American Bioweapon - Part 3C
US Bioweapon
There’s an old adage that says those who shout loudest usually have the most to hide. So if a still yet unexplained origin is accompanied by an aggressive and seemingly coordinated US media campaign to implicate China, who is hiding something? Is there a third possibility we’re not being shown? And if so, why has a media that is so willing to promote fringe theories when they implicate China, be deafeningly silent on this third possibility?
To have a chance at answering this, we need to review five peculiarities that might tip the balance of probabilities from accidental release of a lab-made virus into the realm of deliberate attack.
Peculiarity 1: Foreknowledge
The virus appeared immediately after the World Military Games in Wuhan, at the height of US-China tensions and trade war, right before lunar new year. The new year initiates the largest annual mass migration in the world, with billions of Chinese dispersing throughout the country and world to visit family. The circumstances are fishy. But suspicious circumstances alone are not evidence of an attack.
But what rises above the level of circumstance is how two weeks before the first known case, US intelligence was apparently able to detect such alarming evidence of a novel coronavirus by satellite that they found it necessary to alert allies. Let’s repeat that again. At least two weeks before the first known case began showing symptoms in Wuhan, which themselves weren’t even discovered by researchers until January, the US had uncovered such compelling evidence of a potential pandemic in a metropolis larger than New York City, that they secretly alerted NATO and Israel. (Source 1) (Source 2)
It’s difficult to overstate the absurdity of such a claim given the available evidence circulating in China at the time. Either a massive wave of cases occurring during early November was seamlessly covered up and has gone undetected by all international researchers ever since, or this has all the hallmarks of an intelligence fabrication. And the US is certainly no stranger to using intelligence fabrications to sway public opinion, particularly in the cause of building popular support for otherwise unpopular aggression. Given this history, we’re left to wonder why US intelligence would go to the effort of manufacturing a report about a disease outbreak well before they could have conceivably known one would emerge? Or viewed another way, how did US intelligence have foreknowledge that even the Chinese authorities didn’t have? And if they did have months of foreknowledge, why did they not then warn the world or even prepare themselves?
Peculiarity 2: Iran
Lost to the memory hole of the early days of the pandemic, few seem to remember that weeks before the outbreak reached the US, Iran became the second global epicenter after Wuhan and alongside Northern Italy. And while an outbreak in Italy, a country where over 300k Chinese people live and work and presumably returned for the new year, is understandable, less than 3k Chinese live in Iran. More suspicious still, and seemingly unique among the subsequent outbreaks, was how Iranian government officials in particular were especially hard hit, with American media gleefully reporting that 10% or more of Iran’s parliament had fallen ill during the early days of the pandemic.
While unrestrained displays of smug satisfaction over the deaths of a sovereign nation’s elected leaders are nausea-inducing on their own, taken in context of how the US had outrageously lured a beloved Iranian general into being assassinated on Iraqi soil just two months prior, the mundane inhumanity of American foreign policy is often difficult to bear.
It’s understandable to be skeptical of the idea that the US would launch a covert biological attack against not just one geopolitical foe but two simultaneously. But anyone familiar with America’s history of assassinating Iranian officials or covertly sabotaging their nuclear program with schemes too implausible for Bond movies can be forgiven for raising their eyebrows at this seemingly incongruous second epicenter.
Peculiarity 3: Event 201
It’s hard to believe now, but prior to the pandemic there was widespread confidence in the superiority of the US’s public health infrastructure and, more specifically, their capacity to repel a pandemic. And almost unbelievably, this superiority was trialed in a war-games like dry-run during a “Coronavirus pandemic dress rehearsal" staged in New York City a mere month and a half before the first case emerged in Wuhan.
Ominously titled Event 201, the convention was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the CIA, among others, and simulated a novel zoonotic coronavirus that had been transmitted from bats, to pigs, onto humans, with no prospect of a vaccine within a year, and leading to 65-million deaths worldwide after 18-months. An excerpt from the Johns Hopkins November 2019 press release includes the following tidbit:
“For Event 201, the experts added a new layer of realism by reaching beyond government and NGOs to leaders in the private sector and business community. Participants included representatives from NBCUniversal, UPS, and Johnson & Johnson.”
It’s hard not to draw connections between this corporate convention on profiting off of a global crisis and vaccine imperialism, a new phenomenon of aggressively for-private intrusions into public healthcare systems worldwide. And a key figure in the middle of this phenomenon is none other than Gates himself.
Unsubstantiated theories around Gates abound, but nonsense conspiracies of “vaccine microchips” actually serve to obscure the very real harm Gates has done to public health systems worldwide. His tireless work building intellectual property fences around publicly developed health technology globally is part of an unbroken legacy extending back to his days building the Microsoft empire, a corporate monopoly founded on patenting the intellectual property in open-source early internet tools developed at public universities.
Is it weird that Gates was at the center of a pandemic preparedness convention for the private sector? Not in the least, it would be weird if he wasn’t. But the timing and focus of the event is undeniably quite a coincidence.
Peculiarity 4: Fort Detrick
The Manhattan project to develop the first nuclear weapon cost 23 billion in today’s dollars and employed more than 130,000 people. But despite this gargantuan undertaking, it was shrouded in a blanket of secrecy, with only a few dozen men in the entire country knowing the project’s full purpose. Despite this, the project is well known today because the end product of the program was showcased for all the world to see when two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan. The millions of hours of research, testing, and manufacturing that it had taken to produce the first nuclear weapons was impossible to keep concealed from view once the metaphorical genie was out of the bottle.
But what if there was another program, one which received funding on par with the Manhattan project but few today have ever heard of? What if the products of this program could unleash a destructive potential that in many ways surpassed a nuclear bomb, but without the accompanying mushroom cloud? What if that program began alongside the Manhattan Project but was still in operation today?
Indeed there is such a program, and it’s known today as the US Biowarfare Program at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
While mentions of the Wuhan Institute of Virology yields twice as many search results as Fort Detrick, search trends are tilted in the opposite direction, with substantially more search interest in Fort Detrick. This sharp disconnect between what is reported on and what the public is keen to learn more about is one aspect of a growing media gap surrounding Fort Detrick.
It's understandable that people are interested in learning more about a facility that has been doing intensive research into infectious diseases and biological weapons since WW2. And yet the only time it’s ever mentioned in western press, if at all, is to remind the public that any calls for Fort Detrick to be investigated are nothing more than a “Chinese disinformation campaign”.
And the silence is strange given that as recently as mid 2019, several serious safety violations were documented at Fort Detrick to the point of causing a multi month shut down. A FOIA request of the CDC report detailing these safety violations described a failure to "implement and maintain containment procedures sufficient to contain select agents or toxins" in biosafety Levels 3 and 4 laboratories. For reference, biosafety Levels 3 and 4 are the highest levels of containment, requiring special protective equipment, air flow and standard operating procedures. Most strikingly, the report includes a large section redacted to protect against the release of information that would “endanger public health or safety”.
So we have a top secret government run bioweapons research lab that quietly resumed gain-of-function experiments on SARS-associated coronaviruses and was shut down in August 2019 due to a series of major safety violations, remaining closed until November. Does it not seem odd that our press didn’t find Fort Detrick worthy of investigation? After the hundreds upon hundreds of pieces that have been written about the WIV lab leak, why have we not seen a single media outlet earnestly examine the history of our domestic bioweapons lab, especially one with such a storied history? Why has there been almost exclusive focus in western press on examining a lab leak theory built solely on debunked claims about the WIV when all of the aforementioned information about Fort Detrick is publicly available?
Peculiarity 5: Pre-Wuhan US cases
Given how effective they are at spreading, respiratory illnesses are some of the most common diseases that afflict humans. In the case of a novel respiratory illness, it can be very difficult to see amongst all that noise, no matter where it first emerges.
In the summer of 2019, months before any outbreak was detected in Wuhan, mysterious clusters of respiratory illnesses began appearing near Fort Detrick. The first outbreak began on June 30 at the Greenspring Retirement Community in Fairfax County, VA, about an hour drive away. Symptoms included coughing, fevers, and pneumonia, with 60 people becoming infected and 3 dying. The CDC deemed this outbreak notable enough to investigate, and tested 17 samples from residents who had gotten sick. Unfortunately, no common link was found that could identify what the mystery illness was.
Two weeks later and a 15 minute drive away a second outbreak sprang up at Heatherwood Retirement Community in Burke, VA. Again there were a number of cases of respiratory illness; 25 this time, and no deaths. While communicable illnesses sweeping through residences for the elderly are not an uncommon occurrence, respiratory outbreaks in the middle of summer are unusual, and represent the only two recorded instances in national news that summer.
But two isolated outbreaks don’t equal an unchecked novel pandemic. For that, we need to take a much broader view. Like the 2019 flu season. At the end of October in Maryland, for example, there was an unusually active flu season with only 4 of the 32 cases sent for PCR testing at state labs testing positive. By February, Maryland’s Frederick Health Hospital had tested about 3,600 patients for the flu, with only about 22% coming back positive. More intriguing still is the number of patients that reported to the ER with Influenza Like Illnesses (ILI), a catch all categorization for patients with symptoms like fever, dry cough, body aches, and nausea. Compared to the previous three years, the number of people showing up to the ER with ILI was 2 - 3 times higher for the months of December 2019 - January 2020.
But again, flu seasons ebb and flow. One unusually active year isn’t proof that a novel virus was spreading. What we really are looking for is definitive evidence of confirmed spread which precedes or challenges the Wuhan timeline. Short of using a time machine to travel to December 2019, we’ll have to settle for the next best thing: time capsules.
Positive Donated Blood Samples
A study of blood samples taken in nine states between Dec 2019 - Jan 2020 showed 1.4% of samples already had SARS-2 antibodies. This point bears repeating. 1.4% of randomly selected blood samples collected in the US during the months when SARS-2 was supposedly just beginning to emerge in Wuhan had pre-existing SARS-2 antibodies. Since there were no vaccines at that time, the only way to develop SARS-2 antibodies was through exposure to the virus. If 1.4% is extrapolated to the whole US population, that equates to millions of prior exposures. When considered alongside the two weeks it takes to develop antibodies, the genesis of the spread, assuming a point origin, would have to have been months prior.
Is it possible that those who gave blood samples, for whatever reason, were a non-representative sample? As in they were more likely to have been infected than the average person? Sure, that’s definitely possible, likely even. But even if we assume a 10:1 skew in the direction of over-representing the USA-wide prevalence, that is still hundreds of thousands of cases that can’t be accounted for under the accepted timeline.
So was the virus circulating in the US before it began circulating in China? Who knows. Basic viral testing can only identify known viruses, and Federal policy during the early days was to make testing virtually inaccessible. Up until early March, FDA regulations had made mass testing so tough to deploy that the entire country was averaging fewer than 100 tests a day. And those it was made available to? People who had just returned from China. So is it any wonder then, that the arrow only points one direction?
But if true, if the virus actually was circulating in the US in the summer/fall of 2019, doesn’t this then contradict the whole premise of COVID-19 being a bioweapon? Not in the slightest. A bioweapon that began spreading in the US prior to being brought over to China simply confirms the wielder of the weapon, like the gunpowder residue of a recent gunshot left on the hand of the one who pulled the trigger.