Guest Post by Jordan Schachtel
Just weeks prior to the onset of COVID Mania, some of the most maniacal, power hungry forces on the planet got together to war-game a fictional coronavirus outbreak passing from an animal reservoir to humans with “no possibility of a vaccine being available in the first year,” warning of a “similar pandemic in the future.”
On October 18, 2019, that simulation, called Event 201, occurred in New York City through the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Organizers gathered influential “public health experts,” along with top government officials from around the world, and made sure to have plenty of legacy media press on hand. The simulation’s flashy video package came prepared by Interface Media Group, which has worked on projects for the likes of CNN, PBS, and HBO, with a series of segments from a fictional GNN network, complete with talking heads discussing the catastrophic pandemic.
