of Not-For-Profit higher-ups (what else you gonna do with it - it’s not for profit?) All that would be disrupted (some disruptions are more equal than others).
The Common-good: Farrar is an idealist. Well-paid but it’s not the money that motivates him. He, like every powerful person from Hitler to Xi Jinping, like all the One Health fanatics, believe they are doing it for the common-good - to make the world a better place. Once you’ve convinced yourself of this, you are liberated from the normal constraints of morality.
The Great Unmooring
You’re now free to lie, cheat, cover-up - even mass-murder. It’s all justified in the name of a higher-truth.
Politics: Far from taking the politics out, our protagonists are radical political activists. (In a twilight-zone inversion - DRASTIC - the R which means radical (which can also mean root of) - are the sensible ones - go figure…)
The science community, with Farrar/Fauci/Fouchier/Collins/Drosten leading the way, in conjunction with security organizations (private & govt), Big-Everything, and the CCP (totalitarianism) -
that’s one mother-fucking-powerful force you guys have amassed there
Confronted by growing distrust of this untouchable globalism - the concept - as well its key institutions (WHO, UN, The World Bank) - it was time to take action. The form of defense in this situation is attack. Especially when you’re packing the firepower above.
If not now - when? If not us - who?
Trump
The threat to globalism which had been simmering in the populace, on the internet, was then embodied by Brexit. Then the elections of Trump, Bolsonaro, Johnson. It was a nightmare unfolding.
Farrar’s NIH speech, months before Covid broke, was a call-to-political-arms. The hatred for those fanning the anti-globalization zeitgeist was intense - it produced an emotional/obsessive reaction - focused on Trump. They could not stop thinking about him. To beat him, it was resolved, we need to get our hands dirty. (Or put up a candidate with charisma - unfortunately we don’t have any - coz we Onenessed charisma to death.)
We also need allies:
If the CCP is an enemy of anti-globalists, it’s a friend of ours.
Whatever it takes to win this crucial battle in the history of humanity - for humanity - it’s our duty to do it. If it gets out that scientists/CCP caused Covid - that will hand him 4 more years to wreak destruction - for sure.
That can not/will not be allowed to happen.
This helps to explain your average academic’s involvement. They hated Trump with a passion - that caused them to behave irrationally.
Power: An oldie but a goodie. Being the head of the One Health movement is a powerful Master of the Universe position. Unencumbered by election cycles, FFC have been entrenched at the top for decades. Power is addictive - it’s a bushfire - creates its own energy/weather - the mind will tell you to do whatever it takes to grow it. You will make mistakes along the way - don’t worry about it - So thank you for your leadership and please: do never never step down from it.
Legacy: Be the ones who go down in history (by making history go down on you). When FFC/CCP talk about Oneness, sailing the rising tide of AI/genomics, you’ll notice it’s with themselves at the helm - determining the characteristics of that Oneness in their brave new world.
Sir Jeremy, you will go down in history - maybe not the way you dreamt of.
United Front Work Department: This CCP organization, documented by Clive Hamilton, Richard Noske, and Mareike Ohlberg, has spent decades infiltrating democratic countries - actually all kinds. The simple aim is to influence the influencers. A key target in this movement is the academic community. Whereas politicians come and go, academics, like CPP officials, remain constant.
Non-Chinese academics(/influencers) are won over by a mixture of flattery, collaboration, money, power, the odd honey-trap. As Hamilton notes, the flattery aspect should not be under-emphasized. In a climate where scientists feel under threat from a populist anti-science movement, they are prone to the reassurance of a warm embrace from a system of government that understands them.
Especially when it comes to One Health ambitions.
The co-ordination whereby - the experts were saying the CCP was open and transparent - the CCP was saying listen to the experts: was not a coincidence.
It is evidence of the scale of the collaboration/corruption that exists - one that was activated worldwide upon the advent of Covid - to cover-up it’s origin.
The exposure of Covid as a lab-exit would simultaneously expose this United Front network that goes all the way to the top. Can’t have that. This helps explain why so many scientists were happy to play the useful idiot role. Not involved at the top but using their positions at universities to promulgate the cover-up.
Conclusion:
When all your visions, your privileged power positions are facing destruction, and you’ve got the power to stop it by perpetrating a lie … it would be harder to prove why not?
It’s possible a lab worker was infected by a bat virus whilst collecting/handling bat samples - but i doubt it.
Why? Coz we’ve never seen a coronavirus this contagious and deadly before.
It’s important to remember that a coronavirus is the common-cold. The key word is common - but relatively harmless (flu being the one you have to worry about). The common cold has been with humans/animals since our time here began. We pass it around to each other. That may even be a good thing.
But then, with the funding splurge that followed Anthrax, scientists increasingly began playing around with viruses at bio-defense/weapons labs to enhance their lethality ( to protect us - firstly against all the bio-terrorists that were lurking in every cave - when that petered out on the algorithm as a fear-factor, bio-scientists pivoted - went all natural suddenly - to protect us against potential future outbreaks … )
Lo ‘n behold, 20 years ago, SARS, the first ever deadly cold in the history of humans, appeared. The origin of which has never been adequately explained - due to a well-documented cover-up. Even the greatest CCP-apologist-scientists such as Farrar, Daszak, Lipkin, Andersen, Holmes, Koopmans, Tedros, Dwyer refer to how much more open and transparent the CCP is this time - compared to SARS-1.
Basically saying: if you think Covid’s origin is murky - get a load of SARS.
An interesting exercise would be to put the increase in study/funding of bioweapons/defense pathogens on a graph - then put it next to the increase in the emergence of deadly pathogens. Guessing you’re gonna see an uncanny similarity in trajectories.
Although it’s possible that it’s all another coincidence, the most plausible explanation for how the common-cold made this astonishing transformation from harmless to killing millions is: human engineering (The oft-used Celebrity Scientists’ claim that climate-change caused it - doesn’t make sense.)
Worryingly, if it was engineered, can we put this genie back in the bottle?
Potentially, these are GoF leaps-to-lethality that the virus never would have made of its own accord
- if only it’d been left alone -
Let’s not rule it out until we have all the info.
I lean towards an accidental lab-exit. Using the same lab-origin reasoning whereby - a super-contagious coronavirus emerges right-next-door to a lab engineering super-contagious coronaviruses - if i was going to deliberately release it, i wouldn’t do it right-next-door to the same lab that engineered it.
I’d do it in Hong Kong. Or New York. Or Xinjiang. Anywhere but Wuhan. (Not to say it wasn’t being groomed as a weapon. As we know, all top-security biodefense/weapons labs are dual purpose.) As such, i’ve been reluctant to canvass the deliberate scenario due to a muddying-of-the-waters effect.
But…, if we’ve learned anything along the journey it’s this:
Don’t dismiss anything.
A proper investigation requires all options be considered.
Here are some nagging points why it may have been deliberate. Some of them overlap with the cover-up motives.
Revenge/Trump: The United Front Work Department/One-everything network would have felt threatened by the pivot-away from China under the Trump administration, which in turn, rose to power on the back of a growing anti-globalization movement - inspired by Clinton’s charisma-less globalization agenda.
Trump was an egotist who wrong-footed a long line of opponents through the simple tactic of upsetting the apple-cart.
Actions attract attention/reactions. Create their own swirling universe. The media became obsessed with the guy - totally the wrong tactic. On one side Fox was warily praising him - on the other - even more time was devoted to attacking him. Either way he had everyone focused on him - they fell into his black-hole - exactly as he wanted. (note: both sides sold a lot of papers)
By reacting, rather than thinking originally, the neo-lib/United Front influencers backed themselves into irrational and indefensible positions based on: He said this - i’m going to take the opposite position! - forget about whether it’s right or wrong.
Trapped inside that funk, burning with hatred, did the release of a bio-weapon offer a way to fight back? It did work, if that was the goal. Your arch enemy - cruising towards a second term - removed from office - due to Covid.
Thucydides Trap: The CCP may have decided war was inevitable (Thucydides Trap). It could well be - though i’m more inclined to think the last thing the One-Everything MOU’s want is world war between superpowers - they’re more into uniting for War on the Individual. Still, the depth of righteous injustice that many Chinese feel with regard to their historical mistreatment by the West and Japan should not be underestimated.
The bully forgets quicker than the bullied.
China was the victim of bio-weapons during WW2 at the hands of the Japanese. Most Chinese also believe the US employed bio-warfare (p24) during the Korean War. If you have determined war is inevitable, then this, potentially, provides justification for getting on the front foot by releasing Covid - whilst adhering to Sun Tzu’s invisible war play book.
Hong Kong: Pre-Covid, the HK protest was at its zenith. Beijing was faced with the prospect of compromise (actually, just stick to the One-country Two-systems deal) - or another Tiananmen Square. Covid succeeded in crushing the protest without a shot being fired. The Art of War is not merely some pop-Sino buzz-phrase - it’s a core, long-march tactic - also embodied by the United Front Work Department’s surround-the-city-with-the-country influence.
Surveillance/War on Freedom: The Great Leap Forward into the Brave New World of totalitarianism - wasn’t started by Covid - but it did supply a tremendous booster.
Most importantly - it provided
justification
If you wanted a magic formula to take you over the top, Covid was the real thing.
The beauty of Covid is that the CCP’s totalitarian system of government can be demonstrated as the best way to counter it - lockdowns, surveillance, erosion of all freedoms, vaccine dependence on the state, total centralization.
As Farrar/Koopmans/Nature noted: It will be a challenge to persuade countries to invest in a new surveillance system, for example, before its general effectiveness has been demonstrated at a country level.
The worldwide rise of the CCP system of government as the primary model for tackling Covid, led CCP-scholar, Li Yi, to brag: We’re pushing America out of existence.
That leaves:
One-Everything
The Military Games: Haven’t researched this, but Daily Mail journalists raised it. Most likely provides evidence of the virus (and the cover-up) emerging earlier than reported, but if you wanted a global-seeding event for a new bio-weapon, then the Wuhan Military Games, held in Oct 2019, fits the bill. May tempt you to release it in Wuhan - especially if it was a rogue action by an activist scientist. Reports have emerged of athletes having
COVID-like symptoms and describ(ing) the city as a ‘ghost town’
- over a month before Covid emerged.
Weird Advice: This is the one i can’t shake. The Feb 1-2 teleconferences launched some bizarre advice - with devastating consequences. Now known as the Seven Deadly Things, the participants:
Now this could be explained by the pivot - whereby they knew it was a lab-leak but determined that the spread of Covid could be made to work in their favour - but - it also supports a deliberate release. (Hard to think of other reasons - only stupidity left.) If you’ve gone to the trouble of engineering and releasing a virus, you’re gonna wanna make sure that shit takes hold.
Eco-evangelism: Most/(All?) our protagonists are eco-evangelists, best exemplified by Daszak and his Eco(evangelist)Health Alliance. Shi Zhengli also famously said “(t)he novel 2019 coronavirus is nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilised living habits.”
Lipkin Feb 10, 2020: The latest data suggest that an endangered mammal, the pangolin, may be the source of the new coronavirus. My colleagues and I have been working to shut down wildlife markets for decades. Perhaps the silver lining in this outbreak is that we finally get the traction needed to achieve this goal.
Did they decide the best way to bring the world to its senses was through the release of Covid? Those core characters, Daszak, Baric, Shi, Lipkin - throw in co-collaborator Wang Lin-fa (Aus) (he doesn’t get the same attention as Bat Lady and Batman - but he deserves it - he’s in the thick of everything) - they are all eco-idealist zealots. If you’ve convinced yourself that the world is hurtling towards self-destruction with climate change (which it may well be), then you might plausibly reason that the release of a moderately deadly virus is the best way to save the world. They definitely had the capability. For a motivated cohort it would be quite easy to orchestrate a lab-exit.
If it was an eco-activist pre-emptive strike, on some levels it has worked . There was a crackdown on wet markets/wildlife trade for a short time, while plane/car travel has plummeted.
But consumption hasn’t. It’s going gangbusters.
As for the (erroneous) Covid link to deforestation pedalled by the above …? Not so successful with that goal. The demand for building materials has gone through the roof - due to Funny Monetary Theory - due to Covid.
Overpopulation: If you’re a big-picture thinker, you might see the thinning of the herd as a good thing - reducing pressure on dwindling resources. Covid is almost purpose-built for this - scything down the frail - virtually harmless to most others. With great power comes the burden of making the hard decisions - for the common good.
Anthrax: The best indicator of future behaviour is past behaviour. The Mueller led FBI-investigation/cover-up job dragged out for 7-years. Was then announced that Bruce Ivins, a Fort Detrick scientist/FBI expert adviser, did it. Coz he wanted to promote anthrax vaccines - and more money for science. Victims believe others were involved. If mad-scientists deliberately released pathogens then for personal gain - why not this time?
Vaccines: As with Anthrax, where vaccine promotion was the core motivation, the big winners with Covid are those involved in the vaccine industry. Bruce Ivins had two patents for an anthrax vaccine additive - after the release, Coley Pharmaceuticals was awarded $12 mil to develop the additives. In 2007, Coley was acquired by Pfizer Corp. Similarly, Emergent Bio-solutions was another big winner with Anthrax - securing the contract to manufacture anthrax vaccines for Gulf War soldiers - popping up again with AZ during Covid. These are powerful unscrupulous entities that stand to gain immense power/money from a pandemic.
As Fauci said when pleading for Cheney’s Bioshield brainchild before congress:
The events of September 11, and the subsequent anthrax attacks have changed, forever, how the biomedical community responds to emerging threats. The accelerated development of effective countermeasures against terrorism requires a new research paradigm.
We are now on a wartime footing and are compelled to modify the way we do business. Biotech firms are our industrial partners - they are essential to countermeasure development. But they want some assurances if they are successful that there’ll be a market for their product.
Did they get that assurance? Was a market created to catapult the vaccine industry into a position of world dominance? Remember, without an outbreak, they’re irrelevant. And it’s been done before with devastating success - with Anthrax. In any investigation you must look at past history. When you do, that tells you that the vaccine industry is an entity-of-interest.
Conclusion:
Either way EcoHealth/WIV are at the core of the Covid Atrocity - but i still favour the accidental-exit - old-fashioned human error - though it would be naive to think Covid wasn’t created as an offensive weapon. Some of the above can be explained by turning a negative into a positive as previously outlined - some of it can’t. As with everything in this book, there are people who know the exact answer - but have inexplicably not been interrogated in anything remotely resembling a rigorous investigation. We know they’ve lied through their teeth - they’re fair game. Hook ’em up to the lie detectors, hammer them with hard questions, offer immunity to whoever comes clean first - we could solve this mystery in no time.
The fact that there’s a refusal to do that shows that the people who’s job it is to discover the truth - don’t want us to know the truth.
How to deal with the perps
Crime: potentially killed millions/departicilized human freedoms
Punishment: I’m not vindictive. It’s a negative black-hole energy. Dead against mob vilification whoever it’s aimed at. Even you guys. If it comes to that, i’ll be there urging mercy on your behalf. Let’s hope our voices are not censored this time.
But for the sake of reform, at least:
That goes for all of those who caused/covered-up the Covid Atrocity.
That roll-call will include:
90% of the science community: either complicit or stupid - both need fixing
Heads of security organizations who: non-investigated the crime of the millennium when the answer was staring them in the face.
The media: If FFC/CCP’s audacious One-Everything plan comes off, then at the Hunger Games acceptance speech ceremony - with slides on a giant screen/music depicting heroic moments in the victory of true believers - somewhere in that speech he’ll say:
And i’d like to give a big warm thank you to the media tycoons - without whom none of this would have been possible.
Yeah-no. Stop it - give back the money - truth and reconciliation
You don’t even have to go to jail - or whatever the punishment is in various countries for committing/aiding & abetting an atrocity.
If you accept the above, you’re free to go. Deal?
Oh, we couldn’t do that.
Why not?
It would denigrate all the leaders involved, that’s virtually everyone!
It’s a lot, yeah, it’s a cultural problem
*You’re talking about *the science, media, corporations, cyber-gazillionaires, political party machines, security organizations - you want the leaders of all that lot to come forward - be held accountable? To lose their jobs?!
Yes. Of course
(scoffs) Impossible. You’re not living in the real world. How would the planet even run if you took away it’s global leaders? It’s a ridiculous idea. We’re too big to fail. It would mean:
- the collapse of society -
I disagree. The Animal bio-Farm-state you’ve unfurled upon us - due to a disease you caused, is
- the collapse of society -
The above is the only way to fix the foundations. Get back to
- what’s true - or not -
as scary as that sounds
by dulan drift, Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 08:09 (9 hours, 33 minutes ago) @ dulan drift
The same way everything-you-need-to-know about existence is in the Adam & Eve myth (and other creation myths) - everything we need to know about you, Sir Jeremy, is in your choice of Brutus quote from Julius Caesar - which coincidentally - was the most famous Conspiracy of all time:
We at the height are ready to decline (due to anti-globalist/scientist sentiment)
There is a tide in the affairs of men
which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune (Covid is the flood - vaccines/total control are the fortunes)
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
is bound in shallows and in miseries
(Poor Sir Jeremy - stuck in a bloody Oxford migraine clinic)
On such a full sea are we now afloat (Covid)
And we must take the current (of public opinion - manipulated by Covid - before people see through it) when it serves (the purpose of justifying a One-Everything surveillance state)
or lose our ventures
So what did you choose?
If Shakespeare was alive today - he’d be writing about you.
He’d see all the ingredients he loved: ambition - ability - idealism - fame - marred by arrogance/over-reach - causing mis-guidedness - deals with the darkside - a mis-reading of the signs - resulting in:
(Where ‘all the world’s your stage?’)
Turns out you were a bit of a thespian yourself back at school:
Churcher’s College Annual Report: (Despite obstacles) what eventually appeared on stage was a most satisfying production of “Ross” by Terence Rattigan.
“Ross” looks into the mind of Aircraftman Ross (alias Lawrence of Arabia; it is in this identity that he mostly appears) and shows him to have been a man who overestimates his own strength of mind and, as a result, was crushed by his conscience.
Cool. You weren’t the lead actor but you played your part.
Jeremy Farrar was convincing* as the* Captain who was somewhat out of his depth.
Yeah, i’m convinced. There’s something in that conflicted/Captain dynamic that attracts you. The visionary - who’s failing is a blindspot to the knowable consequences of his actions.
We all make that mistake. The information was there - but we didn’t weight it right.
Humans, we’re on a spectrum. Whatever you feel - i feel - vice versa. It’s a matter of extent - it’s where on the spectrum?
The tragedy of Brutus is that he broke the golden rule of the Senate - no violence in the Senate. Even Julius Caesar had abided by it - until death we did part. It set off a chain-of-events that achieved the opposite of what Brutus had hoped for.
The difference between you and Brutus though is that while Brutus believed he was stabbing Julius Caesar to save democracy - you knifed democracy to save Totalitarianism. The Empire Strikes Back.
But you both did what you thought was right. I’m sure of that.
The problem with killing off democracy, Jeremy, is humanity has only invented two systems of government - well one actually - the first one - totalitarianism - was our default position. Philosophers - aka conspiracy theorists in today’s parlance - invented democracy.
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar deals with the loss of democracy.
It took another 1500 years to get it back. With AI coming at us (dumb-arse humans) fast, we ain’t got 1500 years as a primary-intelligence life-force on earth. We lose our freedoms now - they’re gone forever.
Sir Jeremy, you will go down in history as: an immortal - Captain of the Covid Conspiracy.
The good news: you still have a chance to make a positive, lasting impact on humanity. You only need to choose the right Box: A, B, or C?
Box A: Mass-murdering atrocity villain that history will never forgive.
Box B: We get away with it - steamroll on - crush the opposition - that’s why they call it power. Fuck Democracy! Totalitarianism Rules! Yeah! (See why you went for that in the beginning - but looking shakier n shakier - in essence - the same as Box A)
Box C: Come clean.
If not now, when…? If not us, whom…?
This mad head-long rush to One-Everything - to save us - is wrong. It’s dangerous. The answer is the opposite - it’s our differences that will save us. Tell people you now know that from the inside - you messed up - you thought it was for the best - realised it wasn’t. You can still help right the ship of humanity on this rising tide of opportunity.
Then history will afford you that dynamic space - that Brutus inhabits - between good intentions and disastrous results.
A person aware enough to be torn by conscience at least.
Redemption is real. It’s why Jesus was so popular. Society vilifies/condemns - he was offering a different understanding/resolution. You feel like you’re in this irredeemable, collapsing quicksand - you are - but there is a way out.
You won’t be a hero of course - that job’s taken by @billybosticson - but you could still be a Brutus - a textbook cautionary tale for future generations. There’s honour in that - it’s a kinda pantheon - if you repent.
But my advice: Don’t wait too long - the tide in the affairs of men is changing.