Event 201

[Eleora]

There is a conspiracy theory out there that Event 201 is a prediction of the covid19 outbreak. Here is a link to Event 201 https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/


The conspiracy theory goes like this, when the Elite do something it's their code of conduct to also tell people what they are doing hence why Event 201 was made. Their plan is take away freedom of speech and to use the virus outbreak as a means of implementing new laws that will enable them to eventually accomplish their New World Order as this video states, the video also pulls up a website @ 12:35 minutes in to 13:50 minutes in I do not understand that part could someone please elaborate? And provide some tools for a better understanding of it and how to debunk it.



How can this entire theory be debunked. And what type of tools and verbiage could a person use to debunk it with those who believe it?

 

[Mendel]

There is a conspiracy theory out there that Event 201 is a prediction of the covid19 outbreak. Here is a link to Event 201 https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

From the website:

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise

In recent years, the world has seen a growing number of epidemic events, amounting to approximately 200 events annually. These events are increasing, and they are disruptive to health, economies, and society. Managing these events already strains global capacity, even absent a pandemic threat. Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.

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Basically, governments and institutions all over the world have been prudent and used past pandemics as impetus to plan for the next one: after SARS, MERS, Ebola, Swine Flu, it was kind of inevitable that a new epidemic would come along, and the potential for it to be not contained and develop into a pandemic was already apparent. It would be foolish to not plan a response to these challenges (and more foolish to not heed these plans once the pandemic had reared its head, but I digress).

These plans and planning events for a predictable future are now produced as "proof" of a "prediction", when all they are is evidence of people in responsible positions employing forethought.
These claims all insinuate that "planning an epidemic response" and "planning an epidemic" are the same thing, and that preparing for an outbreak and predicting an outbreak are the same thing.
As an analogy, does keeping a standing army mean you know what the next war is going to be, and when? Do the military exercises we do in peace time indicate what kind of war we want? No, they indicate what kind of conflict we think is going to be likely, and if we were smart, our guess was somewhat close to the actual future. That's natural and desired, but it isn't proof that we planned a war. It just means we planned for a war.

We did not plan an epidemic, we planned for an epidemic. Because it's the smart thing to do.

 

[deirdre]

How can this entire theory be debunked.

Their plan is take away freedom of speech and to use the virus outbreak as a means of implementing new laws that will enable them to eventually accomplish their New World Order

The theory can't be debunked. Event 201 can be explained (as Mendel just did) and you can present multi examples of other exercises from previous years after Sars 2002 that would show that "yes, it is a coincidence this exercise on October 18, 2019 was a few weeks before the Covid pandemic".

i dont want to watch the whole video
but basically his claim in your youtube video is that "this is a wild coincidence"

3:25 Now back to event 201. I find this extremely fascinating, because this pandemic simulation exercise of the coronavirus took place about 6 weeks before the first illness from the illness was actually reported in wuhan china. [he shows article from jan 25, 2020]. Now that is one hell of a coincidence if you ask me. I'm not sure if you believe in that kind of thing, i have a hard time believing in coincidences"

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the video also pulls up a website @ 12:35 minutes in to 13:50 minutes in I do not understand that part could someone please elaborate?

the clip shows a patent owned by the CDC (United States health agency) for isolated SARS-COV (the 2002 SARS outbreak) virus from humans.

SARS-COV is not Covid-19. SARS (2002) was a scary outbreak you can learn about on Wikipedia or by googling about it.

Your clip says

13:20 "so instead of keeping up the maintenance fee, they just released a new virus"

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which is just total bunk. first noone releases a virus. second he provides no proof anyone released the virus.

The youtuber also seems to think it is a new virus. it's not it is the SARS-COV virus (2002).

the tools you need are google. Google "patent [then name of patent]" and you get the patent you can read
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7220852B1/en

(btw, filed DURING the SARS 2002-2003 outbreak)

SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

A newly isolated human coronavirus has been identified as the causative agent of SARS, and is termed SARS-CoV. The nucleic acid sequence of the SARS-CoV genome and the amino acid sequences of the SARS-CoV open reading frames are provided herein.

This disclosure provides methods and compositions useful in detecting the presence of a SARS-CoV nucleic acid in a sample and/or diagnosing a SARS-CoV infection in a subject. Also provided are methods and compositions useful in detecting the presence of a SARS-CoV antigen or antibody in a sample and/or diagnosing a SARS-CoV infection in a subject.

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[Eleora]

I received a message that I must edit this post as it breaks community guidelines, I am trying to figure out a way to that now.

 

[deirdre]

I received a message that I must edit this post as it breaks community guidelines, I am trying to figure out a way to that now.

you can speak to the moderator, if you have questions, by responding to the message in your Metabunk Inbox

 

[Mendel]

I received a message that I must edit this post as it breaks community guidelines, I am trying to figure out a way to that now.

It's a good exercise: thinking about "what exactly is the claim" and "what exactly is the evidence they claim to have" are among the first questions you need to answer when you want to deal with something like that on your own!

 

[Eleora]

Yes I honestly find it hard at times to even figure out what is being said and to put into words. Its something I need to work on. My head is mush right now so much stuff being thrown at me and it takes a lot of time to answer and debunk these things. Wish I could do it like you guys.

 

[deirdre]

Yes I honestly find it hard at times to even figure out what is being said and to put into words. Its something I need to work on. My head is mush right now so much stuff being thrown at me and it takes a lot of time to answer and debunk these things. Wish I could do it like you guys.

Metabunk is good training. you just have to practice. I'm still a bit scatter brained, but I was much more scatter brained before i started on Metabunk.

 

[deirdre]

It's a good exercise: thinking about "what exactly is the claim" and "what exactly is the evidence they claim to have" are among the first questions you need to answer when you want to deal with something like that on your own!

and the topic. even coming up with a proper title (from the transcribed claim) helps you focus on the actual claim. like "event 201" tells us nothing. or "fauchi jama article".

if the title is "Claim: Bill Gates funded Event 201 pandemic simulation exercise a NWO power grab" or whatever the claim is … (why they would publicize it if it was malicious, I don't know)