{"id":116997,"date":"2022-05-22T10:07:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=116997"},"modified":"2022-05-22T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:07:34","slug":"monkeypox-was-a-table-top-simulation-only-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=116997","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/shutterstock_1546640954-800x469-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-116998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/shutterstock_1546640954-800x469-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/shutterstock_1546640954-800x469-1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/shutterstock_1546640954-800x469-1-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BY MICHAEL SENGER<br \/>\nThe Brownstone Institute<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world\u2019s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May 2022\u2014just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nti.org\/analysis\/articles\/strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats\/\">held a simulation<\/a>\u00a0of a \u201cglobal pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox\u201d beginning in mid-May 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8199\" src=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mpox.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mpox.png 596w, https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mpox-309x400.png 309w\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"771\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Monkeypox was first identified in 1958, but there\u2019s never been a global Monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa until now\u2014in the exact week of the exact month predicted by the biosecurity folks in their pandemic simulation. Take these guys to Vegas!<\/p>\n<p>Ed Yong, who\u2019s penned dozens of hysterical articles on Covid for The Atlantic including such gems as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/09\/covid-19-long-haulers-pandemic-future\/619941\/\">COVID-19 Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2021\/11\/health-care-workers-long-covid-are-being-dismissed\/620801\/\">Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2022\/03\/covid-us-death-rate\/626972\/\">How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2022\/04\/us-1-million-covid-death-rate-grief\/629537\/\">The Final Pandemic Betrayal<\/a>,\u00a0is hot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2022\/05\/monkeypox-outbreak-covid-pandemic\/629920\/\">on the scene<\/a>\u00a0of the new Monkeypox outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Feigl-Ding is also all over this.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2FMichaelPSenger&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NlbnNpdGl2ZV9tZWRpYV9pbnRlcnN0aXRpYWxfMTM5NjMiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiaW50ZXJzdGl0aWFsIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd190d2VldF9yZXN1bHRfbWlncmF0aW9uXzEzOTc5Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InR3ZWV0X3Jlc3VsdCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1527065615818711040&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbrownstone.org%2Farticles%2Fmonkeypox-was-a-table-top-simulation-only-last-year%2F&amp;sessionId=933e64c4e58af320ac13bc92b5d7946a5a783b72&amp;siteScreenName=brownstoneinst&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=c8fe9736dd6fb%3A1649830956492&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1527065615818711040\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Epidemiologists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferNuzzo\/status\/1527331824690552839\">Jennifer Nuzzo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillHanage\/status\/1527103677860917251\">Bill Hanage<\/a>\u00a0are on the scene\u2014but still no word from them as to whether they see anything strange about the first-ever global Monkeypox outbreak occurring in mid-May 2022, a year after they acted as advisers on an international biosecurity simulation of a global Monkeypox outbreak occurring in mid-May 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8201\" src=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/expertcontributors-.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/expertcontributors-.png 580w, https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/expertcontributors--316x400.png 316w\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"734\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The US Government is hot on the scene with an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/05\/19\/monkeypox-vaccine-purchase-2022-us-government\/\">order<\/a>\u00a0of 13 million Monkeypox vaccine doses from Bavarian Nordic.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO is on the scene.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8203\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WHOpox.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WHOpox.webp 768w, https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WHOpox-400x94.webp 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"180\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The global Monkeypox outbreak\u2014occurring on the exact timeline predicted by a biosecurity simulation of a global Monkeypox outbreak a year prior\u2014bears a striking resemblance to the outbreak of COVID-19 just months after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/\">Event 201<\/a>, a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic almost exactly like COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Event 201 was hosted in October 2019\u2014just two months before the coronavirus was first revealed in Wuhan\u2014by the Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg, and Johns Hopkins. As with the Event 201, the participants at the Monkeypox simulation have thus far been stone silent as to their having participated in a pandemic simulation the facts of which happened to come true in real life just months later.<\/p>\n<p>One person who was present at both Event 201 and the Monkeypox simulation is George Fu Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control. At event 201, Gao specifically raised the point of countering \u201cmisinformation\u201d during a \u201chypothetical\u201d coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2FMichaelPSenger&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NlbnNpdGl2ZV9tZWRpYV9pbnRlcnN0aXRpYWxfMTM5NjMiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiaW50ZXJzdGl0aWFsIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd190d2VldF9yZXN1bHRfbWlncmF0aW9uXzEzOTc5Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InR3ZWV0X3Jlc3VsdCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1508874727565058051&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbrownstone.org%2Farticles%2Fmonkeypox-was-a-table-top-simulation-only-last-year%2F&amp;sessionId=933e64c4e58af320ac13bc92b5d7946a5a783b72&amp;siteScreenName=brownstoneinst&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=c8fe9736dd6fb%3A1649830956492&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1508874727565058051\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s Gao at Event 201 right next to our very own Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence\u2014technically the highest-level intelligence official in the United States. Look at these cuties. Doesn\u2019t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy? Phew. Making Kim Philby jealous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8204\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/https-bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-public-images-e4791529-27a9-4a86-937f-644996facff9_362x380.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"380\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>That said, I won\u2019t sit here and debate wild conspiracy theories that there might be anything unusual about a global pandemic occurring just months after a simulation of a global pandemic of exactly that kind, followed shortly after by the first-ever global outbreak of an even-more-obscure virus just months after a simulation of an outbreak of exactly that kind.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be a good American and make a six-figure salary\u2014or be friends with people who make six-figure salaries\u2014then do as your government tells you: Sit down, shut up, stay home, save lives, take your shots, show your papers, and muzzle your kids.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/monkeypox-was-a-table-top-simulation-only-last-year\/\">https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/monkeypox-was-a-table-top-simulation-only-last-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}