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FakeBillGates's avatar

And it escaped from the bio weapons lab in Ukraine when Russian invasion forces accidentally released it…the story practically writes itself!

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Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

This could be the reason US funding of monkeypox research by Russia's premier bioweapons lab is being memoryholed.

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Rikard's avatar

It is an unfortunate side-effect of training, having exercises and doing drills that the plans for those also looks like plans to actually set the scenario up as real. It's like doing a hand-book on poisonous plants - it can just as easily be used to find them and use them for nefarious purposes, as it can be used as intended.

If we don't war-game, which is the origin of all such exercises, we have no clue what to do when something actually happens, regardless of cause.

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Jestre's avatar

That's true. I'm no stranger to it. I've worked in a couple fields where we regularly performed this sort of training. For what it's worth, tabletop type exercises are mostly used for most likely scenarios. Terrorist attack seems likely based on the fact that it just happened, but monkeypox, a pretty obscure virus, is oddly specific.

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Rikard's avatar

Corkscrew logic maybe?

"Hey, what virus shall we use for the upcoming exercise? Should we use something well-known, or pick something a bit different and visually scary?"

"I say let's go with odd, obscure and from Africa, that's always good because people think "Ebola" no matter what."

"Right, how about 'monkeypox', that ones pretty obscure, not very many cases per year and it looks horrible untreated?"

"Let me check (...) Perfect, monkeypox it is!"

Could be, or not. Then again, training and doing exercises like this also creates a yearning to use what you've learned. Sort of training a dog to stalk and mark game, and then never going hunting, just perpetually training it. Imagine the dog's psyche.

Of course, if one wants to find a consoiracy, one will find a conspiracy. It follows the same logic as any witch-hunt or inquisition/huddud.

Edit: and people insisting that coincidence is proof of conspiracy are very useful tools for the intelligence community and anyone working towards undermining criticism of the system in place. It is by far better to let all the outrageous ideas out there: that way your people in the media can pick-choose how and who the faces of any issue will be, and thus what the issue will look like to the greater public. Not that you do that, but check below.

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Jestre's avatar

Absolutely possible, even probable. Tbh, I am not claiming a conspiracy here, mostly pointed to the document in jest. But if we find out this strain of monkeypox came from a lab and some of the people in the exercise are connected to it... Then I'll change my tune 😂

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Rikard's avatar

It sure is coming close to the point finding the kid with the hand in the cookie jar, grabbing a cookie so the hand is stuck, while saying "Wasn't me, don't know 'bout no cookies!" /smiley face/

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

What we focus on we move toward. Physical truth. If you talk about the Devil all day, you do not become more like God. Rehearsals are usually for a performance. Plandemic preparedness became Plandemic within months. What a coincidence!

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Carlos Santiago's avatar

I remember when there was an exercise for hijacked planes, and on the same day some planes supposedly got hijacked and flown into buildings. Then there was an exercise about subway attacks, and what do you know? A subway gets attacked.

Then, we get pandemic exercises, and everybody knows what happens next.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Sure Rikard. Sure, sure.

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Ms. P's avatar

Considering it is not supposed to be easily transmitted, I am suspicious and angry. This is what happens when people who could have done something, put their heads down and pretend to see no evil. They too will suffer if this turns out to be the next plague that's been engineered to bring the free world to its knees.

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Richard Seager's avatar

The only plague is the injected one. Don't get injected and there won't be a plague.

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Jens Happel's avatar

Isn't "conspiracy theory" already a synonym for "spoiler"?

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Jestre's avatar

Conspiracy theorists are those that call an event a conspiracy which later turns out to be a conspiracy.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

Wait, wait, wait, I think I've seen this plot before.

Let's see, it goes something like this:

Step 1, do secret gain of function research to create a "novel" virus

Step 2, create a vaccine, in secret, that should "cure" the virus illness

Step 3, release the virus on an unsuspecting public

Steps 4-8, talk about Scince, bunch of plot filler, look concerned, have affairs, lock down kids, make everyone else wear a mask, don't have the hero wear a mask on TV (too beautiful)

Step 9, Go warp speed to "develop" a vaccine, skip the trials, too long and boring for the hero genius, plus, who cares, the hero is a genius

Step 10, inoculate the world

Step 11, uh oh, lots of new deaths and diseases

Step 12, find out that vaxx development was garbage and actually kills more than the original virus

Step 13, Declare a permanent State of Emergency, for everyone, except the hero, his billions preclude safety

Step 14, keep talking up the lifesaving vaxx, focus on how bad it could have been without the Science

Step 15, start all over again at Step 1

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Jestre's avatar

You forgot the "profit" step 😂

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

Nah, this was all for humanity!!!

I also forgot the part where some of the unhealthiest looking people in the world, talk daily, about health.

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Rikard's avatar

They could at least have the dignity to look to the camera and say: "Do as I say not as I do, why you think I look like this because I follow my own advice?"

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Jens Happel's avatar

I miss the part in which all non belivers are excommunicated and burnt on the stake. Sorry I was in the wrong time line. I mean when non belivers are called deniers, antisemit or Nazis got their assets in their paypal account freezed and the account blocked, their Wikipedia articles "adjusted" and kicked out of their jobs... I am sure I forgot something.

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