The world continues to cope with the health crisis caused by the global spread of the "Wuhan virus", and non-stop hysterical media coverage has whipped the public into a panic. Based on flawed models and inflated projections of catastrophe, the governments rushed to implement harsh containment measures. Economic activity has now been forcibly shut down worldwide, with devastating effects far more serious than the disease itself.

But what is the true origin of this plague? Politicians are now questioning China's cover-up of the virus outbreak and initial spread, but the establishment is still downplaying evidence that the virus itself may have been engineered in a research laboratory.

"The US State Department received two cables from US Embassy officials in 2018 warning of inadequate safety at a Wuhan, China biolab conducting 'risky studies' on bat coronaviruses... A US delegation led by Jamison Fouss, the consul general in Wuhan...took the unusual step of repeatedly visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)... The cables warned about safety and management weaknesses at the WIV lab...also warning that the lab’s work on bat coronaviruses and their 'potential' human transmission represented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic...

-- Zero Hedge article

"A leaked dossier compiled by Western intelligence agencies concludes that China lied and deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence during the crucial early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, and notes that Chinese researchers have been experimenting with - and creating - deadly bat coronaviruses... A key theme of the dossier is that China's negligence and lies resulted in the "endangerment of other countries," as the CCP silenced or 'disappeared' doctors who spoke out... China also imposed internal travel bans while condemning the rest of the world for wanting to do the same...

The dossier slams China's constant lies about the virus, noting that "despite evidence of human-to-human transmission from early December, PRC authorities deny it until January 20," adding "the World Health Organisation does the same."... Furthermore, evidence was destroyed, and China refused to provide live samples to international scientists working on a vaccine... The dossier also references work done by the [Chinese] team to synthesise SARS-like coronaviruses, to analyse whether they could be transmissible from bats to other mammals [including humans]."

-- Zero Hedge article, with timeline

More importantly, who stands to gain from the manufactured "crisis response"? Consider the history of government sponsored pandemic simulations from "Dark Winter" to the recent "Event 201" hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, sponsored by the Bill Gates Foundation and the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF):

"The June 2001 exercise known as 'Dark Winter' also predicted many aspects of government pandemic response that would later re-emerge in last October’s simulation 'Event 201' , which predicted a global pandemic caused by a novel Coronavirus just months before the Covid-19 outbreak... Key leaders of both Event 201 and Crimson Contagion [in 2019], not only have deep and longstanding ties to U.S. Intelligence and the U.S. Department of Defense, they were all previously involved in that same June 2001 exercise, Dark Winter...

One of those individuals, Robert Kadlec, was recently put in charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) entire Covid-19 response efforts... Kadlec, [a military medical officer and] veteran of the George W. Bush administration...led the Trump administration’s 2019 “Crimson Contagion” exercises, which simulated a crippling pandemic influenza outbreak in the U.S. that had first originated in China.

The concept, design and script of the Dark Winter simulation were created by Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center along with Randy Larsen and Mark DeMier of ANSER... Dick Cheney watched the video of the entire Dark Winter exercise on September 20, 2001 [and] took the contents of Dark Winter to the National Security Council the very next day."

-- Whitney Webb article

Note that Cheney, Larsen, O'Toole and Kadlec are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, flagship of the globalist "liberal world order". The CFR and its many affiliates, including the WEF and the UN, have planned for such "pandemics" for decades. The response activity may seem chaotic and counter-productive to outsiders, but watch and see who benefits.

As in the previous panic of 2008, the notorious BlackRock, a CFR sponsor and one of the world's largest asset management firms, has again been hired to "assist" the Fed in doling out billions in "emergency bailout" funds to the banks and other corporations. BlackRock chairman Laurence Fink is a CFR director, and Fed chairman Jerome Powell is a CFR member. Powell is also a former partner at the Carlyle Group, whose billionaire founder David Rubenstein is the current CFR chairman.

In 2009, during the global H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic, the CFR held a seminar on "Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy". One of the sessions was led by CFR chairman Robert Rubin. A key participant was Michael Osterholm, a CFR member and director of the Center for Infectious Disease (CIDRAP) who is regularly featured as a "trusted expert" by the corporate media. Note the deceptive all-or-nothing choice presented:

"If an influenza pandemic struck today, borders would close, the global economy would shut down, international vaccine supplies and health-care systems would be overwhelmed, and panic would reign." -- Michael Osterholm, "Preparing for the Next Pandemic", CFR journal Foreign Affairs, Aug 2005

"We can suppress this [coronavirus] and probably keep infections to a minimal [sic], but it will mean totally shutting down society, much as we saw in China. The other side of the coin is that we just let it go and overwhelm our health-care systems with potentially millions of deaths in the U.S."

-- Michael Osterholm, "COVID-19 Outbreak Update", CFR, Mar 2020

Following the 2009 "crisis", the Simpsons had an episode with a scary "cat flu" propaganda campaign manufactured by corporate media executives to "put Americans back where they belong: in dark rooms, glued to their televisions, too terrified to skip the commercials”, complete with fear-inducing projections from the "Center for Disease Disinformation" and a push for mass vaccination. Does this sound familiar?

After decades of such "pandemic preparation" exercises, it is well-known that air travel is a major vector for spreading infectious disease from one region to another. And yet, in late January even after Wuhan was already in lockdown, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement advising against any travel or trade restriction which might “have the effect of increasing fear and stigma.” This policy continued for another six weeks until the WHO finally declared a "global pandemic" on March 11. What was the purpose of encouraging unrestricted travel from China to the rest of the world?

The Bill Gates Foundation, promoter of population control and vaccine deployment, is a major financial sponsor of the WHO. The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) developed by the Gates Foundation and their minions, including the WHO and NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, called for a worldwide “Decade of Vaccines” despite the devastating side effects caused by these products, including the increased risk of other infections.

In addition to their generous financial contrbutions to friendly politicians, vaccine makers Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline are also corporate sponsors of the CFR. Congress has granted these companies exemption from any liability caused by vaccine damage. Who benefits from this?

"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's fingerprints can be seen on every major global health initiative of the past two decades. And beyond the flashy, billion-dollar global partnerships, the Foundation is behind hundreds of smaller country and region-specific grants...Even the World Health Organization (WHO) itself is largely reliant on funds from the Gates Foundation, the organization's second-largest donor behind the United States government... WHO Director-General Tedros served as chair of the Gates-founded 'Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria', and sat on the board of the Gates-founded 'Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance'...

The Imperial College [London] Covid-19 Research Team issued a report on March 16th that predicted up to 500,000 deaths in the UK and 2.2 million deaths in the US unless strict government measures were put in place... This year alone, the Gates Foundation has already given $79 million to Imperial College... In 2017, the Foundation announced a $279 million investment into the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the Univ of Washington to expand its work collecting health data and creating models."

-- James Corbett article

Were the grossly distorted statistical models from Imperial College and IHME promoted by Fauci and the other "experts" initially projecting millions of deaths part of a well-rehearsed psychological warfare campaign? These models have since been discredited and finally "revised" to reflect reality -- too late for thousands of destroyed businesses and the millions who lost their jobs due to the panic shutdown of the economy.

Why did Surgeon General Adams and other "experts" at CDC and WHO tell the public that face masks are not effective, despite the fact that they can reduce droplet transmission of infectious pathogens, especially in crowded and enclosed places? This non-scientific and inconsistent public policy has since been completely reversed -- too late for the tens of thousands of coronavirus victims in NYC.

Why did the "liberal" governors, including Cuomo of New York and Whitmer of Michigan, send known coronavirus patients from hospitals back to elder care facilities, despite overwhelming evidence that the elderly have the greatest risk? Nearly half of all US coronavirus deaths have occurred among the residents in those facilities.

Why do the "liberal" mayors of the major cities continue to allow bums to live on the streets, defecating and spreading disease even inside the public transportation system? Such dangerous and inept policy decisions are not acceptable.

Even more onerous and intolerable are the policies that pretend to benefit the majority while advancing the dystopian plan for a "one world government" under the control of arrogant, self-serving oligarchs. No matter how this virus outbreak actually originated, these plotters "never let a crisis go to waste". Quoting from the Simpsons episode again: “We do have standards, this can’t be a made-up disease. The only moral thing to do is to release a deadly virus to the general public”.

UPDATE: James Corbett has produced a hard-hitting documentary on billionaire Bill Gates, his influence on the global "health care" system, and his obsession with vaccines and population control, which everyone should watch. See "Who is Bill Gates?"