'CladeX' - A 2018 John Hopkins Pandemic Exercise - It's Very Dramatic

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Hi everyone, alright now it is March 11 2020. I just got this link from a subscriber whom I really want to thank. Klaid X, another exercise. 2018, John Hopkins, there's John Hopkins again, the Center for Health Security, what was this exercise? Well, it was a pandemic. Table, top, exercise, May 15, 2018, Washington, D.C., the purpose of the exercise was to illustrate high-level strategic decisions and policies that the United States and the world will need to pursue in order to prevent a pandemic or diminish its consequences should prevention fail. Wow, they sure have had an awful lot of time to consider, to study, to research, to plan, and isn't it amazing? Isn't it amazing? How the experts, mainstream media, government officials, oh that CDC, everybody just seems to be bumbling idiots. Okay, yeah, I will link below. Dark winter, yeah, the two previous exercises were dark winter and Atlantic storm. All right, let me play just these four minutes of this, well, Washington Post, I guess, their brief summary of this pandemic exercise. Day is really to illustrate the potential consequences of a pandemic, think about the challenges that would pose, and also to consider some policy solutions that would improve those outcomes. The scenario obviously is fictional, but it is well researched and we've faced it on epidemiologic modeling, public health principles, and an assessment of past outbreaks. The first cases of the outbreak seemed appeared sorry for approximately four weeks ago, and in Caracas approximately two weeks ago. Here are the numbers. In Frankfurt and Caracas, the illness has killed an estimated 50 people. There are 400 confirmed or probable cases. We have a second serious problem to attend to in this discussion. We got confirmation yesterday of the first U.S. Clay X cases, appearing in Massachusetts. I thought you'd say the first cases appeared about a week ago in a dorm at East Workshare College, but they were mistakenly diagnosed as viral meningitis. Now test confirmed, the small college town is instead dealing with clayed X. The Berkshire County public health officer has issued a quarantine order for the college. Under this order, 800 students, 40 faculty, and 50 support staff may not leave the school grounds for two weeks. A second major outbreak of clayed X has been reported in the SESTA, Maryland. In addition to the two deaths, 49 people are currently hospitalized, 19 in Maryland, and 30 in DC. The administration is doing its best to message CDC, HHS, and others are doing its best to make people aware of what's going on, to tell them what we know, what we don't know, but it is of course very stressful to the public. We need a very clear chain of command either up to the obviously up to the present, whether he's making a lot of these decisions directly or deputizes it to somebody. Jordan is requesting that it's allies, including the US, send forces to help the government take back the city of Mawfrough and secure the northern border against terrorist forces coming in from Syria. If Jordan becomes a failed state, it is potentially catastrophic. How does this scenario play out? We're going to jump ahead 10 months to July 2019. The World Health Organization estimates that 150 million people have died. In the US, we've been in estimated 82 million severe cases and 15 million deaths. It was only by nationalizing the health care system that basic medical care is still available. The government now pays for controls and rations all medical care. The president remains in critical condition and all the vice president is out of intensive care. He remains unable to assume his constitutional duties. One-third of the US Congress is dead or incapacitated. As are two members of the Supreme Court, Hanson remembers the administration. The nagging question, what would have happened if we had a vaccine many months earlier? If the first vaccine had worked and started to be deployed at six months into the pandemic, the US death toll could have been reduced from an anticipated 20 million to six million. So very quickly, from each of you, one thing government could should do, our government, other governments, to make this work better. Develop the plan. Develop the plan in implement. Let the private companies do it, but understand that this is a national security and very mega plan to have the federal and state resources work. He's a lady, I suppose, to add off to the journey. Keep up our international partnerships. The plan not only table top exercises domestically but internationally. I agree with Tara Stockpile in and develop the capability to go from bug to drug to this particular agency. Wow, wow. President sick, vice president. Oh, getting better, but still can't perform. Judy's a third of Congress, dead two Supreme Court justices, 20 million Americans. Oh, well, let's just watch how this pandemic scenario plays out. The one we're living, I mean. All right, here is a page where you can check out all of the segments. And well, I'm sure tomorrow I will check it out too, but I thought it was interesting. Here, they're introducing the players. Well, she is introducing the players. And well, the first player was John Belinger, a name that I have heard, but I was unsure, who is this John? Who is this John? John Belinger. Oh, at John, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. Well, that's not all. He's a government guy. American lawyer who served as a legal advisor for the US Department of State and the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration. Maybe he was involved in doing that or well in double speak thing, you know. Oh, it's not torture. It's enhanced interrogation. That's what it is. Oh my God, man. This is really pretty, it's just intense what we're living. Here's the media coverage. Why another flu pandemic is likely just a matter of when. And these were articles years ago. So, this didn't blind side us, Mr. Trump didn't blind side us. That's what he said today, you know, about that economy. Well, this just blindsided us. You know, it's kind of like, you know, oh God, what's her name when she testified? Ooh, Secretary of State, George W. Bush. Condi Rice. That's right. What did she say? Well, no one could have imagined that somebody would fly a plane into a building when they were actually alerted to that just a few weeks before. Okay. Well, yeah, that's our government and where are the American people? Hello, Waga. Hey, smell the coffee. Things aren't going very well here in our country. The New Yorker, the terrifying lessons of a pandemic simulation. It's fiction, but America just wiped out by a man-made terror term. And it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And that's just one exercise. And there have been so many. What are we living? All right, all links are below. Have a good night. Have a good day tomorrow. Stay safe. Keep that immune system strong. And well, hang in because I think this is, well, look, it's gone on for way too long as far as I'm concerned. I'm already done. You know, let's get on to the next event. But I think this is going to be, well, let's just say they moved us to another ride. And this one is pretty scary. And it's going fast. It's got a lot of dips and turns. You got to hold on.